Community-based assessments are centered on the racialized bias of the community. This includes any form of evaluation or assessment where there are multiple assessors.
This also applies to course evaluations. Students tend to evaluate racial minority professors more harshly than co-ethnic professors (Gassam Asare, 2023) which can limit career opportunities for professors in those demographics.
Increasing the diversity of the assessors can mitigate some bias and some evidence suggests that bias training can reduce the amount of bias in an individual’s evaluations (Gasam Asare, 2023). However, these still may not entirely remove it because of internalized habitus within co-ethnic assessors and the influence of stereotype threat on the one being assessed.
Further reading
Keith J. Caldwell, “Racial Bias and Student Ratings of Instructors,” University of Pittsburgh Center for Teaching and Learning, Office of Measurement and Evaluation of Teaching (OMET), accessed April 7, 2023, https://teaching.pitt.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/OMET-Racial_bias_and_student_ratings_of_instructors.pdf.