Table 3.
Characteristics of participating students by exposure status (Classes of 2013–16)
| Variable | Exposed n=126 |
Not-Exposed n=160 |
p-value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gender (number) | >0.9 | ||
| Female | 61 | 77 | |
| Male | 63 | 80 | |
| Age (mean±SD) | <0.0001 | ||
| Years | 26.7±3.4 | 25.1±2.7 | |
| Race/ethnicity (number) | <0.0001 | ||
| Asian | 37 | 21 | |
| Hispanic | 19 | 9 | |
| Black, Am. Indian, other | 5 | 14 | |
| White | 61 | 108 | |
| English 1st language (number) | 0.04 | ||
| Yes | 95 | 130 | |
| No | 31 | 23 | |
| Highest education (number) | 0.3 | ||
| Master’s degree | 9 | 7 | |
| Not having master’s | 117 | 149 | |
| Test mode (number) | <0.0001 | ||
| Online | 126 | 55 | |
| Hard copy | 0 | 105 | |
| Notes (number) | <0.0001 | ||
| Yes | 15 | 121 | |
| No | 111 | 39 | |
| HSRT score (mean±SD) | |||
| Overall | 20.0±4.1 | 22.6±4.8 | <0.0001 |
| Evaluation | 4.7±1.3 | 5.0±1.2 | 0.1 |
| Analysis | 4.3±1.2 | 4.5±1.2 | 0.2 |
| Deduction | 5.9±2.0 | 7.2±2.3 | <0.0001 |
| Inference | 2.6±1.0 | 3.7±1.4 | <0.0001 |
| Induction | 7.3±1.7 | 7.7±1.7 | 0.1 |