"That'll Be Okay,
As Long As
They're White B****es.
BTW, Death to America!"
Posted on 01/12/2016 1:18:48 PM PST by presidio9
In the wave of protests that rocked college campuses this fall, one proffered demand was the creation of a system for students to report microaggressions committed by faculty and staff.
Presumably, such reporting would be used in faculty evaluations for decisions such as granting tenure and promotions.
If new research by University of California-Berkeley and Paris Institute of Political Studies scholars is accurate, such a reporting system would disproportionately harm female instructors.
Inside Higher Ed reports that the research found "student evaluations of teaching" (SET) tend to be better at "gauging students' gender bias and grade expectations than they are at measuring teaching effectiveness" (the U.S. data came from an online course, hence the "perceived"):
In the French data, male students tended to rate male instructors higher than they rated female instructors, but little difference was observed among female students. In the U.S. data, female students tended to rate perceived male instructors higher than they rated perceived female instructors, with little difference in ratings by male students. In both cases, however, the bias still positively impacted male instructors and disadvantaged female ones.
Get that? Female students are undermining female professors with their evaluations in the U.S. This is despite students doing better on exams when their professor is a woman:
"The average correlation between instructor gender and SET is statistically significant — male instructors get higher SET — but if anything, students of male instructors do worse on final exams than students of female instructors," the paper says. "Male students tend to give male instructors higher SET, even though they might be learning less than they do from female instructors."
The U.S. data set was more precisely controlled than the French set, revealing that perceived female instructors got a "significantly lower rating" on even objective measures like the promptness of graded assignments being returned.
Should colleges set up these reporting systems against faculty, count on women to bear the brunt of complaints for insensitivity, cultural appropriation or any other innocuous remark that seems less offensive coming from a man.
Hey, but wouldn't that be ... never mind.
I assume that I would find myself sitting in the Clockwork Orange chair for concluding from this that college-aged US women are just a little bit catty (which is not the same thing as "hysterical")...
wat u say?
Whoops this whole microagression reporting system didn’t quite work out as libs planned..(ie disproportionately persecuting white males) quite the opposite in fact. Oh well, back to the drawing board.
I think we can see the problem here. The students are confused by confused instructors.
Liberals don’t give a rats arse about women. They’re just playthings for inner party members. A perk that goes with the position.
Microaggression Report #1. The instructor said “women,” not “wimmin.”
Microaggression Report #2. The instructor said “he,” not “xi.”
Microaggression Report #3. I didn’t like the way the instructor looked at me.
Microaggression Report #4. The instructor took points off because I didn’t turn in my homework.
My goodness, how could I have missed that?
Because, of course, in Berkeley one wouldn't want to assume that the "instructor" wearing a skirt, tits, long hair and makeup is any of the (currently 22!!!) possible sexual orientations until said instructor confirms this for us -but only if and when they feel safe enough to do so, of course (in which case we should thank them for sharing).
Twenty two, for Pete's sake.
#5: The professor wrote blackboard with white chalk.
When I was in HS in NYC back in the 1980's there were still places on the Lower East Side and the Bronx where wearing orange on Saint Patrick's day would get you a beating.
Probably in Boston too.
PC vs PC. May they both annihilate each other...
Microaggression = imaginaion-aggression = slightphobia = con game
"That'll Be Okay,
As Long As
They're White B****es.
BTW, Death to America!"
in cursive
This survey ignores the possibility that men instructors are harder and teach more, hence the lower grades and higher ratings. Or that the women teach less and give in to grade inflation, hence their lower ratings.
In short - it ignores gender-based performance differences, blaming sexism instead.
Even worse!!!
WHITE chalk OVER BLACK board is obvious White supremacy.
And then you erase the BLACK board!!! Genocide!!!
Somehow it’s probably even worse to use a WHITE board.
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