They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder. If the beholder is your student, it may well pay if they think you're good-looking.
In a study examining the links between looks and college course ratings, two researchers at the University of Texas found classes conducted by attractive professors were more likely to win top marks from students. In their study, "Beauty in the Classroom: Professors' Pulchritude and Putative Pedagogical Productivity," Daniel Hamermesh and Amy Parker note student course ratings are often a factor in setting salaries, suggesting looks might affect pay. While they do not claim student ratings are necessarily good benchmarks of a teacher's classroom productivity, Hamermesh and Parker say their findings "leave little doubt" perceived good looks do indeed drive up the scores. The study was recently posted on the Web site of the prestigious National Bureau of Economic Research. The researchers chose six students -- three men and three women -- to judge the looks of 94 University of Texas faculty members and examined ratings on 463 courses those professors had taught. "The effects of differences in beauty on the average course rating are not small," they found. They also discovered minority faculty received lower evaluations than majority professors and that non-native English speakers fared worse than natives, which they said could either signal discrimination by students or reflect difficulties those teachers have transmitting knowledge. Hamermesh and Parker say the biggest question arising from their research is whether students are discriminating against less-attractive professors or whether they actually learn less from them. "What if students simply pay more attention to good-looking professors and learn more?" they ask rhetorically. "We would argue that this is a productivity effect." Still, they admit it's tough to parse fully why better-looking professors rate higher. "Disentangling whether this outcome represents productivity or discrimination is ... probably impossible." (Agencies) | 俗話說(shuō):情人眼里出西施。如果這"情人"是你的學(xué)生,并且他們認(rèn)為你很漂亮,你就會(huì)得到很多好處。 德克薩斯大學(xué)的兩位研究員進(jìn)行了一項(xiàng)調(diào)查,分析長(zhǎng)相與大學(xué)課程評(píng)估之間的關(guān)系。他們發(fā)現(xiàn)那些長(zhǎng)相迷人的教授執(zhí)教的課程更容易從學(xué)生那里得到高分。 在他們這項(xiàng)名為"教室中的美:教授的美麗和假定教育生產(chǎn)力"的研究中,丹尼爾·漢默麥希和埃米·帕克提到學(xué)生對(duì)課程的評(píng)分往往是決定教授薪水的一個(gè)因素,這就意味著長(zhǎng)相可能會(huì)影響收入。 盡管他們沒(méi)有斷言學(xué)生的評(píng)價(jià)一定是衡量教師課堂生產(chǎn)力的有效尺度,漢默麥希和帕克說(shuō)他們的發(fā)現(xiàn)無(wú)疑說(shuō)明看得見的美貌確實(shí)有助于提高得分。 這項(xiàng)研究最近發(fā)表在權(quán)威的國(guó)家經(jīng)濟(jì)研究局網(wǎng)站上。 研究員們選擇了六名學(xué)生,三男三女,讓他們來(lái)評(píng)判德克薩斯大學(xué)94名教師的長(zhǎng)相,并調(diào)查了那些教授們所承擔(dān)的463門課程的評(píng)分情況。 他們發(fā)現(xiàn):"長(zhǎng)相的差異對(duì)課程平均得分影響不小。" 他們同時(shí)發(fā)現(xiàn)對(duì)少數(shù)民族教授的評(píng)價(jià)比大多數(shù)教授要低,英語(yǔ)不是母語(yǔ)的教授待遇比本地人低。他們說(shuō)這種現(xiàn)象要么體現(xiàn)了學(xué)生的偏見,要么反映了那些教師們傳授知識(shí)時(shí)遇到了麻煩。 漢默麥希和帕克說(shuō)他們研究中發(fā)現(xiàn)的最大的問(wèn)題是:學(xué)生們到底是歧視長(zhǎng)相不夠好看的教授,還是確實(shí)從他們那里學(xué)到的東西比較少。 "如果學(xué)生們真的更注意長(zhǎng)相漂亮的教授并且能夠?qū)W到更多的東西,那怎么辦呢?"他們反問(wèn)到。"我們會(huì)認(rèn)為這就是生產(chǎn)效率。" 盡管如此,他們承認(rèn)很難全面的解析為什么長(zhǎng)相較好的教授得到的評(píng)價(jià)較高。"要弄清楚這調(diào)查結(jié)果體現(xiàn)的是生產(chǎn)力還是偏見……也許不太可能。" (中國(guó)日?qǐng)?bào)網(wǎng)站譯) |