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The overall goal of the Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education (CAISE) Equity Audit has been to assess CAISE as an organization, and its operations and products through a...
DATE: September 1st, 2022
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Tinkering experiences in informal learning spaces can engage families in engineering practices and support learning (Pagano et al., 2020). Further, reflections after informal learning experiences can reveal and extend children’s...
DATE: April 20th, 2023
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Tinkering activities designed for parents and children can foster spatial thinking, which benefits spatial skill development (Ramey et al., 2020). During tinkering activities, families may be challenged to use tools...
DATE: March 25th, 2023
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The tinkering process of making, testing, and iteratively redesigning projects can teach children about engineering concepts (Marcus et al., 2021; NGSS, 2013), but there is variability in how tinkering programs...
DATE: March 24th, 2023
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In this project, we asked whether storytelling during tinkering might support children’s engagement in STEM and how that may differ across boys and girls. According to Bruner (1996), stories can...
DATE: March 25th, 2023
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Given the important role of autonomy support in children’s motivation and learning, this study asked whether parents’ use of autonomy supportive language (vs. controlling language) was associated with children’s engagement...
DATE: March 25th, 2023
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This summary brief captures highlights from the second year of the NSF-funded WaterMarks project. The technical evaluation report for this same project period can be found on the main project...
DATE: November 8th, 2023
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This poster from the 2023 ASTC conference provides and overview of research from the NSF funded Designing Our Tomorrow project. This research study examined storytelling approaches used by caregivers and educators...
DATE: October 7th, 2023
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In dozens of ways, youths' lives are shaped by data. Yet, youth seldom have the opportunity to pull back the curtain on data science to experience how data are collected,...
DATES: September 1st, 2023 - February 28th, 2026
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The National Science Foundation, particularly the Directorate for STEM Education, has long funded work to support collaborations between researchers and practitioners, and to promote the application of research to improve...
DATES: September 1st, 2023 - February 28th, 2025
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This is the evaluation report for the second year of the NSF-funded WaterMarks project. It reflects a current summary of available evidence about the intended outcomes of program activities to...
DATE: October 12th, 2023
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This award establishes a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and research center at the federally owned site in Arecibo, Puerto Rico and location of the Arecibo Observatory. Arecibo...
DATES: October 1st, 2023 - September 30th, 2028
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The Grand Canyon region is the ancestral homeland of eleven Indigenous Nations, the Traditionally Associated Tribes of Grand Canyon, who possess rich land-based expert knowledge of Earth processes and features....
DATES: September 1st, 2023 - August 31st, 2024
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Through increasing attention paid to out-of-school contexts, research is showing that powerful science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) meaning-making is possible when helping young people see the everyday practices that...
DATES: September 1st, 2023 - August 31st, 2024
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This project aims to advance racial equity in outdoor and environmental science education (OESE) by co-developing, implementing, and studying a replicable model for organizational capacity building and transformation. This project...
DATES: January 1st, 2024 - December 31st, 2028
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Native people are significantly underrepresented in science, engineering, and math (STEM) fields. This poses a problem for equity, and it diminishes the contribution of Native worldviews and technologies used for...
DATES: January 1st, 2024 - December 31st, 2025
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The institutional cohort postdoctoral fellowship program for Community Engaged Disciplinary and Educational Researchers in STEM (CEDERS) is designed to enhance the research knowledge, skills, and practices of recent doctoral graduates...
DATES: October 1st, 2023 - September 30th, 2026
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The New York Hall of Science (NYSCI), will recruit and support two postdoctoral fellows, who will spend 24 months conducting research in residence with NYSCI's diverse staff, audiences, and local...
DATES: October 1st, 2023 - September 30th, 2026
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Despite efforts to foster inclusivity in Informal Science Learning (ISL), achieving equity remains challenging. Learners and professionals in the ISL field predominantly experience science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) through...
DATES: October 1st, 2023 - September 30th, 2026
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Community-engaged schooling focuses on assets, perspectives, questions, and solutions emerging from communities and is beneficial for a wide array of students not always included in STEM. Infrastructure is needed to...
DATES: October 1st, 2023 - September 30th, 2025
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Increased access to mobile phones and other internet capable devices has created new opportunities for adult learner audiences to engage in community science programs, which rely on volunteers to provide...
DATES: September 15th, 2023 - August 31st, 2026
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This project examines the historical and contemporary manifestations and possibilities of a diasporic Black community's aspirations for STEM educational justice in Evanston, Illinois, a racially diverse suburb of Chicago with...
DATES: September 15th, 2023 - August 31st, 2028
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This partnership project seeks to address the assessment needs of maker (sometimes called tinkering) spaces and relating programs that have opened in recent years in many science and children's museums...
DATES: September 15th, 2023 - February 28th, 2025
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The Building Supports Towards a Useful, Usable, and In-Use Framework of Professional Competencies in the Informal STEM Learning Field (AISL #2215274) project is working toward creating professional learning and development...
DATE: October 3rd, 2023
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A panel to explore the transferability of the Framework and the underlying research from the DACUM Competency Profiles across types of informal science institutions was held at COSI on March...
DATE: October 3rd, 2023
