Summary of Findings for Objective One

 Faculty members were coded by their cognitive style score with the letter "A"

designating the most adaptive faculty member and the letter "I" designating the most

innovative faculty member. This group of faculty members ranged from a graduate

student employed as a lecturer to tenured faculty members with ages ranging from 25 to

62. Six of the nine faculty members were female. The group's range of teaching

experience was 1 to 38 years with few faculty members having teaching experience

outside of the classroom. Faculty members represented six academic departments in the

College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at the University of Florida. Faculty

demographic information was not used in any further data analysis, but presented here

simply to describe the faculty member group. See Table 4-2 for a summary of

demographic information regarding participating faculty members.

Table 4-2. Summary of Classes Regarding Reported Demographic Information of
 Participating Faculty Members
 Experience
 Course Instructor Age Gender Teaching (years) Academic Department
 Faculty member A 25 Female 3 Agricultural Education
 & Communication
 Faculty member B 54 Male 29 Animal Science
 Faculty member C 36 Female 12 Food & Resource
 Economics
 Faculty member D 62 Male 38 Animal Science
 Faculty member E 54 Female 23 Microbiology & Cell
 Science
 Faculty member F 46 Female 11 Food Science & Human
 Nutrition
 Faculty member G 35 Female 7 Family Youth &
 Consumer Science
 Faculty member H 42 Male 7 Food & Resource
 Economics
 Faculty member I 26 Female 1 Agricultural Education
 & Communication