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Digital youth divas: A program model for increasing knowledge, confidence, and perceptions of fit in stem amongst black and brown middle school girls.

Pinkard N, Martin CK, Erete S.
UIID-AD: 4166
2016;152-173. doi: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2005-4.ch008.

Women use technology to mediate numerous aspects of their lives, yet women of color are grossly underrepresented in the fields of computer science and engineering. Decisions about participation in STEM are frequently made prior to high school, and these...

EFRI-REM at CCNY: Research Experience and Mentoring for Underrepresented Groups in Cross-disciplinary Research on Assistive Technology.

Ieee, Zhu ZG, Khoo WL, Santistevan C, Gosser Y, Molina E, Tang H, Ro T, Tian YL.
UIID-AD: 3961
2016;132-140.

We have successfully run the NSF EFRI-REM program at The City College of The City University of New York (CUNY) for four years (2012 to 2015) with over 50 research participants (RPs), most of whom are from underrepresented groups,...

EVALUATION OF ENGINEERING READINESS AND ACTIVE RATE ENHANCED BY INTENSIVE SUMMER BRIDGE PROGRAM.

Asme, Zhou Y, Islam N, Pan CC.
UIID-AD: 3960
2016;

An engineering Summer Bridge (Engineering Summer Readiness. Workshop after 2015) program has been implemented at the University of Texas at Brownsville (UTB) since summer 2012. After three years of program data accumulation, we can now track those participants from...

Ladders of opportunity: Postgraduate equity, professions and the academic workforce.

Bell S, May R.
UIID-AD: 4117
2016;241-255. doi: 10.1007/978-981-10-0315-8_14.

This chapter focuses on student equity in postgraduate education and explores implications for the formation of the academic workforce. Participation and success in postgraduate education is of particular importance as it is an indicator, not only of completion of...

Strategies for engaging hispanic/latino youth in the US in computer science.

Thiry H, Denner J, Martinez J.
UIID-AD: 4155
2016;24-48. doi: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2005-4.ch002.

In the United States, Hispanic/Latino youth are underrepresented in computer science degree programs and the workforce. This chapter reviews theoretical models and empirical evidence to guide efforts to engage Hispanic/Latino youth in activities and learning environments that have the...

Techniques for retaining computer science students at historical black colleges and universities.

Brown S, Yuan X.
UIID-AD: 4777
2016;251-268. doi: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0308-8.ch014.

Computing jobs are among the fastest growing areas of employment in the United States. However, there is a critical shortage of students majoring in computing. Institutions of higher education are not producing enough computing graduates to keep up with...

Culturally Situated Survey of Engineering Identity for Latina/o Undergraduates.

Ieee, Revelo RA.
UIID-AD: 3927
2015;2277-2281.

Measures of engineering identity have been designed for an aggregate group of engineering students leaving the ways that students of color develop their engineering identities unexplored. This work in progress paper presents a culturally situated survey of engineering identity...

E-mentoring Supports for Improving the Persistence of Underrepresented Students in On-line and Traditional Courses.

Wolfe G, Gregg N.
UIID-AD: 3955
2015;243-251. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-20684-4_24.

On-line education has broadened access to college allowing the same educational opportunities as students enrolled at a traditional campus. The increase in on-line enrollment is over shadowed by course drop out and failure rates which are higher than campus-based...

Examining the levels of reasoning used by urban elementary black girls engaging in technology-enhanced inquiry.

Buck GA, Beeman-Cadwallader N, Trauth-Nare A.
UIID-AD: 3561
2015;86-107. doi: 10.4018/978-1-4666-9616-7.ch005.

Technological tools such as interfaces, sensors and probeware are increasingly prevalent in science classrooms. With increased prevalence comes a need to improve the research base on how to use technology in ways that maximize student learning. These resources potentially...

Getting the Attention of Underrepresented Minority Community College Students to Consider Engineering as a Career.

Ieee, Anderson-Rowland MR, Rodriguez AA, Grierson AE.
UIID-AD: 3818
2015;1858-1865.

In order to have more students in engineering and computer science, we need more students interested in these fields. Many community college (CC) students believe that engineering is boring and has little to do with their lives, but also...

Linking instruction and assessment in adolescence.

Berninger VirginiaWise.
UIID-AD: 1475
2015;137-168. doi: 10.1037/14437-006.

This chapter begins by describing six key issues that emerge during adolescence: (a) moving across instructional blocks with different teachers and classmates during the school day, (b) dealing with increasing diversity among learners who need to find their common...

Transitioning Students Navigating Engineering Identities.

Ieee, Tolbert D, Hynes M, Dickerson D, Cardella M.
UIID-AD: 3946
2015;431-435.

How do transitioning underrepresented minority (URM) students evaluate their engineering ability? To investigate this question seven students in a summer pre-college program provided insight on their confidence in their abilities and were asked to recollect the experiences which helped...

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