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ArticleHeliyon2020

Does professors' gender impact how students evaluate their teaching and the recommendations for the best professor?

Arturo Arrona-Palacios, Kingsley Okoye, Claudia Camacho-Zuñiga, Nisrine Hammout, Emilia Luttmann-Nakamura, Samira Hosseini, Jose Escamilla

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Article in Heliyon, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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2citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
6.9field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Arturo Arrona-PalaciosWriting Lab, TecLabs, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico.
Kingsley OkoyeWriting Lab, TecLabs, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico.
Claudia Camacho-ZuñigaSchool of Enginnering and Sciences, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Toluca Campus, Mexico.
Nisrine HammoutEmines- School of Industrial Management, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Benguerir, Morocco.
Emilia Luttmann-NakamuraInstitutional Effectiveness Department, North Region ECOA, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico.
Samira HosseiniWriting Lab, TecLabs, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico.
Jose EscamillaTecLabs, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico.
Tecnológico de Monterrey · MXUniversité Mohammed VI Polytechnique · MA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study examined the impact of the professors' gender according to a student evaluation of teaching (SET) in a private university. The study took place in a private university (n = 103,833) on six different campuses in the north region of Mexico. The distribution of the professors' gender was analyzed according to semesters, campuses, and schools. Our findings suggested that when undergraduates evaluated their professors on specific criteria concerning teaching performance, they expressed their opinion regardless of the professors' gender. However, when being asked for a single overall evaluation, as whether they would recommend the professor as one of their best professors, the students tended to favor male professors over their female peers by a slight margin. While such perceptions might not be representative of the actual teaching quality, it would be interesting in the future to delve deeper into the causes of possible biases.

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EducationEducational innovationGender biasHigher educationPerformance evaluationStudent evaluation of teaching

Identifiers

PMID33134586
PMCPMC7586117
OpenAlexW3094568746

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