Student Course Evaluations & Bias: A Panel Discussion About the Impacts on Women and Faculty of Color
Summary
End-of-course evaluations from students are used by institutions making human resource decisions such as those involving tenure and promotion of faculty, as well as by individual faculty working to improve their courses. However, research has found that traditional course evaluation tools disproportionately disadvantage faculty of color and faculty who are women. Students’ biases can be reflected in the course evaluations. As a result, institutions’ reliance on these assessments can serve to reinforce the structural (dis)advantages already pervasive in academia. Join us as we discuss bias in course evaluation, what we know from the research, and envision more equitable course evaluation methods.
Panelists
Dr. Atta Ceesay, Associate Professor & Department Chair & MPA Program Coordinator, SUNY Buffalo State
Dr. Tiffany Henley, Assistant Professor, Pace Universit
Dr. Wendy Bolyard, Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Denver
Dr. Rashmi Chordiya, Assistant Professor, Seattle University
Moderators
Dr. Charlene Roach, The University of the West Indies
Ms. Jamila Frank, The University of the West Indies
Dr. Stephanie Dolamore, Gallaudet University
Hosts
ASPA Section on Public Administration Education (SPAE)
ASPA Section on Women in Public Administration (SWPA)
Accommodations
The meeting will include Automated Speech Recognition (ASR) Captioning through Zoom. Requests for additional accommodation should be made to stephanie.dolamore@gallaudet.edu by April 28, 2022.