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Humanities
- ISSN: 2155-7993
- Journal of Modern Education Review
Rethinking Anonymous Students’ Teaching Evaluations as Personnel Decisions: Chinese American Women Faculty Viewpoints in US Higher Education
Ya-chen Chen1,2
(1. Columbia University in the City of New York, U.S.A.; 2. China Medical University, Taiwan)
Abstract: The original reason why US universities use anonymous students’ evaluations of faculty’s teaching was to obtain honest feedback from students; however, whether the outcome of anonymous students’ teaching evaluations should be the only personnel decision of university professors is debatable. For instance, the age-old American sociocultural tradition of racial or sexual bias resulted in most US college students’ preference for male and white faculty members according to Benjamin M. Schmidt’s research. Anonymous interviewees’ personal experience in US higher education in this article can serve as the valuable firsthand field studies or case studies of the above-mentioned issue.
Key words: Chinese American Women, glass ceiling, racial discrimination, sexual discrimination
