1997_10 The Daily Collegian October 1997

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THE DAILY
•    COLLEGIAN
Wednesday, October 1,1997
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5 Cleveland's lake
6 She. in Chartres
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0 Govt agents
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7 Hid and Pacino
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1 Long river
3 Water pipes
5 Shone
5 Mon-h
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1 Skullcaps
4 City's profile
6 Ftaison d* —
7 Bind
8 Damage
9 Crone
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5 See eye-to-eye
7 Went quickly
8 Ardor
2 Mushroom
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poetically
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composer
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Enthusiastic instructor's voice goes
long way towards influencing students
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19 Keen-sighted
21 Jacobs wife
24 Facts
25 Zero
27 MeMie captain
28 Easy gat
29 Shore bird
32 Man of rank
34 Cows.
By Colleen De Baise
College Press Service
ITHACA — "In what year did
the first Continental Congress
meet? Anyone? Anyone?"
If the dry homeroom teacher in
"Ferris Bucllcr's Day Off had
added a hit more pep to his" voice
and mayhc thrown in a few hand
gestures, he might have won
Teacher of the Year.
At leaslthal's what suggested hy
a new study hy Cornell University
researchers, which found a little
enthusiasm in a professor's voice
goes a longfway in influencing stu¬
dents. yy :.
In fact, students" evaluations of
their instructors, which often play
an enormous role in determining
whether a professor gets tenure and
pay bikes, may he he hased more
on style-than substance, warn the
researchers.
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As part of the study, a Cornell
professor taught the same course
twice with one exception—he used
a more enthusiastic tone of voice
the second semester, and students'
ratings soared on every measure
that second semester.
The second-semester students
gave much higher ratings not only
on the professor's knowledge of the
topics and their own ability to learn,
but even on factors such as the fair¬
ness of grading policies, text qual¬
ity, professor organization and
course goals.
And although the 249 students
in the second-semester course said
they learned more than the 229 stu¬
dents the previous semester be¬
lieved they had learned, the two
groups performed no differently on
exams and other assessment mea¬
sures.
"The study suggests that factors
totally unrelated to actual teaching
effectiveness, such as the variation
in a professor's voice, can exert a
sizeable influence on student rat¬
ings of that same professor's
knowledge, organization, grading
fairness, etc.." said Wendy Will¬
iams, associate professor of human
development at Cornell.
The co-author of the study.
Stephen J. Ccci. was the professor
evaluated by the students in a
course on developmental psychol¬
ogy, which he has taught lor alrrioSt
20 years
He and Williams came up with
the idea for a study after he look a
teaching skills workshop following
the fall semester During the spring
semester, he taught the course again
using one teaching skill he learned
in the workshop an "enthusiastic"
teaching style accomplished by
changing the tone ol his voice and
using more hand gestures.
The results surprised even the
researchers. "The effect of the pre¬
sentation style also colored stu¬
dents' reaction to factors unrelated
to (he teaching, such as the quality
of the textbook and teaching aids
used." Williams said. Yet. the text¬
book and teaching aids were the
same both semesters.
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