GENDER ISSUES AND STUDENTS PERCEPTIONS OF INSTRUCTORS IMMEDIACY AND EVALUATION OF TEACHING AND COURSE

This study reports on relationships between teachers' immediacy and st udents' evaluations of the course and reacher, and differences among t hese variables based on teachers' and students' gender. Analysis showe d that for 197 undergraduate students (105 women and 92 men) immediacy , course evaluation, and evaluations of their teachers (104 men and 92 women) mere positively correlated. There were no differences by gende r for immediacy, but three gender differences were found - female inst ructors received higher teacher and course ratings than their male pee rs, and female students with male instructors rated the course lower t han any other gender grouping.