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The Impact Of Gender Bias On Teacher Evaluations

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Running Head: THE IMPACT OF GENDER BIAS ON TEACHER EVALUATIONS THE IMPACT OF GENDER BIAS ON TEACHER EVALUATIONS Name Institution Affiliation 1 THE IMPACT OF GENDER BIAS ON TEACHER EVALUATIONS 2 Teacher evaluations by students have risen as one of the most used methods for academic institutions around the world to make various faculty decisions. Some of these decisions include the consideration for tenure extension of a teacher, salary increments promotions, as well as hiring for the teachers under probation or teaching practice (Guskey, 2010). School heads and department administrators conduct teacher evaluations to be performed by students regularly, in most cases, once or twice a semester. In this kind of assessment, students give the ratings of a teacher based on various parameters set by the institution administrators. With the increase in the reliance on the use of student evaluation of teachers, a contentious gender issue has risen and forced the attention of various sociologists and scholars. The issue is whether the student based teacher evaluation is gender biased. Gender bias is a common social vice that is described as the subjective perception that some people are better positioned to perform some task based on the masculinity of their femininity. For instance, most societies hold that boys or men are better at academics, rationality and in most cases possess socially unruly behavior while their female counterparts are socially interactive, more disciplined ...
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