Martha Cecilia Bottia

Martha Cecilia Bottia
University of North Carolina at Charlotte | UNC Charlotte · Department of Sociology

PhD

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Introduction
I am a Research Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. My research interests include immigrant, minority, and gender issues in educational opportunities; school racial and ethnic composition effects, pathways to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics; and drug policies.
Additional affiliations
July 2011 - present
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Position
  • Assistant Research Professor
July 2010 - June 2011
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Position
  • PostDoc Position

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Publications (42)
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Although many students exhibit interest and demonstrate academic preparedness in math and science, a significant proportion of students do not major in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. These students encounter systemic barriers to STEM opportunities related to their intersecting gender and racial/ethnic identities. T...
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This article investigates whether attending a sequence of racially diverse schools predicts science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) college outcomes. Such a relationship is important because of the increasingly diverse population of school‐aged children who are likely to attend racially segregated K‐12 schools and colleges, the ben...
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Background/Context The underrepresentation of students from lower socioeconomic status (LSES) backgrounds among college graduates with science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) degrees, and consequently in STEM occupations, is a concern with respect to reducing, perpetuating, or increasing social inequality. The loss of their talent...
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Background Repeated calls to diversify the population of students earning undergraduate degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields have noted the greater diversity of community college students and their potential to thus have an impact on the racial/ethnic composition of 4-year degree earners. In this paper, we inve...
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The unanimous 1954 Brown v. Board of Education opinion is one of the most consequential legal decisions of the 20th century. Even though it concerned government sanctioned racial segregation of public schools, many legal scholars, policy makers, and citizens see Brown’s impact going well beyond ordering the dismantling of de jure segregated public...
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Racially minoritized students in the United States constitute 30% of the U.S. population, but students from these populations represent a smaller proportion of those who earn science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) undergraduate degrees. This disproportionality contributes to race/ethnic income, status, and power inequalities linke...
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Racial and ethnic differences in educational outcomes significantly narrowed during the 1970s and 1980s when K–12 public schools were desegregated. However, when schools resegregated starting roughly in the late 1980s, racial gaps in outcomes widened again. Because of literacy’s pivotal role in learning, the authors investigate if segregation contr...
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This article investigates whether attending a community college is related to an increase in the number of students majoring and graduating with degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) at four‐year colleges. We follow a longitudinal sample of students in North Carolina from middle school through college graduation, includ...
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The adoption of market theory as a guiding principle of education policy increased the need for assessments of school performance that families could use to compare academic benefits of attending one school to another. Prominent among measures used by states are the school proficiency and growth indicators resulting from high-stakes tests. Using a...
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Using a multimethod approach, we investigate whether gender gaps in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) major declaration in college are explained by differences in the grades that students earn in STEM versus non-STEM subjects. With quantitative data, we find that relative advantages in college academic performance in STEM ver...
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We analyze longitudinal data from students who spent their academic careers in North Carolina (NC) public secondary schools and attended NC public universities to investigate the importance of high school racial composition and opportunities to learn in secondary school for choosing a STEM major. We consider school racial composition and opportunit...
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This article investigates whether attending a high school that offers a specialized science, technology, engineering, and/or mathematics program (high school with a STEM program) boosts the number of students majoring in STEM when they are in college. We use a longitudinal sample of students in North Carolina, whom we follow from middle school thro...
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Latino/a students’ low mathematics achievement is a pressing issue given their increasing numbers in the United States. This study explores the relationship between teacher collaboration and Latino students’ math achievement, taking into account the great diversity of Latinos/as in America. Using multilevel growth models, we analyze Early Childhood...
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In this study we investigate Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) high school graduates’ academic performance in the first year of college and test whether their exposure to racial segregation in high school at both the school and classroom levels affected their college freshman grade point averages. Utilizing administrative data from the Roots of S...
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Given the prestige and compensation of science and math-related occupations, the underrepresentation of women and people of color in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics majors (STEM) perpetuates entrenched economic and social inequities. Explanations for this underrepresentation have largely focused on individual characteristics, incl...
