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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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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.

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

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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Student Evaluation of College Teaching Effectiveness: a brief review

TL;DR: A brief review of the existing research on student written evaluations of the teaching performance of college and university instructors can be found in this paper, where student and faculty reaction to the use of student ratings is discussed, and suggestions for further investigation are given.
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What’s in a Name: Exposing Gender Bias in Student Ratings of Teaching

TL;DR: This article found that students rated the male identity significantly higher than the female identity regardless of the instructor's actual gender, demonstrating gender bias, demonstrating the vital role that student ratings play in academic career trajectories.
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On the Validity of Student Evaluation of Teaching: The State of the Art

TL;DR: The authors provided an extensive overview of the recent literature on student evaluation of teaching (SET) in higher education, based on the SET meta-validation model, drawing upon research reports published in peer-reviewed journals since 2000.
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Double Standards for Competence: Theory and Research

Martha Foschi
- 01 Aug 2000 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a review of double standards for competence in task groups and examine how status characteristics (e.g., gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic class) become a basis for stricter standards for the lower status person, and discuss other bases for this practice, such as personality characteristics, allocated rewards, sentiments of either like or dislike.
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Shifting standards and stereotype-based judgments.

TL;DR: In this paper, Biernat, Manis, and Nelson used stereotypes that men are more competent than women, women are more verbally able than men, Whites are more verbal able than Blacks, and Blacks are more athletic than Whites to demonstrate the shifting standards phenomenon.
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