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Many college courses conclude by giving students the opportunity to evaluate the course and the instructor anonymously. However, the use of these student evaluations as an indicator of course quality and teaching effectiveness is often criticized because these measures may reflect the influence of non-teaching related characteristics, such as the physical appearance of the instructor. Researchers at University of Texas, Austin collected data on teaching evaluation score (higher score means better) and standardized beauty score (a score of 0 means average, negative score means below average, and a positive score means above average) for a sample of 463 professors. The scatterplot below shows the relationship between these variables, and also provided is a regression output for predicting teaching evaluation score from beauty score.
1 | data("prof.evaltns.beauty.public")
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A data frame with 463 observations on the following 64 variables.
tenured
a numeric vector
profnumber
a numeric vector
minority
a numeric vector
age
a numeric vector
beautyf2upper
a numeric vector
beautyflowerdiv
a numeric vector
beautyfupperdiv
a numeric vector
beautym2upper
a numeric vector
beautymlowerdiv
a numeric vector
beautymupperdiv
a numeric vector
btystdave
a numeric vector
btystdf2u
a numeric vector
btystdfl
a numeric vector
btystdfu
a numeric vector
btystdm2u
a numeric vector
btystdml
a numeric vector
btystdmu
a numeric vector
class1
a numeric vector
class2
a numeric vector
class3
a numeric vector
class4
a numeric vector
class5
a numeric vector
class6
a numeric vector
class7
a numeric vector
class8
a numeric vector
class9
a numeric vector
class10
a numeric vector
class11
a numeric vector
class12
a numeric vector
class13
a numeric vector
class14
a numeric vector
class15
a numeric vector
class16
a numeric vector
class17
a numeric vector
class18
a numeric vector
class19
a numeric vector
class20
a numeric vector
class21
a numeric vector
class22
a numeric vector
class23
a numeric vector
class24
a numeric vector
class25
a numeric vector
class26
a numeric vector
class27
a numeric vector
class28
a numeric vector
class29
a numeric vector
class30
a numeric vector
courseevaluation
a numeric vector
didevaluation
a numeric vector
female
a numeric vector
formal
a numeric vector
fulldept
a numeric vector
lower
a numeric vector
multipleclass
a numeric vector
nonenglish
a numeric vector
onecredit
a numeric vector
percentevaluating
a numeric vector
profevaluation
a numeric vector
students
a numeric vector
tenuretrack
a numeric vector
blkandwhite
a numeric vector
btystdvariance
a numeric vector
btystdavepos
a numeric vector
btystdaveneg
a numeric vector
Daniel S Hamermesh and Amy Parker. Beauty in the classroom: Instructors pulchritude and putative pedagogical productivity. In: Economics of Education Review 24.4 (2005), pp. 369-376.
See also evals
for simplified version of dataset.
1 2 | data(prof.evaltns.beauty.public)
## maybe str(prof.evaltns.beauty.public) ; plot(prof.evaltns.beauty.public) ...
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