Student Evaluations of Teaching (SETs) have been suggested as one possible cause for low representation of women among … teaching. Even if causal estimates of gender effects are unbiased, the inference that SETs contribute to gender discrimination … gender of both teacher and student, such studies may still be biased if there is non-random allocation of teachers to …

gender and penalty to teaching very weak students are particularly strong. Use of recent and large American data** raises the …This work contributes to the literature raising concerns with the use of SET (student teaching evaluation) scores to … evaluate teaching effectiveness and to motivate or demotivate faculty tenure and promotion decisions. It shows that the non …