Student Evaluations and Gendered Expectations: What We Can't Count Can Hurt Us

By J. Sprague, Kelley Massoni. 2005

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How do we rate? An evaluation of online student evaluations (2009, background): “Students who want ease, niceness and entertainment cannot assess effectiveness in teaching in any reliable or valid way (Wachtel 1998 ; Sprague and Massoni 2005 ), as the true measure of effectiveness is learning.”
Inside the Black Box of Organizational Life: The Gendered Language of Performance Assessment (2020, background): “However, Sprague and Massoni (2005) found that even when quantitative differences in student ratings are not found, students use different language to describe their best and worst women and men teachers.”
Gender biases in student evaluations of teaching (2017, background): “While improving enthusiasm is not a time-consuming task, students’ gendered expectations may create incentives for female teachers to invest in more time-consuming dimensions of teaching, such as course preparation or more detailed feedback on homework assignments [Sprague and Massoni, 2005].”
Contrapower Harassment in Academia: A Survey of Faculty Experience with Student Incivility, Bullying, and Sexual Attention (2009, background): “Sprague and Massoni (2005) found that students asked to recall their ‘worst-ever’ professors were more likely to use hostile and pathologizing labels for women teachers they disliked (e.g., bitch, psychotic) than men; they were also twice as likely to use the term ‘unfair’ to apply to women.”
Dancing Backwards in High Heels: Female Professors Experience More Work Demands and Special Favor Requests, Particularly from Academically Entitled Students (2018, background): “students described their Bbest-ever^ female professors as nurturing, and their Bworst-ever^ female professors as rigid, mean, and unfair (Sprague and Massoni 2005).”