Professor Gender, Age, and “Hotness” in Influencing College Students’ Generation and Interpretation of Professor Ratings

Professor Gender, Age, and “Hotness” in Influencing College Students’ Generation and Interpretation of Professor Ratings

Undergraduate psychology students rated expectations of a bogus professor (randomly designated a man or woman and hot versus not hot) based on an online rating and sample comments as found on RateMyProfessors.com (RMP). Five professor qualities were derived using principal components analysis (PCA)...

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Main Authors: Sara L. Sohr-Preston, Stefanie S. Boswell, Kayla McCaleb, Deanna Robertson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Laureate Education Inc 2016-09-01
Series:Higher Learning Research Communications
Subjects:
professor ratings
bias
higher education
psychology faculty
teaching
Online Access:http://hlrcjournal.com/index.php/HLRC/article/view/328

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