Research Report for the Pulsar Search Collaboratory-2018

August 31st, 2018 | RESEARCH

The education research component of the Pulsar Search Collaboratory (PSC) seeks to determine how the PSC experience affects the science identity and STEM career intentions of its participants and how individual programmatic elements influence persistence. These questions are investigated by comparing pre-­‐survey and post-­‐survey results and by examining the participant’s interaction with the PSC online portal.

This report d pre/posistilled t survey data that examines student participants’ STEM intentions along a number of dimensions: Science/Engineering Identity, Self-­‐Efficacy, Science Career Interest, and Sense of Belonging. Each construct is probed with multiple Likert scale questions.

Survey items are given in the appendix.

Document

AnnualReportPSC2018_0.pdf

Team Members

Sue Ann Heatherly, Principal Investigator, Green Bank Observatory
Maura McLaughlin, Principal Investigator, West Virginia University

Funders

Funding Source: NSF
Funding Program: Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL)
Award Number: 1516269

Funding Source: NSF
Funding Program: Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL)
Award Number: 1516512

Related URLs

Collaborative Research: Developing STEM self-efficacy and science identities through authentic astrophysics research in online and face-to-face environments (STEM-ID)

Tags

Audience: Educators | Teachers | Museum | ISE Professionals | Scientists | Youth | Teen (up to 17)
Discipline: Space science
Resource Type: Reference Materials | Report | Research and Evaluation Instruments | Scale | Survey
Environment Type: Afterschool Programs | Citizen Science Programs | Public Programs | Summer and Extended Camps