What’s in a Name: Exposing Gender Bias in Student Ratings of Teaching

Innovative Higher Education

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 291-303

  MacNell, Lillian ^a   Driscoll, Adam ^b   Hunt, Andrea N ^c  

^a Department of Sociology and Anthropology ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN LA CROSSE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

gender bias; gender inequality; student evaluations of instruction; student ratings of teaching

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937970506     PISSN: 07425627     EISSN: 15731758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10755-014-9313-4     Document Type: Article

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