Supports the P&T Committee Chair Check-List
Learn about the principles of equitable faculty evaluation
Simulated Meeting- case studies from the Georgia Tech ADEPT website- especially useful for P&T Evaluation
Conduct an 'audit' of faculty evaluation practices and policies
Cognitive Bias:
Reading & writing letters of reference:
- Avoiding gender bias in reference writing, handout from The University of Arizona: https://csw.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/avoiding_gender_bias_in_letter_of_reference_writing.pdf
- Dutt, K., Pfaff, D., Bernstein, A. et al. Gender differences in recommendation letters for postdoctoral fellowships in geoscience. Nature Geosci 9, 805–808, 2016, https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2819
- Madera JM, Spitzmueller C, Yu H, Edema-Sillo E, Clarke MSF Research Policy 53 (2), 2024. External review letters in academic promotion and tenure decisions are reflective of reviewer characteristics
- Madera JM, Hebl MR, Dial H, Martin R, Valian V. Raising Doubt in Letters of Recommendation for Academia: Gender Differences and Their Impact. Journal of Business and Psychology, 2018; DOI: 10.1007/s10869-018-9541-1
- Schmader, T., Whitehead, J., & Wysocki, V. H. A linguistic comparison of letters of recommendation for male and female chemistry and biochemistry job applicants. Sex Roles, 57(7–8), 509–514, 2007, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-007-9291-4
- Trix, F & Psenka, C. Exploring the color of glass: Letters of recommendation for female and male medical faculty. Discourse & Society, 2003; https://doi.org/10.1177/0957926503014002277
Teaching Evaluations:
- Lehigh ADVANCE Statement on Gender Bias in Student Course Evaluation: https://advance.cc.lehigh.edu/statement-gender-bias-set
- https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2018/03/30/when-students-discriminate-against-their-female-professors/JJRpwa7HbG5QGt2M5I1DRJ/story.html
- Highly gendered terms used on Rate My Professor http://benschmidt.org/2015/02/06/rate-my-professor/
- Chávez, K., & Mitchell, K. (2020). Exploring Bias in Student Evaluations: Gender, Race, and Ethnicity. PS: Political Science & Politics, 53(2), 270-274. doi:10.1017/S1049096519001744
- Boring et al. (2016) Science Open Research, 2016, DOI: 10.14293/S2199-1006.1.SOR-EDU.AETBZC.v1
- MacNell, L., Driscoll, A., & Hunt, A. What's in a name: Exposing gender bias in student ratings of teaching. Innovative Higher Education, 40(4), 291-303. 2015. Retrieved from http://link.springer.com/journal/10755
- Mengel F, Sauermann J, Zölitz U, Gender Bias in Teaching Evaluations, J of the Euro Econ Assoc, Volume 17, Issue 2, April 2019, Pages 535-566, https://doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvx057
- Mitchell, K., & Martin, J. Gender Bias in Student Evaluations. PS: Political Science& Politics, 51(3), 648-652, 2018, doi:10.1017/S104909651800001X
- Peterson DAM, Biederman LA, Andersen D, Ditonto TM, Roe K Mitigating gender bias in student evaluations of teaching, 2019; PLoS ONE 14(5): e0216241.
- Reid, L. D. The role of perceived race and gender in the evaluation of college teaching on RateMyProfessors.com. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 3, 137-152; 2010; http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0019865
- Rosen A.S. Correlations, trends and potential biases among publicly accessible web-based student evaluations of teaching: a large-scale study of RateMyProfessors.com data, Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 43:1, 31-44, 2018, DOI: 10.1080/02602938.2016.1276155
Service:
- Armstrong, M. A., & Jovanovic, J. (2017). The intersectional matrix: Rethinking institutional change for URM women in STEM. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 10(3), 216–231. https://doi.org/10.1037/dhe0000021
- Guarino, C.M., Borden, V.M.H. Faculty Service Loads and Gender: Are Women Taking Care of the Academic Family?. Res High Educ 58, 672–694 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11162-017-9454-2
- Mitchell, S., & Hesli, V. (2013). Women Don't Ask? Women Don't Say No? Bargaining and Service in the Political Science Profession. PS: Political Science & Politics, 46(2), 355-369. doi:10.1017/S1049096513000073 and Hanasono et. Al. 2019
- O’Meara, K. Kuvaeva, A., Nyunt, G., Jackson, R. & Waugaman, C. (2017). Asked More Often: Gender Differences in Faculty Workload in Research Universities and the Work Interactions that Shape Them. American Educational Research Journal-SIA. 1-33.
