Spain is not different: teaching quantitative courses can also be hazardous to one's career (at least in undergraduate courses).

ABSTRACT: Student evaluations of teaching (SETs) have become a widely used tool for assessing teaching in higher education. However, numerous investigations have shown that SETs are subject to multiple biases, one of which is particularly relevant, namely, the area of knowledge to which the subject belongs. This article aims to replicate the article by Uttl & Smibert (2017, https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3299) in a different educational context to verify whether the negative bias toward instructors who teach quantitative courses found by the authors in the US also appears in the Spanish university system. The study was conducted at the Business and Law School of the Universidad Pontificia Comillas, a private Spanish university, using two different samples. First, we analyzed undergraduate courses usi

SUBMITTER: Arroyo-Barriguete JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9165602 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature