Web-based student evaluations of professors: the relations between perceived quality, easiness and sexiness

By James Felton *, John B. Mitchell, Michael Stinson. 2004

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The effects of lecturer commitment on student perceptions of teaching quality and student satisfaction in Chinese higher education (2015, unknown): “A study by Felton, Mitchell, and Stinson (2004) found that students’ ratings of lecturer quality were strongly correlated with ratings given for course easiness and lecturer’s attractiveness.”
Does ratemyprofessor.com really rate my professor? (2008, background): “Felton et al. (2004) analyzed overall professor quality ratings as a function of easiness and sexiness ratings.”
Measuring teaching quality in higher education: assessing selection bias in course evaluations (2017, background): “19 With the notable exception of work on websites such as ratemyprofessor.com: e.g. see Felton et al. (2004, 2008); Timmerman (2008).”
RateMyProfessors com versus formal in-class student evaluations of teaching (2007, background): “…more difficult his or her class can be while obtaining high-marks on student evaluations” (p. 106).3 In an analysis involving non-sexy instructors only, Felton et al. (2004) found also that the correlation between easiness and quality grew stronger when based on increasingly more selective…”
On the Validity of Student Evaluation of Teaching (2013, background): “As identified by Felton, Mitchell, and Stinson (2004), there is a positive correlation between overall ratings and the leniency and sexiness of instructors (correlations were .61 and .30, respectively).”
How do we rate? An evaluation of online student evaluations (2009, background): “This paper contributes to the emerging literature (see Felton et al. 2004; Coladarci and Kornfield 2007) that provides information on the services and disservices of this popular website to the academic community.”
Attractiveness, easiness and other issues: student evaluations of professors on Ratemyprofessors.com (2008, unknown): “Our findings extend the research of Felton et al.(2004).”
Correlations, trends and potential biases among publicly accessible web-based student evaluations of teaching: a large-scale study of RateMyProfessors.com data (2018, methodology): “Felton et al. (2008) provided an update to the work of Felton, Mitchell, and Stinson (2004) by considering a larger data-set of 6582 faculty members and hotness scores that included both positive and negative values.”