Academic Journals
Teaching the Whole Student: Integrating Wellness Education into the Academic Classroom
Abstract: College students are increasingly reporting higher stress, which can negatively influence their personal and intellectual development. Greater academic challenges and new social experiences in college may be accompanied by stressors like mental health...
Dancing Backwards in High Heels: Female Professors Experience More Work Demands and Special Favor Requests, Particularly from Academically Entitled Students
Abstract: Although the number of U.S. female professors has risen steadily in recent years, female professors are still subject to different student expectations and treatment. Students continue to perceive and expect female professors to be more nurturing than male...
A Meta-Analysis of School Belonging and Academic Success and Persistence
Abstract: According to the U.S. Department of Education (2012), 7.4 percent of 16- to 24-year-olds in this country were out of school without a GED in 2010. Numerous studies have found evidence that supports the relationship between school belonging and academic...
The role of perceived race and gender in the evaluation of college teaching on RateMyProfessors.Com
Abstract: The present study examined whether student evaluations of college teaching (SETs) reflected a bias predicated on the perceived race and gender of the instructor. Using anonymous, peer-generated evaluations of teaching obtained from RateMyProfessors.com, the...
Teaching Anthropology through Performance
The paramount purpose of an undergraduate anthropology course is to help students become aware of, and challenge, their ethnocentric assumptions about others. Ethnographic study has been our major tool for accomplishing this, a method that aims to draw students "into...
Science faculty’s subtle gender biases favor male students
Abstract: Despite efforts to recruit and retain more women, a stark gender disparity persists within academic science. Abundant research has demonstrated gender bias in many demographic groups, but has yet to experimentally investigate whether science faculty exhibit...
Are teachers’ expectations different for racial minority than for European American students? A meta-analysis.
Abstract: Four quantitative meta-analyses examined whether teachers' expectations, referrals, positive and neutral speech, and negative speech differed toward ethnic minority students (i.e., African American, Asian American, and Latino/a) as compared with European...
Bias in Online Classes: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Abstract: While online learning environments are increasingly common, relatively little is known about issues of equity in these settings. We test for the presence of race and gender biases among postsecondary students and instructors in online classes by measuring...
Education’s Epistemology: Rationality, Diversity, and Critical Thinking
Abstract: This collection extends and further defends the “reasons conception” of critical thinking that Harvey Siegel has articulated and defended over the last three-plus decades. This conception analyzes and emphasizes both the epistemic quality of candidate...
Bringing Automatic Stereotyping Under Control: Implementation Intentions as Efficient Means of Thought Control
Abstract: The evidence for whether intentional control strategies can reduce automatic stereotyping is mixed. Therefore, the authors tested the utility of implementation intentions— specific plans linking a behavioral opportunity to a specific response—in reducing...