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This will mark the first serious study of such instruction in a decade and the most comprehensive ever done at Harvard. Dean K. Whitla, director of the Faculty's office of Instructional Research and Evaluation, said yesterday Whitla's office will coordinate the survey...
...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...
...study could also encourage the University to hire more women professors, Whitla said, explaining that the investigation may show that women students study better under women professors...