The data are gathered from end of semester student evaluations for 463 courses taught by a sample of 94 professors from the University of Texas at Austin. In addition, six students rate the professors' physical appearance. The result is a data frame where each row contains a different course and each column has information on the course and the professor who taught that course.
evalsA data frame with 463 observations on the following 23 variables.
Variable identifying the course (out of 463 courses).
Variable identifying the professor who taught the course (out of 94 professors).
Average professor evaluation score: (1) very unsatisfactory - (5) excellent.
Rank of professor: teaching, tenure track, tenured.
Ethnicity of professor: not minority, minority.
Gender of professor: female, male.
Language of school where professor received education: English or non-English.
Age of professor.
Percent of students in class who completed evaluation.
Number of students in class who completed evaluation.
Total number of students in class.
Class level: lower, upper.
Number of professors teaching sections in course in sample: single, multiple.
Number of credits of class: one credit (lab, PE, etc.), multi credit.
Beauty rating of professor from lower level female: (1) lowest - (10) highest.
Beauty rating of professor from upper level female: (1) lowest - (10) highest.
Beauty rating of professor from second level female: (1) lowest - (10) highest.
Beauty rating of professor from lower level male: (1) lowest - (10) highest.
Beauty rating of professor from upper level male: (1) lowest - (10) highest.
Beauty rating of professor from second upper level male: (1) lowest - (10) highest.
Average beauty rating of professor.
Outfit of professor in picture: not formal, formal.
Color of professor's picture: color, black & white.