Remi Kalir shares the Fair Feedback Project for addressing bias in student evaluations on episode 628 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

If you actually have students write about affirming values as a kind of open free write before they complete an evaluation of teaching, it actually has been shown to mitigate bias.

There are many people who are experiencing the effects of these structural patterns of bias who don’t look like me. So what can I do? How can I show up as an individual in this?

I did not want people coming to the Fair Feedback project and then having long-winded, tangential, potentially problematic conversations with Claude as a chatbot.

You can call it my complicity, you can call it my complexity, whatever you might call it, but I am very much entangled in this AI moment, trying to understand how I am navigating all of this.

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Resources

• The Fair Feedback Project
• Remi Kalir at the Duke Center for Teaching and Learning
• Remi Kalir — remi(x)learning
• Claude’s Remi Record
• The Research on Course Evaluations, with Betsy Barre (Teaching in Higher Ed)
• The Potential Impact of Stereotype Threat, with Robin Paige (Teaching in Higher Ed Episode 79)
• How Better Teaching Can Make College More Equitable, with David Gooblar (Teaching in Higher Ed Episode 599)
• Claude M. Steele, Stanford Department of Psychology
• Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do, by Claude M. Steele
• Ludmila Praslova, PhD — Vanguard University
• The Canary Code: A Guide to Neurodiversity, Dignity, and Intersectional Belonging at Work, by Ludmila N. Praslova
• Teaching: Is There a Fix to the Teaching-Evaluation Problem? by Beth McMurtrie (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
• A Practical Guide to Modern Teaching Evaluation, by Michael McCreary (Engaged Learning Collective)
• Transforming College Teaching Evaluation: A Framework for Advancing Instructional Excellence, by Ann E. Austin, Noah D. Finkelstein, Andrea Follmer Greenhoot, Doug Ward, and Gabriela Cornejo Weaver
• Rebecca Fordon — AI Law Librarians
• Aria Chernik, JD, PhD — Duke Learning Innovation & Lifetime Education
• Claude Code
• Cowork by Claude
• Bartz v. Anthropic — Anthropic Copyright Settlement
• Anthropic Settles With Authors in First-of-Its-Kind AI Copyright Lawsuit (NPR)
• My Tech Disclaimer, by Doug Belshaw
• My 2026 Tech Stack, by Bonni Stachowiak (Teaching in Higher Ed)
• The Data Fix with Dr. Mél Hogan (podcast)
• Poll Everywhere

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