Student Evaluation of Faculty Physicians: Gender Differences in Teaching Evaluations

Student Evaluation of Faculty Physicians: Gender Differences in Teaching Evaluations.

PURPOSE To investigate whether there is a difference in medical student teaching evaluations for male and female clinical physician faculty. METHODS The authors examined all teaching evaluations completed by clinical students at one North American medical school in the surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, and internal medicine clinical rotations from 2008 to 2012. The authors focus...

Differing Student and Faculty Perceptions of Teaching Effectiveness and the Value of Student Evaluations

Gender Bias in Teaching Evaluations

IZA DP No. 11000 SEPTEMBER 2017 Gender Bias in Teaching Evaluations* This paper provides new evidence on gender bias in teaching evaluations. We exploit a quasi-experimental dataset of 19,952 student evaluations of university faculty in a context where students are randomly allocated to female or male instructors. Despite the fact that neither students’ grades nor self-study hours are affected ...

Student evaluations: advice for novice faculty.

Student evaluations can be a valuable method to transform teaching strategies and course design in nursing education. Negative student comments are difficult to view as constructive criticism and have the potential to lead to negative changes, rather than positive, productive changes for improved instruction and course design. This article provides a glimpse of recent empirical evidence regardi...

Gender Differences in Faculty Turnover

We thank the Office of the Provost of Michigan State University, in particular Dr. Robert F. Banks and Jeanne Kropp, for providing us with the data and for helpful advice. Useful comments on a draft were received at annual meetings of the Midwest and Western Economics Associations, and during a seminar at Michigan State University. Wei-Jang Huang, Rebecca Jacobs, Ella Lim, and Ellen Maloney pro...