evals {statsr}

Teachers evaluations at the University of Texas at Austin

Description

The data were gathered from end of semester student evaluations for a large sample of professors from the University of Texas at Austin (variables beginning with cls). In addition, six students rated the professors' physical appearance (variables beginning with bty). (This is a slightly modified version of the original data set that was released as part of the replication data for Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models (Gelman and Hill, 2007).

Usage

evals

Format

A data frame with 463 rows and 21 variables:

score

Average professor evaluation score: (1) very unsatisfactory - (5) excellent

rank

Rank of professor: teaching, tenure track, tenure

ethnicity

Ethnicity of professor: not minority, minority

gender

Gender of professor: female, male

language

Language of school where professor received education: english or non-english

age

Age of professor

cls_perc_eval

Percent of students in class who completed evaluation

cls_did_eval

Number of students in class who completed evaluation

cls_students

Total number of students in class

cls_level

Class level: lower, upper

cls_profs

Number of professors teaching sections in course in sample: single, multiple

cls_credits

Number of credits of class: one credit (lab, PE, etc.), multi credit

bty_f1lower

Beauty rating of professor from lower level female: (1) lowest - (10) highest

bty_f1upper

Beauty rating of professor from upper level female: (1) lowest - (10) highest

bty_f2upper

Beauty rating of professor from second upper level female: (1) lowest - (10) highest

bty_m1lower

Beauty rating of professor from lower level male: (1) lowest - (10) highest

bty_m1upper

Beauty rating of professor from upper level male: (1) lowest - (10) highest

bty_m2upper

Beauty rating of professor from second upper level male: (1) lowest - (10) highest

bty_avg

Average beauty rating of professor

pic_outfit

Outfit of professor in picture: not formal, formal

pic_color

Color of professor's picture: color, black & white

Source

These data appear in Hamermesh DS, and Parker A. 2005. Beauty in the classroom: instructors pulchritude and putative pedagogical productivity. Economics of Education Review 24(4):369-376.