Timing of recruitment, training, and surveys for intervention and control groups.
RECRUITMENT, RECRUITMENT
After recruiting participants and assigning them to either the Intervention Group or Control Group, all participants completed the Pre-Test Survey. After training of the Intervention Group all participants completed the Post-test Survey. The Summative Survey was completed by all participants after the Control Group completed training.Out of the 58 students who completed Phase 1 (i.e., who engaged in the intervention and completed both the pre-test and post-test surveys), 23 self-identified as female and 35 as male. They had a mean age of 27.12 (We recruited participants for Phase 2 from the general population of M.S. and Ph.D. graduate students in the engineering departments as well as computer sciences departments at University A and University B. Computer science students were added to the recruitment pool at University A in this phase to match the majors associated with both institutions. All participants identified themselves as being engaged in research. Recruitment, intervention/control group assignment, and all other major study aspects were conducted following the protocols and timing established for Phase 1. The one exception was that the Year 1 cohort participated in not only the summative survey as shown in Of the 157 participants who successfully completed Phase 2 (i.e., who engaged in the training and completed both the pre-test and post-test surveys and passed the attention checks), 73 self-identified as female, 83 as male, and 1 as transgender. They had a mean age of 27.53 (