October 2, 2007
A glance at the September issue of Social Science Quarterly
Student evaluations of their instructors can often reflect certain biases that professors themselves have no control over, says a study by Michael A. McPherson and R. Todd Jewell, both associate professors of economics at the University of North Texas. Given the weight that such evaluations receive in decisions regarding tenure and promotion, they ask, should evaluation scores be adjusted?
According to the study -- which is based on student evaluations from 280 masters-level courses
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