The frequency of "brilliant" and "genius" in teaching evaluations predicts the representation of women and African Americans across fields

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Storage, Daniel ^a   Horne, Zachary ^a   Cimpian, Andrei ^a   Leslie, Sarah Jane ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; CAREER; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICS; RACE; TEACHING; ACHIEVEMENT; APTITUDE; ASIAN AMERICAN; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EVALUATION STUDY; LANGUAGE; PROFESSIONALISM; RACISM; SEXISM; STANDARDS;

ACHIEVEMENT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; APTITUDE; ASIAN AMERICANS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PROFESSIONALISM; RACISM; SEXISM; TEACHING;

EID: 84961784457     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0150194     Document Type: Article

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