Shelley Goldman

About

Professor Shelley Goldman is an educational anthropologist interested in the idea that learning takes place when students are actively engaged with each other, their teachers, and others in conversations, activities, content, and technologies. She is very interested in the power of real-world contexts to drive learning, and researches how people learn in and out of school. Goldman’s work focuses on creating opportunities for rich STEM learning, and for understanding how design thinking and technologies can create access and be transformational. Her current work includes broadening participation in STEM via family activities, design-based engagements, and through empathy work with scientists doing outreach.

Research topics

• Psychology
• Computer Science
• Sociology
• Internal medicine
• Medicine
• Physical therapy
• Medical emergency
• Mathematics education
• Pedagogy

Selected publications

• Beyond the Deficit Model: The Ambassador Approach to Public Engagement

  BioScience · 2019-02-04 · 50 citations

  articleOpen access

  Abstract Scientists are increasingly motivated to engage the public, particularly those who do not or cannot access traditional science education opportunities. Communication researchers have identified shortcomings of the deficit model approach, which assumes that skepticism toward science is based on a lack of information or scientific literacy, and encourage scientists to facilitate open-minded exchange with the public. We describe an ambassador approach, to develop a scientist's impact ident…

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• Evaluating the Effect of Concussion-Education Programs on Intent to Report Concussion in High School Football

  Journal of Athletic Training · 2021 · 24 citations

  CONTEXT: Concussion underreporting leads to delays in diagnosis and treatment, prolonging recovery time. Athletes' self-reporting of concussion symptoms, therefore, reduces risk. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effectiveness of 3 concussion-education programs in improving concussion-reporting intention. DESIGN: Randomized controlled clinical trial. SETTING: Three high schools in California. PATIENTS OR OTHER PARTICIPANTS: A total of 118 male football players (age = 14.88 ± 1.19 years). INTERVENTION(S…

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• Learning Pathways

  Routledge eBooks · 2020 · 23 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding
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• Design Thinking for Every Classroom

  2021-08-16 · 11 citations

  book1st authorCorresponding

  Designed to apply across grade levels, Design Thinking for Every Classroom is the definitive teacher’s guide to learning about and working with design thinking. Addressing the common hurdles and pain points, this guide illustrates how to bring collaborative, equitable, and empathetic practices into your teaching. Learn about the innovative processes and mindsets of design thinking, how it differs from what you already do in your classroom, and steps for integrating design thinking into your own…

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• Using a picture-embedded method to support acquisition of sight words

  Learning and Instruction · 2019-09-24 · 11 citations

  articleOpen accessSenior author

  This study investigated whether an intervention using words embedded with pictures can be more effective in sight word instruction than one using words alone. Participants included sixty-nine children in junior kindergarten (ages 4–5) enrolled in school in Ontario, Canada. Children were split randomly into treatment and control groups; the treatment group was taught four words using picture-embedded words, and the control group was taught using text alone. Both groups also received phonics instr…

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Frequent coauthors

• Molly B. Zielezinski

  17 shared

• Roy D. Pea

  15 shared

• Angela Booker

  University of California, San Diego

  12 shared

• Ross Zafonte

  Brigham and Women's Hospital

  11 shared

• Daniel H. Daneshvar

  Harvard University

  10 shared

• Lee Martin

  8 shared

• Kristen Pilner Blair

  Stanford University

  8 shared

• Maureen Carroll

  University of York

  8 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Education

  Stanford University

  1980

• M.A., Education

  Stanford University

  1976

• B.A., Anthropology

  University of California, Santa Barbara

  1973

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