Considerable research has documented the positive effect of teacher expressiveness and warmth on students' evaluations of college teachers, but the effect of teacher expressiveness on student performance is less clear. To investigate the interaction between teacher expressiveness, teacher sex, and student sex, 121 college students viewed a…

Research has found that, in many performance situations, attributions of success and failure may reflect numerous experiences occurring over time. To expand this research, achievement attributions in an extended ego-involving situation, i.e., performance in an academic course, were examined. In addition to the traditional causes of effort,…

College teachers were evaluated as to appeal, competence, delivery, and teaching effectiveness and their presentations were analyzed to identify features of humor usage. Correlation coefficients were computed between frequency of use of various types of humor and students' evaluations of their professors. Results indicated differences between male…

To identify gender differences in student ratings of their instructors, college students completed a questionnaire concerning their instructor's attitudes and effectiveness. Data analysis indicated that female instructors received higher ratings than male instructors, and female students gave higher ratings than male students. Expected grade…

Finds an interaction between student gender and instructor gender on teaching evaluations in mass communication. Shows that male students rated male instructors higher and that female students rated female instructors higher. (SR)

A 21-item questionnaire was designed to determine the effects of teachers' sex, age and physical attractiveness on primary students' expectations of teacher performance. The questionnaire, administered to 144 third grade students, included photographs of male and female teachers who varied in age and physical attractiveness. The students were…

This study examined gender differences in student evaluation of teaching through two analyses. In the first, female and male student ratings in the same classes were compared for female and male instructors. In the second analysis, ratings by all male students are examined for how they differed for male and female instructors. Data came from 741…

A pilot study investigated the effect of gender on student evaluations of teachers in the field of mass communication, gauging any effects and interactions between instructor gender and student gender; whether female instructors are at a disadvantage; and whether type of course has an impact. Sixty-seven students in four upper-level mass…

Student ratings of college professors play an important role in many employment decisions. One factor strongly associated with student ratings is teacher expressiveness. A study was conducted to explore the effects of teacher expressiveness, teacher sex, and student sex on student ratings of their instructor, student perceptions of their…

College students (N=121) viewed videotaped lectures by a male or female actor using either expressive or nonexpressive communication. The expressive teacher received the highest evaluation score. The nonexpressive male teacher's students had the poorest test performance, the nonexpressive female teacher's students the highest. (Author/BS)

Male students gave lower faculty ratings than female students, but their ratings for female faculty were high regardless of the field. Female students showed a bias against women faculty in traditional fields and for women faculty in nontraditional fields. (Author/RM)

An analysis of college student attitudes indicated that male and female instructors are placed within a unitary perceptual frame of reference. However, women were perceived as warmer and more potent individuals and were required by their students to offer greater interpersonal support. (Author/GK)

Expands the literature on the educational role of immediacy by exploring the relationship between touch during student/professor interactions and students' evaluations of the professor and the interaction. Indicate that student sex, professor reward value, and location of touch have significant influence on students' evaluations of professors and…

An exploratory study examined the effect of gender on student evaluation ratings of journalism and mass communication instructors. Subjects were 8 professors (4 male and 4 female) who represented a wide range of teaching experience and taught a total of 243 students (108 women and 135 men) in 10 different types of classrooms. A total of 241…

Over 1,000 undergraduates evaluated 16 male and female professors in terms of teaching effectiveness and sex-typed characteristics. Male students gave female professors significantly poorer ratings than male professors on the six teaching evaluation measures. Female students evaluated female professors less favorably than male professors on three…