evals: Professor evaluations and beauty

In JECheadle/RSOC317L: Data Sets and Supplemental Functions from David Diez's 'OpenIntro' Textbook

Description

The data are gathered from end of semester student evaluations for a large sample of professors from the University of Texas at Austin. In addition, six students rate the professors' physical appearance. The result is a data frame where each row contains a different course and each column has information on either the course or the professor. https://www.openintro.org/stat/data/?data=evals

Usage

data("evals")

Format

A data frame with 463 observations on the following 21 variables.

score

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

rank

Rank of professor: teaching, tenure track, tenured.

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 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

Cetinkaya-Rundel M, Morgan KL, Stangl D. 2013. Looking Good on Course Evaluations. CHANCE 26(2). http://chance.amstat.org/2013/04/looking-good/

See Also

See also prof.evals and prof.evaltns.beauty.public for raw data, including individual student ratings of professors' beauty.

Examples

data(evals)

JECheadle/RSOC317L documentation built on May 15, 2019, 4:02 a.m.