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Table 7 Percentage (and number) of participants that expressed or objected to student identity playing a role in their teaching

From: The role of epistemological beliefs in STEM faculty’s decisions to use culturally relevant pedagogy at Hispanic-Serving Institutions

Evidence or explicit statement that student identity

Biology (n = 17)

Chemistry (n = 7)

Physics (n = 6)

Mathematics (n = 10)

Total (n = 40)

(1) Plays a role in teaching

100% (17)

86% (6)

83% (5)

70% (7)

88% (35)

(2) Does not play a role in teaching

47% (8)

14% (1)

66% (4)

60% (6)

48% (19)

Both (1) and (2)

47% (8)

14% (1)

50% (3)

30% (3)

38% (15)

Neither

0%

14% (1)

0%

0%

3% (1)

  1. aThese categories are not disjoint. Each instructor in “Both (1) and (2)” is also counted in (1) and (2)