Education Equity
Jun – Aug 2021
About The Project
This project has been in the works between MBAE and BU Spark! for two years and has taken on a few different iterations. I worked on this project for two months during the summer of 2021.
Organization Description
The Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that, together with our members, promotes and supports continuous improvement in our schools and innovation that is needed to ensure that EVERY student receives a high-quality education that prepares them for success in college, career, and citizenship.
Problem
To be able to evaluate access inequities within STEM education - this will include opportunities (classes, programs), enrollment numbers (students in class), and advanced courses (honors, AP) - so that the data can tell a story about what the state of STEM looks like in Massachusetts High Schools.
Our Goal
Develop an interactive visualization tool that will showcase STEM education and curriculum access in Massachusetts high schools.
The Team
What I Did
- User interview
- User research
- Design system
- Lo-Fi wireframes
Jane Feng - Project Manager
Rishab Nayak - Technical Member
Zhassulan Kaishentayev - Technical Member
Mingxi Wu - UX Designer
User Interviews
Conducted 3 in-depth user interviews with professionals in different fields that represent our users.
- Boston parents are more concerned about the lottery school system for Boston exam schools
- Higher ranked school have better resources
Vernee Wilkinson
System Management and Diversity Equity Inclusion Conultant
- All data is public now, but people have hard time accessing it
- Some districts have very advanced programs on CS (Example: Burlington High School offers CS Internship program)
Anne Demallie
Digital Literacy and Computer Science Implementation Lead
- CSinCA’s data is driven by county, which is easier to clean up compared to district level
- They are working on displaying the data on a website
Deborah Boisvert
CSforMA Executive Director
