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Bias in Teaching Evaluations

  • 1.  Bias in Teaching Evaluations

    Posted 11-04-2015 12:40

    Hi GDO Colleagues:

     

    Thanks to you for the following listing of articles on bias in teaching evaluations:

     

    Bonitz, Verena Sylvia, "Student evaluation of teaching: Individual differences and bias effects" (2011). Graduate Theses and Dissertations. Paper 12211.

    Jameson, Cynthia J.  What does research say about standard student evaluations of teaching (SET)?  Available on-line at: http://stemwomen.org/career/c50.pdf

    MacNell, L., Driscoll, A., & Hunt, A. N. (2015). What's in a name:  Exposing gender bias in student ratings of teaching. Innovative Higher Education, 40, 291-303.

    Martin, L. L. (2013, August). Gender, teaching evaluations, and professional success in political science. Paper presented at the American Political Science Association Chicago.

    Punyanunt-Carter, N., & Carter, S. L. (2015). Students' gender bias in teaching evaluations. Higher Learning Research Communications, 5(3), 28-37.

    Sinclair, L., & Kunda, Z. (2000). Motivated stereotyping of women: She's fine if she praised me but incompetent if she criticized me. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 26(11), 1329-1342.

     

    I also attach an annotated bibliography on the topic.

     

    My personal thanks to Marlene Le Ber, Eddy Ng, Yang Yang, Chris Brown Mahoney, and Susana Velez-Castrillon for sharing these articles and citations with us.

     

    Enjoy the rest of your week,

     

    Alison

     

    Alison M. Konrad

    Alison M. Konrad, Ph.D.

    Professor of Organizational Behaviour

    Corus Entertainment Chair in Women in Management

     

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