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CHANGE IN PERCEPTION OF PROBLEMS OVER THE COURSE OF THE
ACADEMIC YEAR
To study more closely how Rowan experiences affected the perception of problems in
SEM for women, we looked at the changes in females’ perception of the problems from
the Fall to the Spring semester. As we found for the males, there was quite a bit of change
in perception of the problems from the Fall to the Spring, with from 25-55% of the
female students changing their responses to the questions (Table IIG-13). On almost
every question, a higher proportion weakened their perception of the issue as problematic
in the Spring (on the only question in which as high a proportion increased their
perception of the issue as problematic, the wording was slightly changed from Fall to
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