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Download full textCummings, Mary-Ellen; Thompson, Isabelle – 1995
A case study questioned essentialist feminist assumptions about the marginalization of females in technical writing courses. A student team composed of a female (Jane, the team leader) and three males enrolled in an advanced writing course required of juniors and seniors majoring in the applied sciences to investigate solutions to the student…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Feminism, Gender Issues, Higher Education
Learning and Talking about Politics: Gender Dynamics, Interaction and Success in NFL Model Congress.
Rosenthal, Cindy Simon; Rosenthal, James A. – 2003
Certain kinds of extracurricular activities develop interpersonal, leadership, and participatory skills that are important to citizenship and politics. In this research, the focus is on simulated legislative debate and the question is how such activities might contribute to persistent gender differences observed in elite political participation in…
Descriptors: Debate, Gender Issues, High Schools, Higher Education
Marecek, Jeanne; Arcuri, Lauren – 1995
Two questions serve as the focus in this study on factors affecting perception of femininity among pre-adolescent girls: (1) What are the meanings that girls themselves invested in gender and feminity? and (2) Through what social processes do girls negotiate meanings of gender and femininity? Researchers used a participant-observation study in…
Descriptors: Children, Dietetics, Females, Femininity
Commeyras, Michelle; And Others – 1997
A study examined literacy professionals' interest in gender issues in literacy education. A total of 1,519 K-12 teachers; reading specialists; teacher educators in reading, language arts, and related fields; library media specialists; and school administrators who make policy decisions related to literacy education completed a survey. Results…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Attitude Measures, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education
Bennett, Christene K.; Bennett, Jerry A. – 1994
Attribution theory supports the notion that teachers respond to student behavior based upon their own beliefs regarding the causation of behavior. This study examined differences in male and female teachers' attributions and beliefs in relation to gender and success of their students. Subjects, 250 high school teachers, half male and half female,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitude Measures, Attribution Theory, Gender Issues
Witek, Jennifer M.; Little, Steven G. – 1996
This study examined whether teachers respond differently to various problem behaviors as a function of student gender. Prospective teachers (N=155) were presented with a description of a male or female student exhibiting either internalizing, externalizing, or solely academic problem behaviors. Participants indicated their likelihood of referring…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitude Measures, Attribution Theory, Behavior Problems
