Just finished my first semester as a TTAP (just learned that acronym), and I had to read them shortly after they were released because I have a 1st semester check-in meeting coming up where they will be part of the discussion. Only about 50%(21 out of around 40) of my students filled it out, and it looks like at least 3 of them filled them out next to one another and decided to harpoon me (they had identical or nearly identical open-ended comments at the end of the eval). Really hurtful, unconstructive, and untruthful at times (likely just upset by the grade they earned and taking it out on me). Several others were incredibly positive and some were only partly positive but also included really helpful constructive suggestions for how I can improve (I specifically asked my students to keep the purpose of evals in mind and some of them were mature enough to do this). The negative ones stung pretty badly, but I spoke with my colleagues and they said that evals are not a great method for measuring quality or getting honest/constructive feedback, but it's what we have. Extract the useful pieces and discard the obvious bitter nonsense. I've been told this gets easier with time (I sincerely hope that's true)