Jane Margolis
Biographic Data
| ID | 6591646 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jane Margolis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jane |
| FAMILY NAME | Margolis |
| SIGNATURE | MARGOLIS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
How Officials Use Intelligence Analysis
What explains variation in how officials use intelligence analysis? How can one official acting on one issue within one bureaucratic and political reality seem alternately to use, misuse, and not use analysis at different times? This article proposes an answer by introducing a new theory and evaluating it with a plausibility probe centered on Robert McNamara’s experiences during the Vietnam War. The theory claims that officials use analysis adapt…
How Officials Use Intelligence Analysis
How do officials use intelligence analysis? This article proposes a working model based on insights from psychological research into information processing and persuasion. It suggests that officials use analysis adaptively across four stages and four types of use. It advances intelligence studies by clarifying “use,” accounting for mixed evidence, and improving explanations of variation between officials and in the same official over time. The wo…
Stuck in the Shallow End
The number of African Americans and Latino/as receiving undergraduate and advanced degrees in computer science is disproportionately low, according to recent surveys. And relatively few African American and Latino/a high school students receive the kind of institutional encouragement, educational opportunities, and preparation needed for them to choose computer science as a field of study and profession. In Stuck in the Shallow End, Jane Margolis…
The computer science pipeline in urban high schools
Our research was conceived out of a desire to understand why so few underrepresented students of color are learning computer science at the high school level. High school is a critical time for pre-college preparation and for getting on the right "track" for college and future career opportunities. Yet, by college the number of students of color obtaining bachelors degrees in computer science is remarkably small. In this article, we discuss our r…
Geek Mythology
The fact that information technology is becoming the lingua franca of 21st-century business makes it of more than passing interest that the proportion of women selecting and succeeding in the field is in decline. In Margolis and Fisher’s Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing, the authors analyze the problem and report on how it is being partially righted at Carnegie Mellon University. The following selections are from Chapters 4 and 8 of th…
Caring about connections
For nearly four years (1995-9), we have interviewed female and male computer science students about their experiences studying computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, in one of the top computer science departments in the country (USA). We heard differences in orientations to computing in men's and women's interviews when they arrive at the university. We have traced the effects of these differences on women's sense of belonging and comfor…
The Way Girls Learn
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The Way Girls Learn
Caring about connections
For nearly four years (1995-9), we have interviewed female and male computer science students about their experiences studying computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, in one of the top computer science departments in the country (USA). We heard differences in orientations to computing in men's and women's interviews when they arrive at the university. We have traced the effects of these differences on women's sense of belonging and comfor…
The computer science pipeline in urban high schools
Our research was conceived out of a desire to understand why so few underrepresented students of color are learning computer science at the high school level. High school is a critical time for pre-college preparation and for getting on the right "track" for college and future career opportunities. Yet, by college the number of students of color obtaining bachelors degrees in computer science is remarkably small. In this article, we discuss our r…
Geek Mythology
The fact that information technology is becoming the lingua franca of 21st-century business makes it of more than passing interest that the proportion of women selecting and succeeding in the field is in decline. In Margolis and Fisher’s Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing, the authors analyze the problem and report on how it is being partially righted at Carnegie Mellon University. The following selections are from Chapters 4 and 8 of th…
Stuck in the Shallow End
The number of African Americans and Latino/as receiving undergraduate and advanced degrees in computer science is disproportionately low, according to recent surveys. And relatively few African American and Latino/a high school students receive the kind of institutional encouragement, educational opportunities, and preparation needed for them to choose computer science as a field of study and profession. In Stuck in the Shallow End, Jane Margolis…
How Officials Use Intelligence Analysis
How do officials use intelligence analysis? This article proposes a working model based on insights from psychological research into information processing and persuasion. It suggests that officials use analysis adaptively across four stages and four types of use. It advances intelligence studies by clarifying “use,” accounting for mixed evidence, and improving explanations of variation between officials and in the same official over time. The wo…
How Officials Use Intelligence Analysis
What explains variation in how officials use intelligence analysis? How can one official acting on one issue within one bureaucratic and political reality seem alternately to use, misuse, and not use analysis at different times? This article proposes an answer by introducing a new theory and evaluating it with a plausibility probe centered on Robert McNamara’s experiences during the Vietnam War. The theory claims that officials use analysis adapt…
Computer Science (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Gender and Technology in Education (4 works) · Mathematics education (3 works) · Pedagogy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Teaching and Learning Programming (3 works) · Career Development and Diversity (2 works) · Computer security (2 works) · Curriculum (2 works)