Jill Denner
Biographic Data
| ID | 4087699 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jill Denner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jill |
| FAMILY NAME | Denner |
| SIGNATURE | DENNER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Education Training And Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3293-4767 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 87 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
What Predicts the Momentum of Information and Communications Technologies Students in Community College
Belonging to a research-practice partnership: Lessons from 15 think-pieces about the Covid-19 pandemic and a call for action
Research-Practice Partnerships (RPPs) in education have been gaining increasing currency and support since well before the advent of COVID-19. This article reflects on what the pandemic experience has meant for some RPPs so far, and imagines what other RPPs might look like in the near future. The authors share a collection of fifteen think-pieces written by individuals working in or around, or funding RPPs during the COVID crisis. These contribut…
Exploring Design Principles in Computational Thinking Instruction for Multilingual Learners
Background: Multilingual learners have been overlooked and understudied in computer science education research. As the CS for All movement grows, it is essential to design integrated, justice-oriented curricula that help young multilingual learners begin to develop computational thinking skills and discourses. Purpose: We present a conceptual framework and accompanying design principles for justice-centered computational thinking activities that …
Learning to program in middle school: How pair programming helps and hinders intrepid exploration
Background: Learning to program and success in computer science requires persistence in the face of challenges. This study contributes to research on the social context of learning by describing how children’s peer interactions can support or hinder the pair’s problem solving on the computer.Methods: Video recordings from eight pairs of middle school students programming a computer game are used to explore how working with a partner supports or h…
Introduction: Latina Girls Transforming Cultures, Contexts, and Selves
Conclusion: Latina Girls, Social Science, and Transformation
Latina Girls: Voices of Adolescent Strength in the U.S
Latinas are now the largest minority group of girls in the country. Yet the research about this group is sparse, and there is a lack of information to guide studies, services or education for the rapidly growing Latino population across the U.S. The existing research has focused on stereotypical perceptions of Latinas as frequently dropping out of school, becoming teen mothers, or being involved with boyfriends in gangs. Latina Girls brings toget…
How Natural Mentoring is Used by Latinx Youth at a Community Technology Center
Mentoring is widely cited as a strategy to increase the representation of Latinx in technology, but the role of informal relationships with adults outside their family remains unclear. This study explores how natural mentoring is utilized by Latinx youth at a community-based organization, including the perspectives of both mentors and mentees, what it looks like, and the implications for students’ education and career pathways in the technology s…
Critical Methods in Longitudinal Research With Latino Immigrant Families
We have an ethical and a scientific imperative to do research that reflects the views and learning experiences of historically marginalized groups. Most studies that use a critical methodological approach rely on qualitative data. This article describes how a critical approach to recruitment, data collection, and retention can help to ensure that quantitative research accurately reflects the experiences of Latino immigrant families. The authors d…
Latino Children’s Math Confidence: The Role of Mothers’ Gender Stereotypes and Involvement Across the Transition to Middle School
The influence of parental beliefs and behaviors on children’s math confidence and performance is well documented, but few studies examine these associations over time, or in large samples of Latino/a families. This study used longitudinal data from 247 (114 sons and 133 daughters) mother-child dyads to examine whether maternal math gender stereotypes and math involvement predict changes in the mothers’ behavior or changes in the child’s perceived…
Maternal Psychological Control and Its Association with Mother and Child Perceptions of Adolescent Adjustment: More Evidence on the Strength of Shared Perspectives
Computing for the social good: Engaging Latino/a students in K-12
Computing for the social good is a movement that aims to broaden participation in computing by offering opportunities to apply computer science to social causes in higher education (Buckley, Nordlinger, & Subramanian, 2008; Goldweber et al., 2011). We have extended this movement to K-12, and added perspectives from Latina/o critical race theory, an analytic tool to critically examine how power relations shape Latino's educational experiences (Yos…
An Exploratory Study of Adolescent Pimping Relationships
Computational thinking for youth in practice
Computational thinking (CT) has been described as the use of abstraction, automation, and analysis in problem-solving [3]. We examine how these ways of thinking take shape for middle and high school youth in a set of NSF-supported programs. We discuss opportunities and challenges in both in-school and after-school contexts. Based on these observations, we present a "use-modify-create" framework, representing three phases of students' cognitive an…
Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat: New Perspectives on Gender and Gaming
Girls and women as game players and game designers in the new digital landscape of massively multiplayer online games, “second lives,” “modding,” serious games, and casual games. Ten years after the groundbreaking From Barbie to Mortal Kombat highlighted the ways gender stereotyping and related social and economic issues permeate digital game play, the number of women and girl gamers has risen considerably. Despite this, gender disparities remain…
Predictors of HIV Transmission Among Migrant and Marginally Housed Latinos
Young Women's Leadership Alliance: Youth–adult partnerships in an all‐female after‐school program
This article describes program strategies and adult practices that can build youth–adult partnerships. In particular, it focuses on strategies to empower girls in all‐female after‐school programs. The Young Women's Leadership Alliance has involved 164 girl leaders and five adult women leaders over three years. To build the partnerships, adults made two key contributions: provided guidance rather than instruction, and created a place where girls c…
Latinos in a College Outreach Program: Application, Selection, and Participation
College outreach programs provide key access along the academic pipeline, yet little is known about how students access or engage with these programs. Data were collected as part of a university-community partnership. Analyses of student applications revealed that most had aspirations for college-based careers. They saw institutions, family members, and school personnel as resources to achieve their goals, and institutions and relationships as ob…
VI. The Interplay of Leadership and Friendship in the Young Women’s Leadership Alliance
VI. The Interplay of Leadership and Friendship in the Young Women’s Leadership Alliance
Negotiating Femininity: Power and Strategies of Mexican American Girls
III. The Gap between Feminist Theory and Practice: Lessons from Teenage Women in California
To me it [feminism] means having respect for yourself and showing it and using it. Other girls my age commonly think it means being a lesbian and hating men, but I think men can be feminists as well, because if they have respect for themselves and show it and use it then they are being feminist. Other girls think it means Spice Girl ‘girl power’ but I think that is the opposite of feminism (Teenage participant in an after-school leadership progra…
The Protective Role of Social Capital and Cultural Norms in Latino Communities: A Study of Adolescent Births
This study investigates how community characteristics can protect adolescents from the negative effects of poverty. Using economic predictors, eight communities with low or high birthrates for 15- to 17-year-old Latinas were identified. Quantitative data on birth-rates, demographics, and the physical environment were obtained from government, hospital, and local sources. Qualitative data on the physical environment and social processes in the com…
Cultural Brokers: Helping Latino Children on Pathways toward Success
Latino children in elementary and middle school not only experience developmental changes and confront the risks and adventures held by neighborhoods, they must also juggle the values and expectations of two cultures as they navigate their own pathways toward success. Integrating the results of a series of studies focused on the children of Mexican-American immigrants in California, this article discusses ways that teachers, parents, siblings, an…
Cultural Brokers: Helping Latino Children on Pathways toward Success
Latino children in elementary and middle school not only experience developmental changes and confront the risks and adventures held by neighborhoods, they must also juggle the values and expectations of two cultures as they navigate their own pathways toward success. Integrating the results of a series of studies focused on the children of Mexican-American immigrants in California, this article discusses ways that teachers, parents, siblings, an…
The Protective Role of Social Capital and Cultural Norms in Latino Communities: A Study of Adolescent Births
This study investigates how community characteristics can protect adolescents from the negative effects of poverty. Using economic predictors, eight communities with low or high birthrates for 15- to 17-year-old Latinas were identified. Quantitative data on birth-rates, demographics, and the physical environment were obtained from government, hospital, and local sources. Qualitative data on the physical environment and social processes in the com…
Negotiating Femininity: Power and Strategies of Mexican American Girls
Young Women's Leadership Alliance: Youth–adult partnerships in an all‐female after‐school program
This article describes program strategies and adult practices that can build youth–adult partnerships. In particular, it focuses on strategies to empower girls in all‐female after‐school programs. The Young Women's Leadership Alliance has involved 164 girl leaders and five adult women leaders over three years. To build the partnerships, adults made two key contributions: provided guidance rather than instruction, and created a place where girls c…
III. The Gap between Feminist Theory and Practice: Lessons from Teenage Women in California
