Assessing implicit gender bias in medical student performance evaluations

Evaluation and the Health Professions

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 365-385

  Axelson, Rick D ^a   Solow, Catherine M ^a   Ferguson, Kristi J ^a   Cohen, Michael B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

confirmatory factor analysis; gender bias; measurement; medical students; performance evaluation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; METHODOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREJUDICE; SEX FACTORS; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 77956067904     PISSN: 01632787     EISSN: 15523918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0163278710375097     Document Type: Article

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