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Sounds Like Something A White Man Should Be Doing: Academic Identity In African American Female Engineering Students, Rashunda Laruth Stitt
Sounds Like Something A White Man Should Be Doing: Academic Identity In African American Female Engineering Students, Rashunda Laruth Stitt
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This study exposed the way African American female engineering students constructed their academic identities by focusing on their lived experiences. Participants included nine engineering students at Mid-South University (pseudonym) who identified as African American females. Participants were required to sit for one semi-structured academic life history interview that focused on their academic experiences from early childhood to present. This study employed two levels of theory in order to obtain a comprehensive view of participants' experiences. Black feminist theory, which accounts for the intersectionality of participants' race and gender, served as the macro level theory and academic identity, which accounts for …
Utilizing Improvement Science To Advance A Stem Improvement Effort: Increase The Number Of Underserved And Underrepresented Students Who Pursue A Science, Technology, Engineering, And Mathematic Education By Building Collective Capacity, David Andrew Kristofic Jr.
Utilizing Improvement Science To Advance A Stem Improvement Effort: Increase The Number Of Underserved And Underrepresented Students Who Pursue A Science, Technology, Engineering, And Mathematic Education By Building Collective Capacity, David Andrew Kristofic Jr.
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The primary purpose of this dissertation in practice is to provide educational leaders with a roadmap for investigating barriers that prevent underserved and underrepresented (USUR) students from entering STEM careers in order to strategically plan their local STEM improvement effort. It offers the educational leader seven guiding principles, along with descriptions and illustrations of Improvement Science tools that include an improvement map, driver diagrams, and examples of one leader's efforts to address his district's unique needs. These Improvement Science tools will enable educational leaders to begin their STEM improvement effort. Improvement Science uses the theory of Profound Knowledge, which combines …