Word: whitla
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Some differences between teaching styles of female and male professors have been noticed in the past," Dean K. Whitla, director of the Harvard-Danforth Center, said yesterday. The center will coordinate the study...
...Whitla explained that previous video tapes have suggested that women students get along better with women professors than with men professors, and that some women students feel more comfortable speaking in classes led by women...
...Whitla noted that further evidence shows male students tend to interrupt female professors more than they interrupt male professors. On the other side of the desk, women teachers apparently are more hesitant to assume control of the class...
...Dean K. Whitla, director of the Faculty's office of instructional research and evaluation said this week he hopes the department's advisory committee of undergraduates will make a recommendation "taking financial considerations into account...
Administrative officials were less positive, saying students are too accustomed to shopping around for courses. Whitla said, however, that in the case of the tutorials, "preregistration might be helpful...