Rateprof:
Professor ratings from RateMyProfessors.com.
Description
These data includes the summaries of the ratings of 364 instructors at one
large campus in the Midwest from Bleske-Rechek and Fritsch (2011). Each
instructor included in the data had at least 10 ratings over a several year
period. Students provided ratings on 5 point scales. The data file provides
the averages ratings and additional characteristics of the instructors
Format
A data frame with 364 observations on the following 17 variables.
gender- instructor gender, a factor with levels
female male numYears- a numeric vector, number of years in which this
instructor had ratings between 1999 and 2009.
numRaters- number of ratings
numCourses- number of different course titles included in
the rating for this instructor
pepper- a factor with levels
no and yes. In addition
to rating for quality, instructors are rated as attractive or not. A value of yes means that the consensus is that
the instructor is attractive. discipline- a factor with levels
Hum for humanities,
SocSci for social sciences,
STEM for science, technology, engineering and mathematics and
Pre-prof for professional training dept- a factor with department names
Accounting,
Anthropology, Art, Art and design, Art History,
Astronomy/Physics, Biology, Business, Chemistry,
Communication, Communication Disorders, Computer Science,
Criminal Justice, Curriculum and Instruction, Dance,
Economics, English, Environmental Public Health,
Finance, FLTR, French, Geography, Geology,
German, History, Information Systems, Japanese,
Kins, Library Science, Management, Managerial Science,
Marketing, Math, Music, Nursing, Philosophy,
Physics, Physics & Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy,
Political Science, Psychology, Religious Studies,
Social Work, Sociology, Spanish, Special Education,
Theater, Womens Studies, quality- Average quality rating, between 1, worst, to 5, best
helpfulness- Average helfpulness rating, between 1, worst,
to 5, best
clarity- Average clarity rating, between 1, worst, to 5, best
easiness- Average easiness rating, between 1, worst, to 5, best
raterInterest- Average rater interest, between 1, lowest,
to 5, highest
sdQuality- SD of quality rating
sdHelpfulness- SD of helpfulness rating
sdClarity- SD of clarity rating
sdEasiness- SD of easiness rating
sdRaterInterest- SD of rater interest
Source
Provided by April Bleske-Rechek.