evals: Teachers evaluations at the University of Texas at Austin
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The data were gathered from end of semester student evaluations for a large sample of professors from the University of Texas at Austin (variables beginning with cls). In addition, six students rated the professors' physical appearance (variables beginning with bty). (This is a slightly modified version of the original data set that was released as part of the replication data for Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models (Gelman and Hill, 2007).

evals

A data frame with 463 rows and 21 variables:

score: Average professor evaluation score: (1) very unsatisfactory - (5) excellent
rank: Rank of professor: teaching, tenure track, tenure
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 upper 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

These data appear in Hamermesh DS, and Parker A. 2005. Beauty in the classroom: instructors pulchritude and putative pedagogical productivity. Economics of Education Review 24(4):369-376. This is a slightly modified version of the original data set that was released as part of the replication data for Gelman, Andrew, and Jennifer Hill. Data analysis using regression and multilevel/hierarchical models. Cambridge University Press, 2006.

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