Data Science

With the advent of data science as a new discipline with high demand for a skilled workforce, educators are increasingly recognizing the value of translating courses and programs that have been shown to be successful and sharing lessons learned in increasing diversity in data science education. In this paper, we describe and analyze our experiences translating a lower-division data science curriculum from one university, University of California, Berkeley’s Data8 course, to other settings with very different student populations and institutional contexts at, University of Maryland,...

First-generation college students and those from ethnic groups such as African Americans, Latinx, Native Americans, or Indigenous Peoples in the United States are less likely to pursue STEM-related professions. How might we develop conceptual and methodological approaches to understand instructional differences between various undergraduate STEM programs that contribute to racial and social class disparities in psychological indicators of academic success such as learning orientations and engagement? Within social psychology, research has focused mainly on student-level mechanisms...