Biases in student evaluations of teaching

Student evaluations of teaching (SETs) serve both summative purposes (evaluating teaching performance) and formative purposes (providing feedback for improvement). However, research indicates that SETs are influenced by various biases, including those related to gender and course characteristics, which compromise their effectiveness as objective measures of teaching effectiveness. These concerns have led some institutions and academic associations to reconsider the weight of SETs in critical decisions like tenure and promotion.​

Blog posts that I have written on biases in SETs:

The Conversation

• Les évaluations des enseignements par les étudiants et les stéréotypes de genre

OFCE

• Can students evaluate teaching quality objectively? 
• Les étudiants peuvent-ils objectivement évaluer la qualité d'un enseignement ?

LSE Impact Blog

• Student evaluations of teaching are not only unreliable, they are significantly biased against female instructors
  
• Surveying student evaluations of teaching: Vital tool or flawed methodology