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drogynous qualities. In addition, if a male teacher was seen as having a feminine gender role, they were rated lower on teaching effectiveness than a female teacher with a masculine gender role. The test showed that it is more acceptable for a female teacher to have a masculine gender role than a male teacher to have a feminine gender role.
Andrejczak came to the conclusion that the personality characteristics of the teachers were more important to the students than their instructor's biological sex when rated on the quality of instruction.
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Andrejczak chose this topic because she believes that student evaluations are really important to schools across the country in determining teacher's effectiveness.
''The information that comes from student rating
Penn State University
Twenty-six people protesting the Pennsylvania State University's response to recent racist death threats were arrested Saturday afternoon in Beaver Stadium at the start of the Blue-White game.
Criminal complaints will be fiJed against the protesters, who will be charged with criminal trespass, according to the Penn State Department of Public Information. The charges have yet to be filed and the protesters were released, but a Penn State Police Services spokesman said the protesters would receive summons by mail.
Thirty students ran to the 50-yard line, sat and protested.
photo coursety of psychology department masculine and feminine qualities), or undifferentiated (low masculine and feminine qualities). Over the course of one year, she collected her data and put together her research. This included giving a test known as the Bern Sex Role Inventory to Cabrini students in the 100 and 200 level science and humanity courses. The survey asked students to rate their teacher's personality characteristics to determine if they were seen as being masculine, feminine, androgynous, or undifferentiated.
Psychology majors Colleen Martin, Stacey Carpenter, Christina Vergara, Diana Anderjczak, and Nick Wi/iamson traveled to Washington, D.C. to compete in the Eastern Psychological Assication.
Once she studied the results from this first test, she proceeded with another survey. This analysis is similar to the survey students are given at the end of every year to rate their teachers. This survey, The Instructional Rating Form, measured the student's perception of the teacher's effectiveness, classroom behavior, personality characteristics and over all teaching quality. All together 450 students were surveyed. Andrejczak evaluated her results and noticed that students who rated their teachers as having an undifferentiated gender role received much lower ratings than those with the masculine, feminine, and an- surveys are really influential and affect a lot of decisions made by the schools. It is interesting to see if these tests are gender biased and how much gender influences the results. If evaluations are gender biased, then some teachers could be losing out on promotions or missing the beneficial feedback needed to reconstruct ure their class- es," Andrejczak said.
In general, just looking at the sex, not gender role, of the men and women teachers at Cabrini, ratings of teachers effectiveness were high. This means that the students like the quality of instruction they receive from both their male and female teachers and that biological sex, doesn't have as much of an affect on the way we rate our teachers.
"The Instructional Rating Form that students are given at the end of every semester should be taken seriously. Many students just rush through them, but the information is very important to the administration and faculty and should be to the students. We should help teachers by answering honestly because this may help the quality of instruction we receive," Andrejczak said.
"I definitely have to thank Dr. Sicoli, Dr. Tomasco and Dr. McKinley. They were so helpful in helping me prepare and get my paper ready for the competition," Andrejczak said.
The group was protesting the university's response to death threats that have been mailed to black leaders, athletes and athletes' parents since October.
The protest was held because students know that their colleagues are in danger and the University is doing nothing to stop or even acknowledge the threats.
Indiana University
Federal officials denied journalism students who write for the newspaper in Terre Haute the right to cover a story that happened within five miles of their campus.
A local school paper, The Indiana Statesman, allowed two student reporters to join their paper in order to cover the event.
The reporters wanted to write about the execution of Timothy Mc Veigh. The journalism students do not want to witness the execution; they just want to be allowed on prison grounds.
Both papers were denied to cover the event because they are not considered actual papers. To be a recognized newspaper means that there is a price for the paper, the paper has to be delivered by mail or recognized by the U.S. Postal Service and thestory has to be viable.
Syracuse University
"Young people are always protesting everything. We cannot live without capitalism and globalization. It's something natural. It's the way life WOlb,• commented Anik Bonoit. a student and protester. Students attempting to study for finals at Universit6 Laval, Quebec booed Young protestors.
People protested against the Summit of the Americas and an array of causes. While some protested for the protection of the rainforest. " others wore red and distributed comm1mist pamphlets. Protesters were granted the right to protest months in advance by the campus and were given free accommodations.
GeorgeWashingtonUniversity
Tom Penders resigned Friday as George Washington men's basketball coach calling it "time for a sabbatical" from coaching. Controversy began when four students admitted to using the access code of Penders' son. Tom Penders Jr., also a coach. The access code was used to make long-distance phone calls, which cost more than $1,400.
Another incident in question came from a student who infonned Penders that he had nine misdemeanors for sexual abuse, weapons violations and theft. Penders never told anyone about the student.
This resignation is the second-straight school Penders left under scandalous circumstances.
-informationcompiled by Jennifer Ford