Deirdre Cobb-Roberts
Biographic Data
| ID | 1604854 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deirdre Cobb-Roberts |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deirdre |
| FAMILY NAME | Cobb-Roberts |
| SIGNATURE | COBB-ROBERTS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Florida |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Integrating Community Engagement and Service Learning into Environmental Engineering Curricula
Engineering education is evolving to train students to work more closely with communities to support holistic sustainability. This has increasingly involved collaborative and participatory research models that address environmental justice challenges within local communities. This research evaluates student learning experiences and changes in perceptions about race, justice, and community in a pair of undergraduate service learning courses in env…
African Americans and the Struggle for Opportunity in Florida Public Higher Education, 1947-1977
In the decades following World War II, access to higher education became an important vehicle for expanding opportunity in the United States. The African American-led Civil Rights Movement challenged discrimination in higher education at a time when state and federal government leaders saw strengthening public higher education as necessary for future economic growth and development. Nationally, the 1947 President's Commission on Higher Education …
Accountability in a Postdesegregation Era
In the wake of both the end of court-ordered school desegregation and the growing popularity of accountability as a mechanism to maximize student achievement, the authors explore the association between racial segregation and the percentage of students passing high-stakes tests in Florida’s schools. Results suggest that segregation matters in predicting school-level performance on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test after control for other …
Reducing Resistance to Diversity through Cognitive Dissonance Instruction
Before admission to the college of education, students at a large, predominantly White public university in the Southeast are required to complete a state-mandated course on diversity issues. The purpose of this course is to introduce students to diversity and effective ways of addressing it in future classrooms as a result of changing demographics. Often, students experience resistance to diversity issues because their current understandings or …
Reducing Resistance to Diversity through Cognitive Dissonance Instruction
Before admission to the college of education, students at a large, predominantly White public university in the Southeast are required to complete a state-mandated course on diversity issues. The purpose of this course is to introduce students to diversity and effective ways of addressing it in future classrooms as a result of changing demographics. Often, students experience resistance to diversity issues because their current understandings or …
Accountability in a Postdesegregation Era
In the wake of both the end of court-ordered school desegregation and the growing popularity of accountability as a mechanism to maximize student achievement, the authors explore the association between racial segregation and the percentage of students passing high-stakes tests in Florida’s schools. Results suggest that segregation matters in predicting school-level performance on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test after control for other …
African Americans and the Struggle for Opportunity in Florida Public Higher Education, 1947-1977
In the decades following World War II, access to higher education became an important vehicle for expanding opportunity in the United States. The African American-led Civil Rights Movement challenged discrimination in higher education at a time when state and federal government leaders saw strengthening public higher education as necessary for future economic growth and development. Nationally, the 1947 President's Commission on Higher Education …
Reducing Resistance to Diversity through Cognitive Dissonance Instruction
Before admission to the college of education, students at a large, predominantly White public university in the Southeast are required to complete a state-mandated course on diversity issues. The purpose of this course is to introduce students to diversity and effective ways of addressing it in future classrooms as a result of changing demographics. Often, students experience resistance to diversity issues because their current understandings or …
Accountability in a Postdesegregation Era
In the wake of both the end of court-ordered school desegregation and the growing popularity of accountability as a mechanism to maximize student achievement, the authors explore the association between racial segregation and the percentage of students passing high-stakes tests in Florida’s schools. Results suggest that segregation matters in predicting school-level performance on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test after control for other …
African Americans and the Struggle for Opportunity in Florida Public Higher Education, 1947-1977
In the decades following World War II, access to higher education became an important vehicle for expanding opportunity in the United States. The African American-led Civil Rights Movement challenged discrimination in higher education at a time when state and federal government leaders saw strengthening public higher education as necessary for future economic growth and development. Nationally, the 1947 President's Commission on Higher Education …
Integrating Community Engagement and Service Learning into Environmental Engineering Curricula
Engineering education is evolving to train students to work more closely with communities to support holistic sustainability. This has increasingly involved collaborative and participatory research models that address environmental justice challenges within local communities. This research evaluates student learning experiences and changes in perceptions about race, justice, and community in a pair of undergraduate service learning courses in env…
Desegregation (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Mathematics education (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Public Administration (2 works) · Public Administration (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works)