ABSTRACT

Through a randomised controlled experimental design, the purpose of this study was to determine whether the gender of a music teacher educator influenced student perceptions of professional and interpersonal teaching skills. Participants (N = 146) completed a student evaluation questionnaire after viewing five-minute teaching videos of a professor leading a lecture and mentoring a student teacher. The teaching videos were scripted and directed by the researchers. The female professor in this experiment scored significantly higher than the male professor on interpersonal measures (p < .001), however there was no significant difference between the male and female professor on professional quantitative measures. The male professor received a greater proportion of positive comments in the open response section of the questionnaire (p < .05) and significantly more positive comments related to professional traits (p < .05) than the female professor. These results suggest students may perceive professional and interpersonal teaching qualities differently in male and female music teacher educators.

摘要

通过随机对照实验设计，本研究的目的是确定音乐教师教育者的性别是否影响学生对专业和人际教学技能的看法。参与者（N  = 146）在观看教授主持讲座并指导实习教师的五分钟教学视频后完成了学生评估调查问卷。教学视频由研究人员编写和导演。本实验中女教授在人际交往方面的得分显着高于男教授（p < .001），然而，男女教授在专业定量测量方面没有显着差异。与女教授相比，男教授在问卷的开放式回答部分获得的积极评价比例更高（p  < .05），并且与职业特质相关的积极评价也明显更多（p  < .05）。这些结果表明，学生对男性和女性音乐教师教育工作者的专业和人际教学质量的看法可能有所不同。