STUDENT AND FACULTY GENDER IN RATINGS OF UNIVERSITY TEACHING QUALITY

The aim of this study is to test the assertion that student and facult y gender together with their possible interaction, have little or almo st no real effect on student ratings of university teaching quality, t aking into account the diversity of academic disciplines as a modulati ng variable. A sample of 1,304 student ratings from a university in Ma drid, Spain, was selected out of a total of 236,862. The Complutense U niversity Teachers Evaluation Questionnaire was administered to studen ts at the Complutense University of Madrid for assessing teaching qual ity. This instrument operationalizes two main dimensions in evaluation of teaching in higher education: Teaching Competence and Motivational and Interactive Skills. When the results were analyzed, taking into c onsideration both possible statistical significance and effect size, t hey supported the proposed assertion. These results may have implicati ons on certain areas of higher education.