Roads Taken: Long-Term Impacts of STEM Youth Programs

January 1st, 1970 | RESEARCH

The Roads Taken Conference Report provides information and results from the virtual conference held in October and November 2016.

Representatives from ten long-standing youth programs, experts in out-of-school time (OST) youth programming, and researchers participated in the Roads Taken virtual conference in October and November 2016, funded by the National Science Foundation (DRL-1644479). Participants collaboratively developed a Program Profile template with dual purposes: a tool for practitioners and a tool for researchers. As the first phase the three-part plan, Program Profiles will eventually lead to a reinvigorated youth programming network of practitioners, a searchable database of program profiles, and research on long-term impact of youth programming.

The appendix includes the conference's summative evaluation report and the Program Profile Template.

Document

Roads-Taken-Conference-Report-022117.pdf

Team Members

Christine (Kit) Klein, Author, Insight for Learning Practices
Carey Tisdal, Author, Tisdal Consulting
Wendy Hancock, Author, Association of Science-Technology Centers
Sue Allen, Evaluator, Allen & Associates

Funders

Funding Source: NSF
Funding Program: AISL
Award Number: 1644479

Related URLs

Roads Taken: Long-Term Impacts of STEM Youth Programs

Tags

Audience: Educators | Teachers | Evaluators | Museum | ISE Professionals | Youth | Teen (up to 17)
Discipline: Education and learning science | General STEM
Resource Type: Conference Proceedings | Evaluation Reports | Reference Materials | Research and Evaluation Instruments | Summative | Survey
Environment Type: Conferences | Professional Development | Conferences | Networks