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Of course, attractive professors may actually be better instructors,
no?
Marty Bourgeois
University of Wyoming
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From: Miguel Roig
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Subject: Do Good Looks Equal Good
Evaluations?
From Michael Renner:
A story in the
Chronicle of Higher Education that will certainly spark
discussion:
Wednesday, October 15, 2003
Do Good Looks Equal
Good Evaluations?
By GABRIELA MONTELL
Professors aren't known for
fussing about their looks, but the results of a new study suggest they may
have to if they want better teaching evaluations. Daniel Hamermesh, a
professor of economics at the University of Texas at Austin, and Amy Parker,
one of his students, found that attractive professors consistently outscore
their less comely colleagues by a significant margin on student evaluations of
teaching. The findings, they say, raise serious questions about the use of
student evaluations as a valid measure of teaching quality. See http://chronicle.com/jobs/2003/10/2003101501c.htm
for the complete story.
Prof. Hamermesh's papers on "beauty" are
available from http://www.eco.utexas.edu/faculty/Hamermesh/Beautystuff.htm.
The paper
on teaching evaluations is the last one
listed.
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Michael
J. Renner
Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
Nazareth College
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Rochester, NY 14618
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