David A.M. Peterson
Mitigating gender bias in student evaluations of teaching
Peterson, David A.M.; Biederman, Lori A.; Andersen, David; Ditonto, Tessa M.; Roe, Kevin
Authors
Lori A. Biederman
Dr David Andersen david.j.andersen@durham.ac.uk
Associate Professor
Dr Tessa Ditonto tessa.m.ditonto@durham.ac.uk
Associate Professor
Kevin Roe
Abstract
Student evaluations of teaching are widely believed to contain gender bias. In this study, we conduct a randomized experiment with the student evaluations of teaching in four classes with large enrollments, two taught by male instructors and two taught by female instructors. In each of the courses, students were randomly assigned to either receive the standard evaluation instrument or the same instrument with language intended to reduce gender bias. Students in the anti-bias language condition had significantly higher rankings of female instructors than students in the standard treatment. There were no differences between treatment groups for male instructors. These results indicate that a relatively simple intervention in language can potentially mitigate gender bias in student evaluation of teaching.
Citation
Peterson, D. A., Biederman, L. A., Andersen, D., Ditonto, T. M., & Roe, K. (2019). Mitigating gender bias in student evaluations of teaching. PLoS ONE, 14(5), Article e0216241. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0216241
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Apr 15, 2019 |
Online Publication Date | May 15, 2019 |
Publication Date | 2019 |
Deposit Date | Dec 5, 2019 |
Publicly Available Date | Oct 15, 2021 |
Journal | PLoS ONE |
Electronic ISSN | 1932-6203 |
Publisher | Public Library of Science |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 14 |
Issue | 5 |
Article Number | e0216241 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0216241 |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1282157 |
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© 2019 Peterson et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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