David Richardson

About

David Barrie Richardson, PhD, is a Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health at the University of California, Irvine, and serves as Associate Dean for Research at the Joe C. Wen School of Population & Public Health. He earned his Ph.D. and M.S.P.H. in epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and holds a B.A. in Political Science from Duke University. Dr. Richardson's research primarily focuses on the health effects of occupational and environmental exposures, with a particular emphasis on carcinogens. His work includes studies of cancer among nuclear workers at various U.S. Department of Energy facilities and investigations of cancer among the survivors of the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He has contributed significantly to understanding the risks associated with low-dose ionizing radiation and occupational exposures in nuclear power and other settings.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Psychology
• Mathematics education
• Computer Security
• Pedagogy
• Business
• Programming language
• Internet privacy
• World Wide Web
• Medicine

Selected publications

• High School Teachers’ Self-efficacy in Teaching Computer Science

  ACM Transactions on Computing Education · 2020 · 46 citations

  Self-efficacy is an important construct for CS teachers’ professional development, because it can predict both teaching behaviors as well as student outcomes. Research has shown that teachers’ self-efficacy can be as influential as their actual level of knowledge and abilities. However, there has been very limited research on CS teachers’ self-efficacy. This study describes the development and implementation of an instrument that measures secondary school teachers’ self-efficacy in teaching comp…

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• Safety, Security, and Privacy Threats Posed by Accelerating Trends in the Internet of Things

  arXiv (Cornell University) · 2020 · 26 citations

  The Internet of Things (IoT) is already transforming industries, cities, and homes. The economic value of this transformation across all industries is estimated to be trillions of dollars and the societal impact on energy efficiency, health, and productivity are enormous. Alongside potential benefits of interconnected smart devices comes increased risk and potential for abuse when embedding sensing and intelligence into every device. One of the core problems with the increasing number of IoT dev…

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• Examining the What, Why, and How of Multilingual Student Identity Development in Computer Science

  ACM Transactions on Computing Education · 2022-02-24 · 25 citations

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  Developing student interest is critical to supporting student learning in computer science. Research indicates that student interest is a key predictor of persistence and achievement. While there is a growing body of work on developing computing identities for diverse students, little research focuses on early exposure to develop multilingual students’ interest in computing. These students represent one of the fastest growing populations in the US, yet they are dramatically underrepresented in c…

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• Development and Preliminary Validation of the Assessment of Computing for Elementary Students (ACES)

  2021 · 21 citations

  As reliance on technology increases in practically every aspect of life, all students deserve the opportunity to learn to think computationally from early in their educational experience. To support the kinds of computer science curriculum and instruction that makes this possible, there is an urgent need to develop and validate computational thinking (CT) assessments for elementary-aged students. We developed the Assessment of Computing for Elementary Students (ACES) to measure the CT concepts o…

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• How to change a state: Broadening participation in K-12 computer science education

  Policy Futures in Education · 2022-09-02 · 11 citations

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  Computer science education has been making dramatic increases in recent years. Across the US, different states are advancing computer science education through different policies. However, as a state makes choices to advance computer science education, it is critical to consider how these policies will broaden participation in computing (BPC). Many have indicated that only white and Asian males (who make up 30% of our population) currently have the opportunity/privilege to engage in computer sci…

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Recent grants

• CS10K:CS1C@OC-Building a Local Area Network of Computer Science Teachers

  NSF · $1.0M · 2016–2021

• CONECTAR: Collaborative Network of Educators for Computational Thinking for All Research

  NSF · $316k · 2017–2020

Frequent coauthors

• Hadar Ziv

  University of California, Irvine

  32 shared

• Birgit Penzenstadler

  Active Technologies (Italy)

  23 shared

• Ankita Raturi

  Purdue University West Lafayette

  17 shared

• Lori A. Clarke

  University of Massachusetts Amherst

  17 shared

• André van der Hoek

  University of California, Irvine

  16 shared

• Bill Tomlinson

  University of California, Irvine

  16 shared

• Marcio S. Dias

  Durham University

  14 shared

• Kathleen N. Moore

  University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center

  12 shared

Labs

• Joe C. Wen School of Population & Public HealthPI

Education

• Ph.D., Public Health

  University of California, Los Angeles

  2000

• Other, Public Health

  University of California, Los Angeles

  1996

• B.A., International Development Studies

  University of California, Los Angeles

  1993

Awards & honors

• Leading occupational health researcher awarded nearly $600,0…
• National committee concludes study on Manhattan Project Vete…
• A comprehensive guide to addressing bias in epidemiological…
• New study provides crucial insights into radiation exposure’…
• Environmental health expert David Richardson to serve on a n…

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