Important case
USC eliminates student evals as part of tenure process
https://www.educationdive.com/news/usc-nixes-student-evaluations-as-part-of-tenure-review/524163/
American Sociological Association statement against SETs (which is quite good and something all organizations should move toward)
https://www.asanet.org/sites/default/files/asa_statement_on_student_evaluations_of_teaching_sept52019.pdf
Peer Reviewed Literature
In a 2022 article in Higher Education, Heffernan (*.pdf attached) analyzes the survey results of 674 academics to inform higher education leaders and the sector more widely of the amount and type of abusive comments academics are receiving. The work also demonstrates that the highest volume, most derogatory, and most threatening abuse is directed towards women academics and those academics from marginalised groups.
Katharine Gelber, Katie Brennan, David Duriesmith & Ellyse Fenton (2022): Gendered mundanities: gender bias in student evaluations of teaching in political science, Australian Journal of Political Science, DOI: 10.1080/10361146.2022.2043241
Rebecca Kreuzer (and others) have summarized a large body of the SET literature here.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/ps-political-science-and-politics/article/exploring-bias-in-student-evaluations-gender-race-and-ethnicity/91670F6003965C5646680D314CF02FA4
An interesting and insightful article that is “quasi-experimental design, faculty members teaching identical online courses recorded welcome videos that were presented to students at the course onset, constituting the sole exposure to perceived gender and race/ethnicity.” And you can likely guess what the outcomes were.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191491X16300323
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10755-014-9313-4
https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~stark/Preprints/evaluations14.pdf
https://www.scienceopen.com/document?vid=818d8ec0-5908-47d8-86b4-5dc38f04b23e
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/30d2/6aad9e4303f907bdbeb7abae363226125de1.pdf
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00992608
https://psycnet.apa.org/buy/1988-02814-001
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/ps-political-science-and-politics/article/gender-bias-in-student-evaluations/1224BE475C0AE75A2C2D8553210C4E27/core-reader
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0216241
mitigating gender bias
Calls for using diverse methods to evaluate teaching
http://www.crlt.umich.edu/resources/evaluation-teaching/methods
https://www.aaup.org/article/how-do-we-evaluate-teaching#.WrFBzOgbNPY%0A
