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Informal STEM: Learning with robotics and game design in an urban context

Broadening participation informal stem education

Leonard J, Newton KJ, Wright CG.
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KJ Newton, J Leonard, A Buss, CG Wright… - … in Education, 2020 - Taylor & Francis

This mixed methods study examined how engagement in robotics and game design influenced students' self-efficacy, STEM attitudes, and computational thinking (CT) skills. Predominantly African-American students engaged in engineering and computer science tasks during informal learning environments. Results revealed students'...

Do birds of a feather shop together? The effects on performance of employees' similarity with one another and with customers

diversity

Joshi A, Leonard JS, Levine DI.
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JS Leonard, DI Levine, A Joshi - Journal of Organizational …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library

Theories have suggested that employee diversity can affect business performance both as a result of customer preferences and through changes of relations within the workplace. We …

The Bessie Coleman Project: Using computer modeling and flight simulation in informal STEM settings

Theoretical frames STEM

Ellington R, Leonard J.
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J Leonard, WJ Jordan, R Ellington - … of the 41st Annual Meeting of the …, 2019 - par.nsf.gov

… project is to create new STEM Pathways that provide unique … ) as an entrée to STEM and STEM awareness. Using computer … to the extant literature on STEM education and workforce …

Coding moves: Design and research of teaching computational thinking through dance choreography and virtual interactions

Broadening Participation in Computing AND Program Evaluation

Daily SB, Jörg S, Leonard AE.
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AE Leonard, SB Daily, S Jörg… - Journal of Research on …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis

Over the past 7 years, we pioneered the development of a program blending dance choreography, computer programming, and a virtual environment to teach computational thinking, broadening pathways for more diverse students. We investigated the ways in which upper elementary...

FOSTERING COMPUTATIONAL THINKING AMONG UNDERREPRESENTED STUDENTS IN STEM

Broadening Participation in Computing AND Program Evaluation

Ellington R, Leonard J, Thomas JO.
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J Leonard, JO Thomas, R Ellington - api.taylorfrancis.com

It is a great honor for me to write this foreword. As an immigrant scholar of color in an intensely White academy, I find myself in deep solidarity with the authors. As my colleagues and I have argued recently...

Using Robotics and Game Design to Promote Pathways to STEM

Broadening participation informal stem education

Leonard J.
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J Leonard, A Buss, A Unertl, M Mitchell - … of Mathematics Education, 2016 - ERIC

This research report presents the results of a STEM summer program on robotics and game design. The program was part of a three-year study funded by the National Science Foundation. Children in grades four through six participated in a...

Promoting Computational Thinking, Computational Participation, and Spatial Reasoning with LEGO Robotics

Asset based approaches STEM training

Djonko-Moore C, Francis KR, Leonard J.
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J Leonard, C Djonko-Moore, KR Francis… - … Technology Education, 2023 - Springer

… to STEM and CS education. Within the K-12 setting, robotics tasks have been used for more than a decade to motivate K-12 students to learn STEM… exhibited asset-based approaches to …

Preparing teachers to engage rural students in computational thinking through robotics, game design, and culturally responsive teaching

Broadening participation informal stem education

Leonard J.
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J Leonard, M Mitchell… - … Teacher Education, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com

This article examines teacher preparation and teacher change in engineering and computer science education. We examined culturally responsive teaching self-efficacy (CRTSE), culturally responsive teaching outcome expectancy (CRTOE) beliefs, and attitudes toward computational thinking (CT) as teachers participated in one...

The brilliance of Black children in mathematics

mathematics education

Leonard J, Martin DB.
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J Leonard, DB Martin - 2013 - books.google.com

This book is a critically important contribution to the work underway to transform schooling for students who have historically been denied access to a quality education, specifically …

Blacks, historical disadvantage, and engineering education: Lessons learned from the United States of America

HBCU broadening

Leonard J.
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J Leonard, S Atwaters, C Leggon… - Conference of the …, 2013 - academia.edu

… programs that show considerable promise for broadening the participation of US Blacks in … faculty at HBCUs and Non-HBCUs. For example, if engineering faculties at HBCUs are …

Social justice, place, and equitable science education: Broadening urban students' opportunities to learn

Broadening participation informal stem education

Leonard J.
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J Leonard, SA Chamberlin, JB Johnson, G Verma - The Urban Review, 2016 - Springer

In this paper, results from a 2-year informal science education study are presented. Children (aged 8–12) in this study participated in multi-aged groups to learn science within the context of paleontology and climate change. The goals of the project...

Leveraging teachers' cultural and place-based knowledge to enhance STEM learning

Broadening participation informal stem education

Leonard J, Moss-Redman I.
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A Buss, J Leonard, I Moss-Redman - … & Teacher Education …, 2020 - learntechlib.org

Preparing underrepresented students with the STEM and Information and Communications Technology (ICT) skills needed to fill 21st century jobs is both a national priority and a social justice endeavor. While large-scale projects are often developed to address this endeavor,...

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