Pushing the Limits Building Capacity to Enhance Public Understanding of Math and Science through Rural Libraries Front-End Evaluation Report

September 30th, 2011 | EVALUATION

This is the Front End Evaluation report for the NSF-AISL-funded Pushing the Limits: Building Capacity to Enhance Public Understanding of Math and Science through Rural Libraries (Limits) project. A national survey of rural librarians and their patrons was carried out between February and April 2011. Key guiding questions were: 1) How interested/motivated are rural librarians in: a. Providing science and technology related programming at their libraries; b. Participating in professional development for running public programs; c. Personally learning about science and technology topics. 2) How interested/motivated do rural librarians believe their adult patrons will be in attending public programming in general and the four proposed programs in particular? 3) How interested/motivated are adult rural library patrons in generally attending public programming and the four proposed themed science and technology programs?

Document

2014-10-28_Limits_Summary_Front-End.pdf

Team Members

Dartmouth College, Contributor
John H Falk, Co-Principal Investigator, Oregon State University
Jennifer Bachman, Contributor, Oregon State University
Michael Liu, Contributor, Oregon State University

Funders

Funding Source: NSF
Funding Program: ISE/AISL
Funding Amount: 2508018

Related URLs

Pushing the Limits: Building Capacity to Enhance Public Understanding of Math and Science Through Rural Libraries

Tags

Access and Inclusion: Rural
Audience: Adults | Educators | Teachers | Museum | ISE Professionals
Discipline: Education and learning science | General STEM | Technology
Resource Type: Evaluation Reports | Front-End
Environment Type: Library Programs | Public Programs