Students’ Preconceptions of Professors: Benefits and Barriers According to Ethnicity and Gender

By Kristin J. Anderson, Gabriel Smith. 2005

99 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Education, Political Science and International Relations, Social Psychology

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In Education

1. R. Reason
2. Brenda R. Lutovsky Quaye
3. L. Reid
4. P. Terenzini
5. Kadian L. McIntosh
6. M. Hebl
7. Bradley E. Cox
8. Wolfgang Stroebe

In Political Science and International Relations

1. Juan M. Madera
2. L. Reid
3. P. Terenzini
4. R. Reason
5. Bradley E. Cox

In Social Psychology

1. Juan M. Madera
2. Brenda R. Lutovsky Quaye
3. L. Reid
4. P. Terenzini
5. A. Bavishi
6. Kadian L. McIntosh
7. R. Reason
8. M. Hebl

Citations in the corpus

• Pedagogical Signals of Faculty Approachability: Factors Shaping Faculty–Student Interaction Outside the Classroom (2010, result): “The current evidence is mixed, however, with at least one study finding a relationship between instructor gender and student preconceptions (Moore & Trahan, 1997) while another (Anderson & Smith, 2005) found no such relationship.”
• The effect of professor ethnicity and gender on student evaluations: Judged before met. (2010, background): “…during their college years, students’ attitudes toward ethnic minorities tend to become more open, egalitarian, tolerant, and liberal during their college years (Anderson & Smith, 2005; Hurtado, 2005; Jacobs, 1986; Lottes & Kuriloff, 1994; Spence & Hahn, 2006; Van Larr, Sidanius, & Levin, 2008).”
• The role of perceived race and gender in the evaluation of college teaching on RateMyProfessors.Com. (2010, background): “Consistent with both experimental studies examining the effect of race on teaching evaluations (Anderson & Smith, 2005) and research on actual SETs (BoatrightHorowitz & Soeung, 2009; McPherson & Jewell, 2007; Smith, 2007), the present study found that racial minority faculty were rated more poorly…”
• Examining Student Evaluations of Black College Faculty: Does Race Matter? (2011, background): “In their studies on course evaluations, Anderson and Smith (2005) and Smith and Anderson (2005) compared Hispanic and Anglo faculty and found that female Hispanic faculty received the lowest course evaluation ratings.”