Cultural capital in undergraduate research: an exploration of how biology students operationalize knowledge to access research experiences at a large, public research-intensive institution

International Journal of STEM Education

Table 1 Demographics of researchers and non-researchers who participated in the interviews

Demographic	Non-researchers, n = 42	Researchers, n = 43
Demographic	%	%
Gender
Woman	62	70
Man	36	30
Decline to state	2	0
Race/ethnicity
Asian	19	28
Black	12	2
Latinx	19	19
American Indian or Alaska Native	7	0
Other	2	2
White	38	47
Decline to state	2	2
College generation status
First-generation	29	16
Continuing generation	67	84
Decline to state	5	0
Transfer status
Transfer	81	81
Non-transfer	17	16
Decline to state	2	2
Year in college
First year	41	14
Second year	19	19
Third year	17	28
Fourth year or more	24	40
GPA
Average GPA	3.2	3.6