Guarding Against Potential Bias in Student Evaluations: What Every Faculty Member Needs to Know

Baldwin, Tamara; Blattner, Nancy

doi:10.1080/87567550309596407

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“…Female students evaluated faculties higher than males, this could be explained by the fact that females were more motivated and had higher achievement than males, so they were more familiar with learning environment than males, so they may be accurate in evaluation than males, or it could be due to the physiological nature of females, they were more sympathy and kind compared with the males, this result was similar with the finding of Baldwin and Blattner (2003).…”

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Students Evaluation of Faculty

Thawabieh¹

2017

IES

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This study aimed to investigate how students evaluate their faculty and the effect of gender, expected grade, and college on students' evaluation. The study sample consisted of 5291 students from Tafila Technical University Faculty evaluation scale was used to collect data. The results indicated that student evaluation of faculty was high (mean = 4.14, S.D. = 0.79) and there were statistically significant differences in students' evaluation attributed to students' gender, college and expected grade in the course.

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Students Evaluation of Faculty

Thawabieh¹

2017

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“…We included a variable for faculty gender in our analysis to account for the possible impact that faculty gender has on student ratings (Baldwin and Blattner 2003). We interpreted female gender from the faculty member names.…”

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Ross

2008

Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education

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“…Dion ( 2008 ) reviewed the literature on bias and off ered advice for women faculty who must be both authoritative and nurturing. In related work, Baldwin and Blattner ( 2003 ) suggested that because SETs may be biased, alternative evaluation measures should be considered. Smith ( 2012 ) noted that SETs are used for both professional development and employment decisions, setting up tensions.…”

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Gender, Teaching Evaluations, and Professional Success in Political Science

Martin

2016

APSC

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Evaluations of teaching effectiveness rely heavily on student evaluations of teaching. However, an accumulating body of evidence shows that these evaluations are subject to gender bias. Theories of leadership and role incongruity suggest that this bias should be especially prominent in large courses. This article examines publicly available data from two large political science departments and fi nds that female instructors receive substantively and signifi cantly lower ratings than male instructors in large courses. The author discusses the implications of apparent gender bias in teaching evaluations for the professional success of female faculty. Findings of gender bias in evaluations in other fi elds also hold in political science and are particularly problematic in the evaluation of large courses.

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Guarding Against Potential Bias in Student Evaluations: What Every Faculty Member Needs to Know

Cited by 68 publications

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Gender, Teaching Evaluations, and Professional Success in Political Science

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