arch hypotheses included a multiple regression analysis and independent t-tests.
According to Petersen (1992), findings indicated that teacher egalitarianism contributed significantly to students' affective learning. Female teachers were perceived as significantly more egalitarian than male teachers.
In other words, in the opinions of both male and female students, male professors evidenced significantly more sexism than did female professors. This finding, at least indirectly, indicates that the problems first viewed by Hall and Sandler (1982) may to some extent remain today.
Ferguson (1992) states that the chilly or hostile classroom climate for women originally observed by Hall and Sandler (1982) remains, at least in part, on college campuses today. Ferguson feels that evidence for this claim can be found in an examination of students' preferred classroom learning styles in comparison to the learning styles utilized by male professors.
Specifically, in her study, Ferguson surveyed 847 students at a state college in order to determine their preferences in classro
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