Tour of research on student evaluations of teaching [7-9]: Spooren et al. 2013, Laube et al. 2007, and Stark and Freishtat 2014

Let's continue our discussion of studies in Holman et al. 2019 "Evidence of Bias in Standard Evaluations of Teaching" listed as "finding bias". See here for the first entry in the series and here for other entries.

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Spooren et al. 2013 "On the validity of student evaluation of teaching: The state of the art" is a review that, as far as I can tell, does not report novel data on unfair sex or race bias in student evaluations of teaching.

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Laube et al. 2007 "The impact of gender on the evaluation of teaching: What we know and what we can do" is a review that, as far as I can tell, does not report novel data on unfair sex or race bias in student evaluations of teaching.

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Stark and Freishtat 2014 "An evaluation of course evaluations" is a discussion that, as far as I can tell, does not report novel data on unfair sex or race bias in student evaluations of teaching.

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Comments are open if you disagree, but I don't think that any of these three studies report a novel test for unfair sex or race bias in student evaluations of teaching using a research design with internal validity. I think that these publications would be more appropriate in a separate section of Holman et al. 2019 "Evidence of Bias in Standard Evaluations of Teaching" instead of in their list of academic articles, book chapters, and working papers finding bias.