TABLE 1.
Self-reported demographic breakdown of students (by semester) who participated in both pre- and post-semester surveys and whose data were analyzeda
| Demographic | Semester 1 | Semester 2 | Semester 3 | Total | Department total (Spring 2019)b |
| Genderc | |||||
| Woman | 47 (61%) | 18 (69%) | 63 (68%) | 128 (59%) | 486 (60%) |
| Man | 28 (36%) | 7 (27%) | 29 (32%) | 84 (39%) | 324 (40%) |
| Nonbinary | 2 (3%) | 1 (4%) | 0 (0%) | 3 (1%) | — |
| Race | |||||
| Asian | 3 (4%) | 2 (8%) | 5 (5%) | 10 (5%) | 59 (7%) |
| Black | 4 (5%) | 0 | 0 | 4 (2%) | 21 (3%) |
| Latino | 2 (3%) | 1 (4%) | 8 (9%) | 11 (5%) | 95 (12%) |
| Mixed | 2 (3%) | 0 | 2 (2%) | 4 (2%) | — |
| White | 64 (83%) | 22 (85%) | 77 (84%) | 163 (76%) | 585 (72%) |
| Additional informationd | |||||
| First-generation | — | 2 (8%) | 16 (17%) | 18 (8%) | 136 (19%) |
| Nontraditional | — | 4 (15%) | 12 (13%) | 16 (7%) | — |
| Learning disability, not registered | — | 0 | 4 (4%) | 4 (2%) | — |
| Learning disability, registered | — | 1 (4%) | 4 (4%) | 5 (2%) | — |
aData not available or collected are denoted by dashes. We did not include metrics under “additional information” in analyses due to small sample sizes.
bThe last column reflects 2015 demographic data (where available) for the CU-Boulder Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, wherein this study took place. Importantly, students were not required to answer demographic questions.
cResponses to an open-ended question asking students to report on their gender included woman, man, female, male, and nonbinary. The responses “female” and “male” were interpreted respectively as “woman” and “man” to align with the construct of gender.
dDemographic data that were only collected in semesters 2 and 3 of this study, which is why there are no data present for semester 1 (denoted by a dash).