Hamilton College researchers tested strategies to reduce gender bias in student evaluations, but their efforts failed, highlighting how deeply ingrained bias remains.
Professors from Hamilton College set out to test interventions aimed at reducing gender bias in student evaluations. None of their strategies were effective. Their findings underscore just how challenging it is to break the cycle of gender bias , even with targeted efforts.
The results were clear: bias against female faculty remained unchanged. “We find that neither intervention significantly reduced the bias against female faculty,” the researchers conclude in their publication. Female faculty received less positive feedback than male faculty in all three groups. To be clear, the gender differences in evaluations is not because men are more skilled at teaching. “Existing evidence does not support the conclusion that men are better teachers. In contrast, there is overwhelming evidence that student evaluations of teaching contain bias against female faculty,” Owen clarified.
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