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Gender biases in student evaluations of teaching
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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.About:
This article is published in Journal of Public Economics.The article was published on 2017-01-01. It has received 296 citations till now.read more
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Student Evaluations of Teaching (Mostly) Do Not Measure Teaching Effectiveness
TL;DR: This paper showed that student evaluations of teaching (SET) are biased against female instructors by an amount that is large and statistically significant the bias affects how students rate even putatively objective aspects of teaching, such as how promptly assignments are graded.
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The extent and drivers of gender imbalance in neuroscience reference lists.
Jordan D. Dworkin,Kristin A. Linn,Erin G. Teich,Perry Zurn,Russell T. Shinohara,Danielle S. Bassett +5 more
TL;DR: It is found that women-led work tends to be undercited relative to expectations and this imbalance is driven largely by the citation practices of men and is increasing over time as the field diversifies.
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Gender Bias in Student Evaluations
TL;DR: This paper explored the relationship between gender and teaching evaluations by using both content analysis in student-evaluation comments and quantitative analysis of students' ordinal scoring of their instructors, finding that the language students use in evaluations regarding male professors is significantly different than language used in evaluating female professors.
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The extent and drivers of gender imbalance in neuroscience reference lists
Jordan D. Dworkin,Kristin A. Linn,Erin G. Teich,Perry Zurn,Russell T. Shinohara,Danielle S. Bassett +5 more
TL;DR: It is found that reference lists tend to include more papers with men as first and last author than would be expected if gender were not a factor in referencing, and this overcitation of men and undercitation of women is driven largely by the citation practices of men, and is increasing over time as the field becomes more diverse.
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Gender Bias in Teaching Evaluations
TL;DR: This paper found that women receive systematically lower teaching evaluations than their male colleagues, and that the bias is driven by male students' evaluations, is larger for mathematical courses and particularly pronounced for junior women.
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Professional achievements and gender differences among academic economists
TL;DR: For example, the authors found that women who received doctorates in economics in the 1970s had a somewhat higher rate of placement at doctoral-degree granting institutions than men but that there was no difference in the rank of the institutions for these placements.
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The role of connections in academic promotions
Natalia Zinovyeva,Manuel Bagues +1 more
TL;DR: This article analyzed how evaluators' private information and subjective biases affect evaluations in academia and found that candidates are significantly more likely to be promoted when they are evaluated by an acquainted evaluator, but the source of the premium depends on the nature of this relationship.
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Unraveling the Academic Productivity of Economists: The Opportunity Costs of Teaching and Service
TL;DR: This article investigated the relationship among research productivity, teaching, and service on the basis of individual-specific information involving approximately 715 academic economists and found that both teaching and service commitments have a significantly negative impact on the research productivity of academic economists.
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Gender and Promotion in the Economics Profession
TL;DR: For example, this paper found that female economists had lower levels of professional attainment and career advancement than did their male colleagues with similar attributes over a period from the 1960s through the early 1980s.
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Bias, the Brain, and Student Evaluations of Teaching
TL;DR: The St. John's Law Review as mentioned in this paper made a compelling case for reforming the current system of evaluating classroom performance and illuminated the cognitive processes that underlie many facets of the legal system.