TABLE 6.
Pre-/post-attitudinal scores by category.
| CLASS Survey Category | d̄ | Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test p Value Overall Data Set |
2-Sample MWW Test p value Male vs. Female |
2-Sample MWW Test p Value White vs. Non-White |
2-Sample MWW Test p Value Well-Represented vs. Underrepresented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Real World Connection | 0.004 | 0.464 | 0.415 | 0.438 | 0.027 |
| Enjoyment (Personal Interest) | 0.054 | 0.031* | 0.461 | 0.015* | 0.876 |
| Problem Solving: Reasoning | −0.051 | 0.085 | 0.803 | 0.485 | 0.01* |
| Problem Solving: Synthesis and Application | 0.011 | 0.609 | 0.421 | 0.907 | 0.263 |
| Problem Solving: Strategies | −0.090 | 0.038* | 0.431 | 0.187 | 0.602 |
| Problem Solving: Effort | −0.036 | 0.179 | 0.281 | 0.031* | 0.581 |
| Conceptual Connections (Memorization) | −0.092 | 0.006* | 0.134 | 0.158 | 0.771 |
Comparison by Gender (Male vs. Female), Race/Ethnicity (White [Non-Hispanic] vs. Non-White and/or Hispanic) and Representation in STEM (Well-represented [Non-Hispanic White or Asian] vs. Underrepresented [African-American/Black and/or Hispanic/Latinx and/or American Indian and/or Alaskan Native]).
MWW = Mann-Whitney-Wilcoxon
*
p < 0.05