Student and Professor Similarity: Exploring the Effects of Gender and Relative Age

Autor/inn/en	Gehrt, Kenneth; Louie, Therese A.; Osland, Asbjorn
Titel	Student and Professor Similarity: Exploring the Effects of Gender and Relative Age
Quelle	In: Journal of Education for Business, 90 (2015) 1, S.1-9 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0883-2323
DOI	10.1080/08832323.2014.968514
Schlagwörter	Teacher Behavior; Personality Traits; Student Reaction; Preferences; Student Attitudes; Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance; Response Style (Tests); Gender Differences; Age Differences; Academic Rank (Professional); College Students; Predictor Variables; Correlation; Teacher Evaluation; Evaluation Research + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Teacher behaviour; Lehrerverhalten; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Schülerkritik; Schülerverhalten; Antwortverhalten; Geschlechterkonflikt; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Collegestudent; Prädiktor; Korrelation; Teacher appraisal; Lehrerbeurteilung; Evaluationsforschung
Abstract	The authors examined student responses to faculty traits. Earlier findings revealing a preference for male instructors were obtained before female faculty and students were prevalent on college campuses and may have reflected a male demographic similarity effect. It was hypothesized that students would more favorably evaluate faculty who were similar in gender and in relative age (as reflected in faculty rank). As anticipated, female students evaluated female lower ranked faculty most favorably, and male higher ranked faculty least favorably. However, male students showed mixed effects. Although their evaluations were more favorable for lower ranked male faculty, they unexpectedly did not degrade higher ranked female faculty. Discussion focuses on gender-related causal factors and implications. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10