Female Faculty Role Models and Student Outcomes: A Caveat about Aggregation

Autor/in	Johnson, Iryna Y.
Titel	Female Faculty Role Models and Student Outcomes: A Caveat about Aggregation
Quelle	In: Research in Higher Education, 55 (2014) 7, S.686-709 (24 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0361-0365
DOI	10.1007/s11162-014-9331-1
Schlagwörter	College Students; Academic Achievement; Role Models; Women Faculty; Measures (Individuals); Correlation; Statistical Significance; Gender Differences; Statistical Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Collegestudent; Schulleistung; Identifikationsfigur; Frauenakademie; Weibliche Gelehrte; Messdaten; Korrelation; Geschlechterkonflikt; Statistische Analyse
Abstract	The idea that female faculty might serve as role models for female students has led to studies of the effect of female faculty on female student performance. Due to varying levels of aggregation of the measure of student exposure to female faculty--percentage of female faculty at an institution or department, percentage of classes taught by females, or the effect of female instructors on female students in a class--existing research provides mixed and incompatible results. By applying both non-aggregated and aggregated measures of exposure to female role models to the same data, this analysis demonstrates how aggregation affects the association between exposure to female role models and student achievement. This study shows that female instructors have a significant positive effect on female student grade performance and do not have a statistically significant effect on male student performance. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10