- Speaker
- Date
- Tuesday 5 Feb 2019, 16:15 - 17:30
- Type
- Seminar
- Spoken Language
- English
- Room
- Room 3.14
- Location
- International Institute of Social Studies
On 5 February, Anna Boring will hold a Development Research Seminar at the International Institute of Social Studies on 'Reducing Discrimination in the Field: Evidence from an Awareness Raising Intervention on Gender Biases in Student Evaluations of Teaching'
Anna Boring and her co-researcher, Arnaud Philippe, have conducted a field experiment designed to reduce gender biases in student evaluations of teaching (SET).
In the first intervention, students received a normative statement reminding them that they should not discriminate in SETs. In the second intervention, the normative statement was augmented with precise information on how other students in the exact same situation discriminated against female teachers.
While the pure normative statement has no significant impact on SETs, the informative statement appears to reduce gender biases against female teachers. This effect mainly comes from a change in male students’ evaluation of female teachers.
About the speaker
Anna Boring is Assistant Professor of Economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam.