Bias, the Brain, and Student Evaluations of Teaching

By D. J. Merritt. 2007

118 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology

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In Cognitive Neuroscience

1. Anne Boring
2. Kathryn K. Epps
3. Mary Callahan Hill

In Developmental and Educational Psychology

1. Anne Boring
2. Kathryn K. Epps
3. Mary Callahan Hill

Citations in the corpus

• The Impact of Physical Classroom Environment on Student Satisfaction and Student Evaluation of Teaching in the University Environment (2010, background): “There also has been extensive research on variables that potentially bias student evaluation of teaching such as race, age, gender and expected grade in the class (Merritt 2008).”
• Student Evaluations of Teaching (Mostly) Do Not Measure Teaching Effectiveness (2016, background): “In the US, SET of instructors of color appear to be biased downward: minority instructors tend to receive significantly lower SET scores compared to white (male) instructors [12].”