Found 9357 results. Change search to: repository and web pages combined or website only.
REPOSITORY | RESEARCH
The varied and diverse ways in which people engage with STEM are often not acknowledged due to the historical representation of STEM in school, industry, and society. These cultural models...
DATE: May 7th, 2019
REPOSITORY | RESEARCH
When everybody engaging in STEM is expected to adhere to dominant cultural norms established by the populations that have historically participated in and institutionalized STEMâthat is, male, white, western, and...
DATE: May 7th, 2019
REPOSITORY | RESEARCH
Science communicators and educators need strategies to account for the differences in ways that learners build on prior knowledge and experiences, and position these differences as strengths, rather than as...
DATE: May 7th, 2019
REPOSITORY | RESEARCH
Learning is a lifelong, life-wide, and life-deep process. Narrow definitions of learning as consisting only of conceptual knowledge can limit how we engage people with and in STEM. Science communicators...
DATE: May 7th, 2019
REPOSITORY | RESEARCH
Though many communities are now undertaking collective efforts to transform who participates in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), the informal science education and science communication sectors are largely peripheral...
DATE: May 6th, 2019
REPOSITORY | RESEARCH
To help informal STEM education (ISE) and science communication groups reflect on and strengthen their efforts to broaden participation in STEM, CAISEâs Broadening Participation in STEM Task Force developed a suite...
DATE: May 1st, 2019
REPOSITORY | RESEARCH
Given the current level of Galeophobia, or fear of sharks, thatâs an excellent question. Most people will leave the water immediately if they think a shark is in the area....
DATE: April 26th, 2019
REPOSITORY | EVALUATION
The National Building Museum (NBM) contracted RK&A, Inc. to conduct a summative evaluation of the Why Engineering? distance learning program. The goal of the evaluation was to assess program operations...
DATE: April 26th, 2019
REPOSITORY | EVALUATION
RK&A conducted a summative evaluation of five climate change and resiliency programs at the Science Museum of Virginia (SMV). The summative evaluation was the culmination of a three-year grant from...
DATE: April 26th, 2019
REPOSITORY | RESEARCH
Informal STEM education (ISE) organizations, especially museums, have used evaluation productively but unevenly. We argue that advancing evaluation in ISE requires that evaluation capacity building (ECB) broadens to include not...
DATE: April 25th, 2019
REPOSITORY | RESEARCH
Informal STEM education institutions seek to engage broader cross sections of their communities to address inequities in STEM participation and remain relevant in a multicultural society. In this chapter, we...
DATE: March 1st, 2019
REPOSITORY | RESEARCH
The freeâchoice nature of informal STEM education (ISE) makes rigorous and contextually appropriate evaluation of outcomes challenging. Traditional measures such as surveys and interviews have been widely used in ISE...
DATE: March 1st, 2019
REPOSITORY | RESEARCH
We define "informal STEM education" and explain some of the reasons its outcomes are so inherently challenging to evaluate, including the critical need for ecological validity and the fact that...
DATE: March 1st, 2019
REPOSITORY | RESEARCH
The STEM Interest and Engagement (STEM IE) Study was a four-year project funded by the National Science Foundation under the auspices of its Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program that...
DATE: December 31st, 2018
REPOSITORY | RESEARCH
Parents are vital players in raising youthâs awareness of the value of STEM and in brokering their participation in activities that build STEM competencies.
STEM Next Opportunity Fund is committed to...
DATE: April 17th, 2019
REPOSITORY | EVALUATION
â6 Degrees of Connectionâ is an informative and memorable program that combines a one-hour Science On a SphereÂŽ interactive presentation with a follow-up creative art activity â each aspect of...
DATE: February 1st, 2017
REPOSITORY | RESEARCH
In informal STEM education, thinking about engagement has evolved from a focus on innovative ways of attracting the initial attention of science center/museum visitors or media consumers to strategies for...
DATE: April 11th, 2019
REPOSITORY | RESEARCH
The landmark 2009 National Research Council consensus report Learning Science in Informal Environments, posited that learners in informal environments âexperience excitement, interest, and motivation to learn about phenomena in the natural and...
DATE: April 11th, 2019
REPOSITORY | RESEARCH
In everyday language, one might define âidentityâ as the way that people answer questions such as: âWho do I think I am, or who can I be, where do I...
DATE: April 11th, 2019
REPOSITORY | EVALUATION
The Field Museum contracted RK&A to conduct a summative evaluation of the Grainger Science Hub and the Discovery Squad Carts, two museum experiences facilitated by educators or trained volunteers. The...
DATE: April 11th, 2019
REPOSITORY | PROJECT
The HOWL science team set out to analyze the quality of the Hofmann Forestâs watershed in order to understand the Hofmannâs place in the coastal ecosystem as a whole and...
DATES: August 31st, 2016 - June 1st, 2018
REPOSITORY | EVALUATION
The Collaboration for Ongoing Visitor Experience Studies (COVES) aims to help science centers gather and share data to better understand visitorsâ experiences. For the summative evaluation of COVES, the Museum...
DATE: January 25th, 2019
REPOSITORY | EVALUATION
Citizen science, also known as participatory research, combines the efforts among professional researchers and community volunteers to collect data. We have established a collaborative project in eastern North Carolina, near...
DATE: June 1st, 2018
REPOSITORY | RESEARCH
âReclaiming Digital Futuresâ is a free guide and associated website for youth organizations to use as they integrate digital learning into their programming and practices. The report is available at...
DATE: March 18th, 2019
REPOSITORY | RESEARCH
This is a summary description of the 2018 Summer Science Camp offered by the Morgridge Institute for Research at the Discovery Building on the UW-Madison campus. The camp has been offered annualy...
DATE: July 9th, 2018