To me it [feminism] means having respect for yourself and showing it and using it. Other girls my age commonly think it means being a lesbian and hating men, but I think men can be feminists as well, because if they have respect for themselves and show it and use it then they are being feminist. Other girls think it means Spice Girl ‘girl power’ but I think that is the opposite of feminism (Teenage participant in an after-school leadership progra…
Maternal Psychological Control and Its Association with Mother and Child Perceptions of Adolescent Adjustment: More Evidence on the Strength of Shared Perspectives
Latino Children’s Math Confidence: The Role of Mothers’ Gender Stereotypes and Involvement Across the Transition to Middle School
The influence of parental beliefs and behaviors on children’s math confidence and performance is well documented, but few studies examine these associations over time, or in large samples of Latino/a families. This study used longitudinal data from 247 (114 sons and 133 daughters) mother-child dyads to examine whether maternal math gender stereotypes and math involvement predict changes in the mothers’ behavior or changes in the child’s perceived…
Latinos in a College Outreach Program: Application, Selection, and Participation
College outreach programs provide key access along the academic pipeline, yet little is known about how students access or engage with these programs. Data were collected as part of a university-community partnership. Analyses of student applications revealed that most had aspirations for college-based careers. They saw institutions, family members, and school personnel as resources to achieve their goals, and institutions and relationships as ob…
Critical Methods in Longitudinal Research With Latino Immigrant Families
We have an ethical and a scientific imperative to do research that reflects the views and learning experiences of historically marginalized groups. Most studies that use a critical methodological approach rely on qualitative data. This article describes how a critical approach to recruitment, data collection, and retention can help to ensure that quantitative research accurately reflects the experiences of Latino immigrant families. The authors d…
VI. The Interplay of Leadership and Friendship in the Young Women’s Leadership Alliance
Cultural Brokers: Helping Latino Children on Pathways toward Success
Latino children in elementary and middle school not only experience developmental changes and confront the risks and adventures held by neighborhoods, they must also juggle the values and expectations of two cultures as they navigate their own pathways toward success. Integrating the results of a series of studies focused on the children of Mexican-American immigrants in California, this article discusses ways that teachers, parents, siblings, an…
III. The Gap between Feminist Theory and Practice: Lessons from Teenage Women in California
To me it [feminism] means having respect for yourself and showing it and using it. Other girls my age commonly think it means being a lesbian and hating men, but I think men can be feminists as well, because if they have respect for themselves and show it and use it then they are being feminist. Other girls think it means Spice Girl ‘girl power’ but I think that is the opposite of feminism (Teenage participant in an after-school leadership progra…
The Protective Role of Social Capital and Cultural Norms in Latino Communities: A Study of Adolescent Births
This study investigates how community characteristics can protect adolescents from the negative effects of poverty. Using economic predictors, eight communities with low or high birthrates for 15- to 17-year-old Latinas were identified. Quantitative data on birth-rates, demographics, and the physical environment were obtained from government, hospital, and local sources. Qualitative data on the physical environment and social processes in the com…
Latinos in a College Outreach Program: Application, Selection, and Participation
College outreach programs provide key access along the academic pipeline, yet little is known about how students access or engage with these programs. Data were collected as part of a university-community partnership. Analyses of student applications revealed that most had aspirations for college-based careers. They saw institutions, family members, and school personnel as resources to achieve their goals, and institutions and relationships as ob…
VI. The Interplay of Leadership and Friendship in the Young Women’s Leadership Alliance
VI. The Interplay of Leadership and Friendship in the Young Women’s Leadership Alliance
Negotiating Femininity: Power and Strategies of Mexican American Girls
Predictors of HIV Transmission Among Migrant and Marginally Housed Latinos
Young Women's Leadership Alliance: Youth–adult partnerships in an all‐female after‐school program
This article describes program strategies and adult practices that can build youth–adult partnerships. In particular, it focuses on strategies to empower girls in all‐female after‐school programs. The Young Women's Leadership Alliance has involved 164 girl leaders and five adult women leaders over three years. To build the partnerships, adults made two key contributions: provided guidance rather than instruction, and created a place where girls c…
Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat: New Perspectives on Gender and Gaming
Girls and women as game players and game designers in the new digital landscape of massively multiplayer online games, “second lives,” “modding,” serious games, and casual games. Ten years after the groundbreaking From Barbie to Mortal Kombat highlighted the ways gender stereotyping and related social and economic issues permeate digital game play, the number of women and girl gamers has risen considerably. Despite this, gender disparities remain…
