Exploring the personal and professional factors associated with student evaluations of tenure-track faculty
| العنوان: | Exploring the personal and professional factors associated with student evaluations of tenure-track faculty |
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| المؤلفون: | Cassidy R. Sugimoto, Vincent Larivière, Vanessa Minik, Huimeng Zhao, Dakota Murray, Nicolas Bérubé, Clara Boothby |
| المساهمون: | Université de Montréal. Faculté des arts et des sciences. École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l'information |
| المصدر: | PLoS ONE, Vol 15, Iss 6, p e0233515 (2020) PLoS ONE |
| بيانات النشر: | Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020. |
| سنة النشر: | 2020 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Male, Science and Technology Workforce, Databases, Factual, bepress|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Library and Information Science|Scholarly Communication, Economics, Social Sciences, Careers in Research, Sociology, Citation analysis, ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION, Schools, Multidisciplinary, Careers, 05 social sciences, 050301 education, Research Assessment, Faculty, SocArXiv|Education, Professions, Scale (social sciences), SocArXiv|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Library and Information Science, Citation Analysis, Spite, Engineering and Technology, Medicine, Female, Psychology, Discipline, Prejudice, Research Article, Employment, Attractiveness, Universities, Science Policy, Science, Bibliometrics, Research and Analysis Methods, Statistics, Nonparametric, Education, 0502 economics and business, Humans, bepress|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Library and Information Science, Students, Accent (sociolinguistics), Medical education, Research, Teaching, SocArXiv|Education|Higher Education, Engineers, Teachers, United States, bepress|Education, Instructors, Labor Economics, People and Places, bepress|Social and Behavioral Sciences, Linear Models, Population Groupings, 050211 marketing, SocArXiv|Social and Behavioral Sciences, Performance indicator, bepress|Education|Higher Education, SocArXiv|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Library and Information Science|Scholarly Communication, 0503 education |
| الوصف: | Tenure-track faculty members in the United States are evaluated on their performance in both research and teaching. In spite of accusations of bias and invalidity, student evaluations of teaching have dominated teaching evaluation at U.S. universities. However, studies on the topic have tended to be limited to particular institutional and disciplinary contexts. Moreover, in spite of the idealistic assumption that research and teaching are mutually beneficial, few studies have examined the link between research performance and student evaluations of teaching. In this study, we conduct a large scale exploratory analysis of the factors associated with student evaluations of teachers, controlling for heterogeneous institutional and disciplinary contexts. We source public student evaluations of teaching fromRateMyProfessor.comand information regarding career and contemporary research performance indicators from the companyAcademicAnalytics. The factors most associated with higher student ratings were the attractiveness of the faculty and the student’s interest in the class; the factors most associated with lower student ratings were course difficulty and whether student comments mentioned an accent or a teaching assistant. Moreover, faculty tended to be rated more highly when they were young, male, White, in the Humanities, and held arank of full professor. We observed little to no evidence of any relationship, positive or negative, between student evaluations of teaching and research performance. These results shed light on what factors relate to student evaluations of teaching across diverse contexts and contribute to the continuing discussion teaching evaluation and faculty assessment. |
| وصف الملف: | application/pdf |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 1932-6203 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::1ca1f81f8f640ac54ad6f2fb848f8f50 https://doaj.org/article/d4b92ce79989480cbdf3ef5d1b7f01ca |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi.dedup.....1ca1f81f8f640ac54ad6f2fb848f8f50 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 19326203 |
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