From Inside Higher Ed, this report about a new study involving gender bias in student evaluations of their professors:
College students’ assessments of their instructors’ teaching ability is linked to whether they think those instructors are male or female, according to new research from North Carolina State University.
In the study, students in an online course gave better evaluations to the instructors they thought were male, even though the two instructors – one male and one female – had switched their identities. The research is based on a small pilot study of one class.
Read the full article here.
H/T Becky Jacobs.
-Bridget Crawford
