Beyond Gender and Race: The Representation of Concealable Identities Among College Science Instructors at Research Institutions
Year: 2024
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: = 2428) at research institutions to assess the extent to which instructors hold CSIs, whether they reveal those identities to undergraduates, how the prevalence of CSIs among instructors compares to their prevalence among undergraduates, and the reasons instructors reveal or conceal their CSIs. The most common CSIs instructors reported were having anxiety (35%) and being a first-generation college student (29%). Relatively few instructors revealed CSIs to students. The largest mismatches of CSI prevalence were for struggling academically in college (-30%) and having anxiety (-25%); all mismatches grew when accounting for instructor CSI disclosure, highlighting that students perceive fewer role models of scientists with CSIs than actually exist.
Source: CBE—Life Sciences Education
Institution: Arizona State University
Language: English
Subfield: Safety Research
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
Funder: National Science Foundation
Awards: G1048467355, CAREER: Identifying Aspects of Research that Exacerbate Undergraduate and Graduate Student Depression and Developing Interventions to Improve Student Mental Health, Exploring the Effect of Shared Identities Between Instructors and Students in the Undergraduate Biology Classroom, G6671297155
OpenAlex ID: W4393373337