APS
30th APS Annual Convention · 2018
Professor Gender As a Moderator of the Relationship between Syllabi Word Use and Teaching Evaluations
- Charlie Su
University of California, Irvine - Elena Amaya
University of California, Irvine - Jennifer Szwed
University of California, Irvine - Laura Horan
University of California, Irvine - Berenice Serna
University of California, Irvine - Laura Moreno
University of California, Irvine - Joanne Zinger
University of California, Irvine
Abstract
Professor gender moderates the relationship between syllabi word use and teaching evaluations: For female professors, the use of exclamation points is negatively correlated with evaluation scores; however, for male professors, feeling-related words are positively correlated with evaluations, and the use of long words and periods is negatively correlated with evaluations.
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