Document Type
Article
Publication Date
11-2015
Department
Social Work
Abstract
Student evaluations of faculty teaching are critical components to the evaluation of faculty performance. These evaluations are used to determine teaching effectiveness and they influence tenure and promotion decisions. Although they are designed as objective assessments of teaching performance, extraneous factors, including the instructors’ race, can affect the composition and educational atmosphere at colleges and universities. In this reflection, we briefly review some literature on the use and utility of student evaluations and present narratives from social work faculty in which students’ evaluation contained perceived racial bias.
Original Publication Information
This article was originally published in Reflections: Narratives of Professional Helping, volume 20, number 1, released November 2015.
ThinkIR Citation
Perry, Armon R.; Wallace, Sherri L.; Moore, Sharon E.; and Perry-Burney, Gwendolyn D., "Understanding student evaluations : a black faculty perspective." (2015). Faculty Scholarship. 15.
https://ir.library.louisville.edu/faculty/15
ORCID
0000-0002-5033-6886
Included in
Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research Commons, Race and Ethnicity Commons, Social Work Commons
Comments
This paper was also presented by Dr. Perry and Dr. Moore at The University of Louisville Celebration of Teaching and Learning sponsored by the Delphi Center, University of Louisville, in 2016.