December 1st, 2017 | RESEARCH
This purpose of this review was to identify characteristics common across professional development frameworks within emerging professions (i.e. fields that are not regulated or licensed) and to identify practices and heuristics from those fields that could inform our work. The review began with; 1) creating a protocol for searching for frameworks; 2) identifying criteria for selection of representative frameworks; and 3) developing strategies for recording and sharing content with the research team. From the initial inventory of frameworks, we articulated a set of criteria for selecting a handful of professional frameworks to review. Five frameworks were selected for systematic review.
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Team Members
kris morrissey, Author, University of WashingtonKirsten Gausch, Author
Dennis Schatz, Author, Pacific Science Center
Funders
Funding Source: NSF
Funding Program: AISL
Award Number: 1514890
Funding Program: AISL
Award Number: 1514884Funding Source: NSF
Funding Program: AISL
Award Number: 1514815Funding Source: NSF
Funding Program: AISL
Award Number: 1515315
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Tags
Audience: Evaluators | Museum | ISE Professionals
Discipline: Education and learning science | General STEM
Resource Type: Reference Materials | Report
Environment Type: Professional Development | Conferences | Networks | Professional Development and Workshops