Exploring Bias in Student Evaluations: Gender, Race, and Ethnicity

• Published in: PS, political science & politics Vol. 53; no. 2; pp. 270 - 274
• Main Authors: Chávez, Kerry, Mitchell, Kristina M.W.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Washington Cambridge University Press 01.04.2020
• Subjects: Academic Achievement; Bias; College faculty; Coordinators; Cultural identity; Disproportionate Representation; Distance learning; Educational evaluation; Ethnicity; Evaluative Thinking; Evidence; Females; Gender; Gender Bias; Government (Administrative Body); Internet; Males; Minority & ethnic groups; Minority groups; Online Courses; Perceptions; Personnel Selection; Quasi-experimental methods; Race; Racial Bias; Racial Identification; Racism; Research design; Sex Fairness; Stereotypes; Student Attitudes; Student Evaluation; Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance; Students; Teacher Effectiveness; Teacher evaluations; Teaching; Tenure; United States > US; Texas

Research continues to accumulate showing that in instructor evaluations students are biased against women. This article extends these analyses by examining the dynamics between evaluations and gender and race/ethnicity. In a quasi-experimental design, faculty members teaching identical online course...