This report introduces the Leaky Tech Pipeline Framework, explores data on underrepresentation and barriers to diversity, and provides a roadmap for comprehensive interventions and solutions to increase racial and gender diversity across the tech ecosystem. Check out the report below: View Report
Broadening Participation in Computing: Examining Experiences of Girls of Color
This research study examined longitudinal gender differences in computing outcomes among high school girls of color. Girls of color participating in a 3-year CS intervention demonstrated lower initial interest in computing and these gender differences persisted after one year of the intervention. Promising outcomes were revealed in year three of the intervention, where there were no gender differences in participation …
Culturally Relevant Computer Science Education: From Theory to Practice
Presented at the 2017 American Education Research Association (AERA) Conference in San Antonio, TX, this research describes the practices of culturally relevant computer science pedagogy, including tenets and instructional examples. View Presentation
Enhancing Participation in Computer Science among Girls of Color: An Examination of a Preparatory AP Computer Science Intervention
The Kapor Center for Social Impact research team produced a chapter of an IGI Global book slated for publication in 2017: “Moving Students of Color from Consumers to Producers of Technology.” The chapter examines the impact of one 5-week summer computer science program on girls’ of color aspirations and attitudes towards computer science. A second study included in the chapter …
Influence and Motivation in STEM Among Underrepresented High School Students of Color
“Presented at the 2016 American Education Research Association (AERA) Conference in Washington, D.C. (April 8, 2016), this qualitative study examined the differing ways that boys and girls of color in the Summer Math and Science Honors Academy (SMASH) STEM program describe their motivations to pursue STEM studies. Among other findings of note, girls of color often reported entering STEM because …
Expanding Opportunities in Computer Science Among Girls of Color: An Examination of an AP Preparatory Computer Science Intervention
This study, presented at the American Educational Research Association annual conference in Chicago (April 16-20, 2015), examined the efficacy of a computer science preparatory intervention on computer science achievement and aspirations of underrepresented girls of color within LPFI’s SMASH program. View Presentation