Undergraduate research, learning gain and equity: the impact of final year research projects

Figures & data

Table 1. Descriptive statistics and sample frequencies.

	Mean	Standard deviation
Research Gain (Overall)	1.2	6.5
Sciences	1.8	6.4
Social Sciences	0.5	7.8
Humanities	0.8	4.2
Prior Attainment	59.9	6.5
Disability	13.7%
Low Participation
Neighbourhood	26.3%
Gender
Female	50.7%
Male	49.2%
Other	0.1%
Ethnicity
White	82.9%
Black	5.4%
Asian	11.1%
Other	0.6%
Discipline
Sciences	43.2%
Social Sciences	32.0%
Humanities	24.8%

Table 2. The effects of student characteristics and discipline on benefits from undergraduate research.

Variables	Unstandardised coefficients
	B	Standard Error	Significance
(Constant)	5.981	.834	.000 **
Sciences	.894	.231	.000 **
Social Science	−.554	.247	.025 *
Prior Attainment	−.085	.013	.000 **
Disability	−.528	.266	.047 *
Low Participation Area	.218	.207	.293
Female	.722	.186	.000 **
Black	−.286	.410	.485
Asian	−1.359	.298	.000 **
Y2013	−.281	.283	.322
Y2014	−.151	.279	.589
Y2015	−.234	.291	.421
Y2016	.198	.289	.494

^* p < .01

^** p < .001.