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Gender biases in student evaluations of teaching

Anne Boring
- 01 Jan 2017 - 
- Vol. 145, pp 27-41
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This article used data from a French university to analyze gender biases in student evaluations of teaching (SETs) and found that male students express a bias in favor of male professors, despite the fact that students appear to learn as much from women as from men.
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This article is published in Journal of Public Economics.The article was published on 2017-01-01. It has received 296 citations till now.

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Perception of Biology Instructors on Using Student Evaluations to Inform Their Teaching.

TL;DR: This article found that instructors generally perceive that SET feedback has formative utility, and that most instructors have used SET feedback for formative purposes at some point, there are many elements of SET administration that they are dissatisfied with, and they suggest several ways in which SETs could be improved to yield more useable feedback that could inform their teaching.
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Measuring faculty teaching effectiveness using conditional fixed effects

TL;DR: This paper used a dataset of 48 faculty members and 88 courses over 26 semesters to estimate Student Evaluation of Teaching (SET) ratings that are conditional on a multitude of course, faculty, and student attributes.
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Detecting Objectifying Language in Online Professor Reviews

TL;DR: Two supervised text classifiers for detecting objectifying commentary in professor reviews are described and ensemble these classifiers are ensemble and the resulting model is used to track objectify commentary at scale.
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Analyzing Gender Bias in Student Evaluations.

TL;DR: It is shown that while the gender of the evaluated instructor does not seem to affect students’ expressed level of overall satisfaction with their instruction, it does strongly influence the language that they use to describe their instructors and their experience in class.
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Punishing defectors and rewarding cooperators: Do people discriminate between genders?

TL;DR: Results are robust to splitting the sample by gender: in this context, neither men nor women discriminate between genders when they are in charge of punishing defectors or rewarding cooperators.
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Role congruity theory of prejudice toward female leaders.

TL;DR: Evidence from varied research paradigms substantiates that consequences of perceived incongruity between the female gender role and leadership roles are more difficult for women to become leaders and to achieve success in leadership roles.
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Economics and Identity

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Regression Models for Categorical Dependent Variables Using Stata

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a brief tutorial for estimating, testing, fit, and interpretation of ordinal and binary outcomes using Stata. But they do not discuss how to apply these models to other estimation commands, such as post-estimation analysis.
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TL;DR: This book discusses models for ordinal and nominal independent variables, and describes the development of models for Nominal Outcomes with Case-Specific Data and its use in Stata.
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The Statistical Theory of Racism and Sexism.

TL;DR: The theory of racial and sexual discrimination in the labor market was first introduced by Arrow as mentioned in this paper, who introduced the Inflation Policy and Unemployment Theory (INPT) and introduced the first formalization of the theory in terms of exact statistical models.
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