The role of perceived race and gender in the evaluation of college teaching on RateMyProfessors.com

Journal of Diversity in Higher Education

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 137-152

  Reid, Landon D ^a  

^a Center for Language and Brain   (United States)

Author keywords

cluster analysis; gender; race; RateMyProfessors.com; student evaluations of teaching

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956578911     PISSN: 19388926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0019865     Document Type: Article

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