Job Evaluation and Gender: The Case of University Faculty
- 1 February 1989
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Applied Social Psychology
- Vol. 19 (2) , 174-197
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1559-1816.1989.tb00051.x
Abstract
This study examined the effects of students' and professors' sex on student evaluations of professors' teaching effectiveness. Ratings of over four hundred faculty made by over nine thousand students were analyzed. After controlling for a large number of variables, the main results showed that (a) male faculty were given significantly higher evaluations on global teacher effectiveness and academic competence than female faculty; (b) when controlling for extraneous variables, female faculty were not found to be rated as more sensitive to student needs than male faculty; and (c) when making overall, global judgments of faculty performance, students seem to place more weight on academic competence for male faculty than for female faculty.Keywords
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