Gender and Cultural Bias in Student Evaluations

Among political scientists and others I follow on twitter, there has been a
good deal of discussion of bias in student evaluations. Since I'm retired I
don't know the situation at Temple, but it does interest me.  The most
recent study comes from Australia but Americans are welcoming it:

Shepherd et al:  Gender and cultural bias in student evaluations: Why
representation matters
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How to avoid bias, is not a topic I've worked on.

I need to say that none of the faculty whose tweets I see on this topic
moves beyond their (apparently quite justified) complaints about inaccuracy
and unfairness to consider how else, in large institutions, supervisors can
assess faculty performance.  They need to do this, I think, because we've a
responsibility to our students.  (Hearing Sara Goldrick-Rab on the radio
this morning reinforced that feeling).  And I've no idea what
*economical *means
exist to gauge faculty peformance in large programs.

Anyhow, it's fascinating.

Best,

Dan Tompkins