Teaching
Abundant research shows that female and underrepresented professors consistently receive lower ratings and are described using different languages in teaching evaluations, including on online review platforms (e.g., Arceo-Gomez and Campos-Vazquez, 2019; Gordon and Alam, 2021; Reid, 2010; Saygin and Zhang, 2024). Additionally, students with poor grades often use online platforms to retaliate against professors (Saygin and Zhang, 2024). Most concerning, even when female and male professors receive similar satisfaction scores on specific evaluation criteria, male professors have higher overall quality ratings in both online reviews and official evaluations (Saygin and Zhang, 2024).
Bias against female faculty is often subtle with no explicit comments about their identity. Instead, it is reflected by harsher criticism of female professors for being strict graders and classroom management (Owne, Bruin, and Wu, 2024). Unfortunately, tools commonly used to mitigate biases in official teaching evaluations have proven largely ineffective (Owne, Bruin, and Wu, 2024).
With all these in mind, I am publishing my official teaching evaluations below, as the biases on online platforms are even more pervasive and are often used as tools to "get back at" faculty.
CHERISHED moments