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Public education is a sphere of society in which distributive justice with respect to the allocation of opportunities to learn can have profound and lasting effects on students’ educational outcomes. We frame our study in the distributive justice literature, and define just outcomes specifically from a meritocratic and strict egalitarian perspectiv...
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Background/Context Schools are integral to augmenting and diversifying the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce. This is because K–12 schools can inspire and reinforce students’ interest in STEM, in addition to academically preparing them to pursue a STEM career. Previous literature emphasizes the importance of high-qu...
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Schools are integral to augmenting, diversifying, and equalizing the STEM workforce because schools can inspire and reinforce students’ interest in STEM in addition to academically prepare them to be able to follow a STEM career. This study examines the influence of high school exposure to basic STEM courses, high school exposure to STEM-related en...
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This study examines the effect of attending a high school that offers a program focused towards science, technology, engineering and mathematics on students’ STEM college outcomes. Previous studies have looked at the impact of attending math and science focused schools mainly through qualitative analyses of isolated cases. In this study we look at...
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We argue that Latino/a students are more likely to major in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) in college if they were educated in high schools where they studied with satisfied teachers who worked in collaborative professional communities. Quantitative results demonstrate that collaborative professional communities in high school ar...
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Objective: The purpose of this study was to synthesize the results of prior research examining the rates of alcohol usage and intoxication among homicide offenders, and to examine the variability in these rates across various study-, offender-, and offense-characteristics. Method: We identified 23 independent studies from nine countries that report...
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Analyzing Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey Kindergarten (ECLS-K) data, we examine how exposure to instructional practices influences math test scores at the end of kindergarten for children from different racial/ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds, and for children with different levels of math skills at kindergarten entry. We also analyze the...
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Structural vulnerability theory proposes that educational outcomes emerge as organizational features of schools interact with students' individual characteristics. The organizational feature of interest in this paper is school racial, ethnic, and social class (SES) composition. This paper asks the following question: "Does school racial and SES com...
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Student engagement with school symbolizes efforts toward learning and is one of the strongest predictors of academic success. However, returns to engagement vary across racial and ethnic groups. Scholars have established that human agency is constrained by organizational environments, but they have not adequately assessed whether the advantages ass...
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Scholars have not adequately assessed how organizational cultures in schools differentially influence students’ mathematics achievement by race and socioeconomic status (SES). We focus on what we term collective pedagogical teacher culture, highlighting the role of professional communities and teacher collaboration in influencing mathematics achiev...
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Recently published social science research suggests that students attending schools with concentrations of disadvantaged racial minority populations achieve less academic progress than their otherwise comparable counterparts in more racially balanced or integrated schools, but to date no meta-analysis has estimated the effect size of school racial...
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This document assesses the performance of SISBEN as instrument for targeting health insurance for the poor, RS, since it was created after Law 100 of 1993. Evidence suggests that targeting of health insurance based on Viejo SISBEN for years 1997 and 2003 was acceptable. In addition, preliminary evidence available for 2007 shows that the introductio...
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Este documento analiza el desempeño del Sisben como instrumento de focalización del Régimen Subsidiado en Salud, RS, desde su introducción luego de la Ley 100 de 1993. La evidencia sugiere que la focalización del Régimen Subsidiado para los años 1997 y 2003, hecha con base en el Viejo Sisben, fue aceptable. Adicionalmente, la evidencia preliminar d...
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Este estudio utiliza variables sociales, econ�micas, geogr�ficas, ambientales, de presencia del Estado y pol�ticas para 1067 municipios colombianos, para hacer un an�lisis de los determinantes de la presencia y expansi�n de las FARC-EP. Se propone un modelo de rebeli�n como una actividad cuasi-criminal, basado en la teor�a de los conflictos interno...
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T he goals of promoting integration and avoiding racial isolation in K-12 education were recently reaffirmed as compelling government interests by five Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District #1 (2007). That decision did strike down specific elements of voluntary plans in Seattle and Lo...
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The dramatic increase of violence against the civilian population by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) has become one of the major problems of the Colombian armed conflict. Economic theories, such as rent-seeking arguments, have served as the dominant explanations of FARC's behavior. Nevertheless, in the case of the interpretation o...

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