Surprisingly, this belief increases as women rise in academic rank, with 54% of female assistant professors and 62% of female full professors rating the two careers as equally important.
In all, four out of ten professors rated Mr Kerry's economic plan as good or very good, but 27% gave it negative scores.
In their analysis, based on such factors as on-time performance and consumer complaints, the professors rated Continental second best overall last year, followed by Delta, Northwest, Alaska, US Airways, American, America West, TWA and United.
One-third of the female assistant professors, 29% of female associate professors, and only 27% of female full professors rate their own careers as more important than their partner's.
In a survey done by Public Agenda in 2001, employers and college professors rated the majority of high schoolers fair or poor in the basics grammar and spelling, addition and subtraction, work habits.
94% of college professors rate themselves as above average teachers (so much for advanced degrees).
The website used a "five-point Likert scale as well as a binary scoring system for students to rate professors," Rate My Professors said. .
The top professors on Rate My Professors, after all, are not the top professors in the nation.
When a student rates a professor's effectiveness, the rating reflects at least three distinct influences (Gross, Lakey, Edinger, Orehek, & Heffron, 2009).
