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Table 5 Logistic regression of teamwork and project management skills

From: STEM doctoral students’ skill development: does funding mechanism matter?

n = 719

Model 4

Model 5

Model 6

Gender (ref. = man)

   

Woman

0.85

(0.14)

0.90

(0.15)

0.89

(0.16)

Race (ref. = White)

   

Asian

1.96**

(0.44)

2.00**

(0.46)

1.96**

(0.48)

Black

0.60

(0.29)

0.69

(0.34)

0.70

(0.37)

Hispanic

1.50

(0.43)

1.71

(0.50)

1.60

(0.49)

Citizenship (ref. = U.S. citizen)

   

Non-U.S. citizen

1.22

(0.27)

1.08

(0.25)

1.22

(0.30)

Ph.D. field (ref. = engineering)

   

Biological sciences

0.69

(0.19)

0.69

(0.20)

0.67

(0.20)

Math

0.26***

(0.10)

0.34**

(0.13)

0.34**

(0.14)

Physical science

0.70

(0.15)

0.75

(0.16)

0.85

(0.20)

Institution (ref. = public)

   

Private

0.74

(0.18)

0.83

(0.21)

0.94

(0.26)

Year in doctoral program (ref. = year 1)

   

Year 2

1.31

(0.32)

1.26

(0.32)

0.99

(0.27)

Year 3

1.13

(0.27)

1.15

(0.28)

1.02

(0.27)

Year 4

1.44

(0.37)

1.49

(0.40)

1.35

(0.38)

Year 5

1.47

(0.44)

1.46

(0.45)

1.65

(0.53)

Year 6

1.56

(0.85)

1.42

(0.79)

1.65

(0.96)

Year 7 or more

1.23

(0.76)

0.97

(0.59)

0.73

(0.48)

Research group (ref. = yes)

   

No

0.28***

(0.10)

0.30***

(0.11)

0.24***

(0.10)

Unsure

0.58

(0.32)

0.60

(0.34)

0.62

(0.37)

Two or more funding sources

1.30

(0.30)

1.42

(0.34)

1.55

(0.38)

Primary funding (ref. = research assistantship)

   

External fellowship

 

0.37***

(0.09)

0.27***

(0.07)

Internal fellowship

 

0.56*

(0.13)

0.54*

(0.13)

Teaching assistantship

 

0.31***

(0.07)

0.37***

(0.09)

Career alignment

  

4.20***

(0.78)

Constant (intercept)

1.11

(0.25)

1.78*

(0.44)

0.93

(0.25)

Pseudo-R2

8.2%

11.7%

18.4%

  1. In models with engineering doctoral students only, all results are comparable.When interacting primary funding with career alignment there were no significant findings (see Appendix 4)
  2. *p \(\le\) 0.05, **p \(\le\) 00.01, ***p \(\le\) 0.001