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This poster provides an overview, program goals, evaluation plan, and research questions for the AISL project, Techbridge Broad Implementation: An Innovative Model to Inspire Girls in STEM Careers. The poster...

Poster on NSF grant DRL-1008546 (""The Handheld Signing Math & Science Dictionaries for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Museum Visitors Research Project"") at the 2012 ISE PI Meeting....

The Studio is a small change-ready exhibit space embedded within the Wellbody Academy, a 7,000 ft2 permanent exhibit on health and wellness. The Studio showcases up-to-date research on topics like...

As a result of colonization and loss of culture in indigenous tribes across the world, there is a dire need to document and share the Traditional Ecological Knowledge that Native...

This poster was presented at the 2018 Visitor Studies Association Conference. iSWOOP is a multi-year, multi-focus project, bringing national park-based research to visitors through innovative scientist-park ranger collaborations. As part of...

This poster was presented at the 2014 AISL PI Meeting in Washington, DC. It describes a project that uses youth and community programs to promote freshwater literacy and water conservation....

This poster was presented at the 2020 American Alliance of Museums (AAM) Virutal Conference. The Informal STEM Learning (ISL) Professional Competency Framework was developed and validated through research with professionals...

The Yellowstone Altai-Sayan Project (YASP) brings together student and professional researchers with Indigenous researchers and communities in domestic and international settings. 4 MSU and 2 tribal college student participants engaged...

This poster presents an overview of Youth Radio's NEXT innovation Lab. It was presented at the 2014 AISL PI Meeting in Washington, DC....

From August 20th-22nd, CAISE convened the 2014 Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) Principal Investigators (PI) Meeting in Washington, DC. This meeting brought together more than 250 representatives from the diverse informal STEM learning field, including PIs and project staff from active AISL projects funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), evaluators, researchers, directors of education ... Read more

Posters presented at the NSF Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) Principal Investigators’ Meeting held in Bethesda, MD from February 29-March 2, 2016 are now available for viewing. Principal Investigators and meeting attendees displayed and discussed more than 150 posters, representing a wide variety of AISL-funded projects  during the meeting.The posters below are loosely organized by ... Read more

In this comment, we focus on the ways power impacts science communication collaborations. Following Fischhoff's suggestion of focusing on internal consultation within science communication activities, we examine the ways such...

During March 2017, Kathy Burke and Kari Nelson conducted a study of visitors to the special exhibition, The Power of Poison. The objective of this study was to discover how...

In this paper, we describe our approach to designing electronic puppet-building workshops for middle to early high school students. Power Puppet uses traditional puppet building materials - paper and cloth...

This article describes the way that an afterschool center and school begin to collaborate, using the analogy of moving from friendship to dating and marriage....

This project plans to develop a partnership with KCTS Public Television, Laubach Literacy Action, and the National Alliance of Urban Literacy Coalitions to develop an implementation plan to promote higher...

The project is the development of a working prototype that demonstrates the humanities ideas, technology, and public outreach for Pox in the City, a Unity 3D strategy game. Pox in...

The Boston Children's Museum will collaborate with Action for Boston Community Head Start Programs and Evergreene Research and Evaluation on an integrated research-to-practice project whose focus is science learning by...

This paper briefly reviews label guidelines and includes information on where to obtain the references....

Informal learning institutions, such as museums, science centers, and community-based organizations, play a critical role in providing opportunities for students to engage in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) activities...

CDC provides its funded programs with a wide range of evaluation resources and guides. State health departments, tribal organizations, communities, and partners working in a variety of public health areas...

Agenda April 19-20, 2013 Participant List April 19-20, 2013 Draft Roadmap for Practice and Research in ISE Categories and Topics for ISE Research and Practice Beginning in 2012, CAISE embarked on a Practice and Research initiative, in response to increased interest in identifying the grand challenges of informal STEM education and in exploring the possibility ... Read more

Agenda Jan 31-Feb 1, 2013 Participant List Jan 31-Feb 1, 2013 Summary of Research Agenda Processes Initiative Survey Synthesis Practice-and-Research Forum Responses Participant Thought Cards Beginning in 2012, CAISE embarked on a Practice-and-Research (PaR) initiative, in response to increased interest in identifying the grand challenges of informal STEM education and in exploring the possibility of ... Read more

Research on how museum staff are trained continues to emerge. Training varies considerably across institutions and typically includes observations, shadowing, and trial and error. While museum educators put high value...

Our goal in creating this guide is to provide practitioners, organizations, researchers, and others with a “one-stop shop” for measuring nature connections. The guide is for those interested in assessing...