Summative Evaluation of “SciGirls” Season Two: Television Series & Website

December 19th, 2012 | EVALUATION

Produced by Twin Cities Public Television, St. Paul, MN, and sponsored by the National Science Foundation, SciGirls (SG) is a multimedia project for upper grade-school and middle-school tweens. Weekly half-hour episodes are tied in with web and outreach activities in the fields of science, technology and engineering. Multimedia Research, an independent evaluation group implemented a summative evaluation of the SG Season Two multimedia project. Fifth grade girls (N = 87) viewed three shows over three weeks. They could visit the SG website at any time but were required to visit and play a Pick'm Stick'm game after viewing the third show.

Document

SG2_SummativeEval_2012.pdf

Team Members

Barbara Flagg, Evaluator, Multimedia Research
Twin Cities Public Television, Contributor

Funders

Funding Source: NSF
Funding Program: AISL
Award Number: 1114739
Funding Amount: 2780888

Related URLs

SciGirls TV Series, Website and Outreach - Season Two

Tags

Access and Inclusion: Women and Girls
Audience: Elementary School Children (6-10) | Evaluators | Middle School Children (11-13) | Museum | ISE Professionals
Discipline: Education and learning science | Engineering | General STEM | Nature of science | Technology
Resource Type: Evaluation Reports | Summative
Environment Type: Broadcast Media | Games | Simulations | Interactives | Media and Technology | Websites | Mobile Apps | Online Media