I am working on my research study for my dissertation and need some help nailing down the exact research questions and the appropriate angles to approach it.
In a nut shell, I want to examine if university professors and/or others who observe male student teachers show any unfair bias based on gender. I have proposed a study with a written scenario about a student teaching observation.
Two versions would be used: one with a male student teacher, and one with a female student teacher. Then i would ask the participants to rate the teacher on various levels of appropriateness. I would examine the data to see if there was a significant difference in the evaluations based on the fictitional student teacher’s gender.
Bryan, if you are reading this, I discussed it briefly at the conference in Atlanta (by the way; where’s the DVD I ordered?).
I would appreciate if you and I could talk via phone one evening.
ant to pick your brain a little.
Merritt merrittarnold@gmail.com
