Results
Although there are more men in this study than women (see Table 4), there were no significant differences in gender, discipline, or rank. However, Group C, the Resisters, was made up entirely of tenured professors. Additionally, Group A, the Leaders, had a vast majority of tenured professors. It was only in Group B that the ratio of tenured to non-tenured was close to even.
Teaching Style Inventory Results
Group C also had a slightly larger number (six) of faculty whose identification of teaching style matched the results from the Grasha-Reichmann Teaching Style Inventory (see Table 5). Group A had five faculty members match scores, while in Group B, only three faculty had matching results.
The data were analyzed with the Kruskal-Wallis H test for independent samples. It is a nonparametric (not normally distributed) one-way analysis of variance test for the situation where the ANOVA normality assumptions may not apply. The Kruskal-Wallis test compares mean ranks to test whether independent samples are from the same population. From each group, the scores in each of the five categories were summed and compared to the scores in the other two groups in order to determine if there was a statistical difference among groups in each of the five types of teaching style (Table 6).
