An Evaluation Perspective on CAISE

This evaluation report highlights findings from the evaluation of the Center for the Advancement of Informal Science Education’s first five years of funding.  CAISE, funded through a cooperative agreement with NSF, in its first five years, was a partnership between The Association of Science-Technology Centers, the Institute for Learning Innovation, University of Pittsburgh Center for Learning in Out-of-School Environments, the Visitor Studies Association and other collaborators, who stewarded the development of an Informal Science Education (ISE) resource center to support ongoing improvement of the national infrastructure for informal science education, through supports of the ISE field and Principal Investigators funded through the ISE/AISL program at NSF, and supports of the ISE/AISL program at NSF.