Ausgabe 1/2010, 9. Jahrgang
Physical Attractiveness, Gender and the Evaluation of Teaching
A Replication Study of Hamermesh’s and Parker’s (2005) and Klein’s and Rosar’s (2006) Findings Analyzing Individual Data
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The paper picks up the intensively discussed issue of potential biases on students’ evalua-tions of university teaching. Based on studies of Hamermesh/Parker (2005) and Klein/Rosar (2006) the influence of a largely disregarded factor, the attractiveness of the teaching staff on the evaluation re-sults, is in the analytical focus. As well, so far in this context extensively neglected cross-gender effects and their interaction with the teachers’ attractiveness are accounted for. In order to test these hypothe-ses deduced from a theoretical model individual data are analyzed with ordered logit multilevel regres-sion models. Despite the use of different methods, existing findings can be largely replicated. On aver-age, students especially evaluate attractive male teachers’ quality of teaching significantly better. How-ever, the results are sensitive towards different model specifications. Implications of these results for theory, methodology and higher education policy are discussed.
Schlagworte
Student Ratings, Attractiveness, Multilevel Models, Ordinal Variables
APA-Zitation
Wolbring T. (2010). Attraktivität, Geschlecht und Lehrveranstaltungsevaluation: Eine Replikationsstudie zu den Befunden von Hamermesh und Parker (2005) und Klein und Rosar (2006) mit Hilfe von Individualdaten. Zeitschrift für Evaluation, 9(1), . https://www.waxmann.com/artikelART100548