A model for understanding teachers’ intentions to remain in STEM education

International Journal of STEM Education

Table 1 Demographic characteristics of the participants

Demographic	Frequency	Percentage
Gender
Male	2873	43.6
Female	3715	56.4
Race
White	5936	90.1
Black	403	6.1
Asian	165	2.5
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander	32	0.5
American Indian or Alaska Native	133	2.0
Hispanic origin	200	3.0
Grade levels
6^th	523	7.9
7^th	1337	20.3
8^th	1470	22.3
9^th	3641	55.3
10^th	4318	65.5
11^th	4354	66.1
12^th	4150	63.0
Ungraded	262	4.0

Note. Because participants may identify with more than one ethnicity (e.g., White and Hispanic), the percentages for race did not add up to 100%. The same was true for grade levels, as many secondary school teachers teach more than one grade level in the same year