Citations & Collaboration:
- Beaudry, Catherine, and Vincent Larivière. 2016. “Which Gender Gap? Factors Affecting Researchers’ Scientific Impact in Science and Medicine.” Research Policy 45 (9): 1790– 1817. doi:10.1016/j.respol.2016.05.009.
- Davies SW, Putnam HM, Ainsworth T, Baum JK, Bove CB, Crosby SC, et al. (2021) Promoting inclusive metrics of success and impact to dismantle a discriminatory reward system in science. PLoS Biol 19(6): e3001282. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001282
- Ding, Y., Zhang, G., Chambers, T., Song, M., Wang, X., Zhai, C.: Content-based citation analysis: the next generation of citation analysis. J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. 65(9), 1820–1833 (2014)
- Freeman R, Huang W (2015) Collaborating with people like me: ethnic coauthorship within the United States. J Labor Econ 33(s1):s289–s318
- Helmer, M; Schottdorf, M, Neef A, Battaglia D. Gender bias in scholarly peer review, 2017, https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.21718.012
- Lariviere V, Ni C, Gringras Y, Cronin, B, Sugimoto, C. Bibliometrics: Global gender disparities in science. Nature 504(7479):211-3; 2013 DOI: 10.1038/504211a
- Marschke G, Yu Huifeng. Last Place? The Intersection of Ethnicity, Gender, and Race in Biomedical Authorship. EA Papers and Proceedings 108(5):222-27 2018 DOI: 10.1257/pandp.20181111
- Milard B. 2014. The social circles behind scientific references: Relationships between citing and cited authors in chemistry publications, J Assoc Info Sci Tech 65 (12) https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.23149
- Milard B, Tanguy L (2018) Citations in scientific texts: do social relations matter? J Assoc Info Sci Tech 69(11):1380–1395
- Mitchell SM, Lange S, Brus H (2013) Gendered citation patterns in international relations, 14, no. 4 (2013): 485-92.
- Noble, Safiya Umoja. Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism. New York: NYU Press, 2018. Accessed November 5, 2020. doi:10.2307/j.ctt1pwt9w5
- Ross, M.B., Glennon, B.M., Murciano-Goroff, R. et al. Women are Credited Less in Science than are Men. Nature (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04966-w
- Vanclay J (2013) Factors affecting citation rates in environmental science. J Informet 7(2):265–271
- Van Noorden R (2015) Interdisciplinary research by the numbers, an analysis reveals the extent and impact of research that bridges disciplines. Nature 525:306–307
- Van Noorden R (2017) The science that’s never been cited. Nature 5552:162–164
- Assessing bias in Elite Peer review (presentation, paper forthcoming) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZP4wZZhKtHYDxmkiZ3RSYwnBg0i_51lE/view
Grants/Panels:
- Yen, J.W. De-biasing the evaluation process of in-person review panels for a postdoctoral fellowship. Nat Astron 3, 1041–1042 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-019-0835-7
- Ginther, D. K., Kahn, S., & Schaffer, W. T. (2016). Gender, Race/Ethnicity, and National Institutes of Health R01 Research Awards: Is There Evidence of a Double Bind for Women of Color?. Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, 91(8), 1098–1107. https://doi.org/10.1097/ACM.0000000000001278
Awards/leadership roles:
- Gender disparities in colloquium speakers at top universities December 2017 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115(1) DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1708414115
- CUPA-HR Professionals in Higher Education Survey, 2020: https://www.cupahr.org/surveys/professionals-in-higher-education/
- Lincoln, A., Pincus, S. & Leboy, P. Scholars' awards go mainly to men. Nature 469, 472 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/469472a