Computational thinking for youth in practice
Computational thinking (CT) has been described as the use of abstraction, automation, and analysis in problem-solving [3]. We examine how these ways of thinking take shape for middle and high school youth in a set of NSF-supported programs. We discuss opportunities and challenges in both in-school and after-school contexts. Based on these observations, we present a "use-modify-create" framework, representing three phases of students' cognitive an…
An Exploratory Study of Adolescent Pimping Relationships
Computing for the social good: Engaging Latino/a students in K-12
Computing for the social good is a movement that aims to broaden participation in computing by offering opportunities to apply computer science to social causes in higher education (Buckley, Nordlinger, & Subramanian, 2008; Goldweber et al., 2011). We have extended this movement to K-12, and added perspectives from Latina/o critical race theory, an analytic tool to critically examine how power relations shape Latino's educational experiences (Yos…
Latino Children’s Math Confidence: The Role of Mothers’ Gender Stereotypes and Involvement Across the Transition to Middle School
The influence of parental beliefs and behaviors on children’s math confidence and performance is well documented, but few studies examine these associations over time, or in large samples of Latino/a families. This study used longitudinal data from 247 (114 sons and 133 daughters) mother-child dyads to examine whether maternal math gender stereotypes and math involvement predict changes in the mothers’ behavior or changes in the child’s perceived…
Maternal Psychological Control and Its Association with Mother and Child Perceptions of Adolescent Adjustment: More Evidence on the Strength of Shared Perspectives
Critical Methods in Longitudinal Research With Latino Immigrant Families
We have an ethical and a scientific imperative to do research that reflects the views and learning experiences of historically marginalized groups. Most studies that use a critical methodological approach rely on qualitative data. This article describes how a critical approach to recruitment, data collection, and retention can help to ensure that quantitative research accurately reflects the experiences of Latino immigrant families. The authors d…
Introduction: Latina Girls Transforming Cultures, Contexts, and Selves
Conclusion: Latina Girls, Social Science, and Transformation
Latina Girls: Voices of Adolescent Strength in the U.S
Latinas are now the largest minority group of girls in the country. Yet the research about this group is sparse, and there is a lack of information to guide studies, services or education for the rapidly growing Latino population across the U.S. The existing research has focused on stereotypical perceptions of Latinas as frequently dropping out of school, becoming teen mothers, or being involved with boyfriends in gangs. Latina Girls brings toget…
How Natural Mentoring is Used by Latinx Youth at a Community Technology Center
Mentoring is widely cited as a strategy to increase the representation of Latinx in technology, but the role of informal relationships with adults outside their family remains unclear. This study explores how natural mentoring is utilized by Latinx youth at a community-based organization, including the perspectives of both mentors and mentees, what it looks like, and the implications for students’ education and career pathways in the technology s…
Learning to program in middle school: How pair programming helps and hinders intrepid exploration
Background: Learning to program and success in computer science requires persistence in the face of challenges. This study contributes to research on the social context of learning by describing how children’s peer interactions can support or hinder the pair’s problem solving on the computer.Methods: Video recordings from eight pairs of middle school students programming a computer game are used to explore how working with a partner supports or h…
Exploring Design Principles in Computational Thinking Instruction for Multilingual Learners
Background: Multilingual learners have been overlooked and understudied in computer science education research. As the CS for All movement grows, it is essential to design integrated, justice-oriented curricula that help young multilingual learners begin to develop computational thinking skills and discourses. Purpose: We present a conceptual framework and accompanying design principles for justice-centered computational thinking activities that …
What Predicts the Momentum of Information and Communications Technologies Students in Community College
Belonging to a research-practice partnership: Lessons from 15 think-pieces about the Covid-19 pandemic and a call for action
Research-Practice Partnerships (RPPs) in education have been gaining increasing currency and support since well before the advent of COVID-19. This article reflects on what the pandemic experience has meant for some RPPs so far, and imagines what other RPPs might look like in the near future. The authors share a collection of fifteen think-pieces written by individuals working in or around, or funding RPPs during the COVID crisis. These contribut…
Psychology (20 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Political science (10 works) · Developmental psychology (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Pedagogy (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works)