Student evaluations and gendered expectations: What we can't count can hurt us

Sex Roles

Volumn 53, Issue 11-12, 2005, Pages 779-793

  Sprague, Joey ^a   Massoni, Kelley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender discrimination; Student evaluations; Teaching evaluations

Indexed keywords

EID: 29844434626     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-005-8292-4     Document Type: Review

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