Re: instructional design

Linnda R. Caporael (caporl who-is-at rpi.edu)
Fri, 17 Oct 1997 20:33:48 -0400

Peter,
Of course you're right. I've repeated this finding as it has been told
(repeatedly) to me, without thinking hard enough about the context. The
sample is mostly freshmen and sophomores at an engineering school, which
is trying (sort of) hard to reverse a 125 year tradition of overt and
celebrated misogyny, still alive in many quarters. I take this context
as a fact of my life, and it does take a reminder that it may not be a
fact in the lives of others.

Linnda

Peter Smagorinsky wrote:
>
> This is quite an amazing generalization. Could the finding have anything
> to do with the sample, or the way the data were analyzed, or the type of
> class, or the setting?
>
> At 11:28 AM 10/17/97 -0400, you wrote:
> Chis Bose, in the Department of Language, Literature,
> >and Communications has studied gender differences in compputer-mediated
> >class discussions. (Briefly, she found that all male groups rapidly
> >became locker room discussions; one female changed the nature of
> >discussion.)

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