Class I respondents reported their college classification as 48.1% (n=37) juniors, 26.0%

(n=20) seniors, 20.8% (n=16) sophomores, and 5.2% (n=4) freshman. Students were

asked how many courses were taken in the subject area similar to Class I. In response, it

was found that 34.2% (n=26) had taken no courses, 46.1% (n=35) had taken one to two

courses, 13.2% (n=10) had taken three to four courses and 6.6% (n=5) had taken more

than four courses in the subject area.

All Participants

 For all faculty members, teaching experience ranged from a graduate student

employed as a lecturer to tenured faculty members. Years of experience ranged from 1 to

38 years while ages of these faculty members ranged from 25 to 62 years. Six of the nine

faculty members were female. Faculty members represented six academic departments in

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

 There were 993 undergraduate students enrolled in the nine courses examined in

this study, of which 716 participated. Of the student respondents, 65.7% (n=467) were

female. The mode age of student participants was 21 years (33.6%, n=239). The majority

of the students were juniors (48.6%, n=345) and seniors (41.4%, n=294). Considering the

number of courses students had taken in the same subject area to the course of which

instruments were administered, 11.5% (n=81) had taken no courses, 37.2% (n=263) had

taken one to two courses, 26.7% (n=189) had taken three to four classes and 24.6%

(n=174) had taken more than four courses.

Discussion for objective one

 Analysis of the faculty members in the study found that six of the nine agreeing to

participate were female. There was a variety of years of teaching experience among the

faculty participants ranging from the faculty member for Class D who had taught 38