Teaching Evaluations: Biased Beyond Measure
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Apr 11, 2016, 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM | Room 820, 8th Floor Barrows Hall Barrows Hall | Happening As Scheduled
Philip B. Stark, Division of Mathematical & Physical Sciences (Speaker - Featured)
Student evaluations of teaching (SET) are widely used in academic personnel decisions as a measure of teaching effectiveness. Joint work with Anne Boring (SciencesPo) and Kellie Ottoboni (UC Berkeley) shows: that SET are biased against female instructors by an amount that is large and statistically significant. This bias affects how students rate even putatively objective aspects of teaching,...