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Citizen science has the potential to provide participants with information about conservation issues and to encourage additional conservation actions. In this case study, we describe the current state of conservation...

Citizen science has the potential to provide participants with information about conservation issues and to encourage additional conservation actions. In this case study, we describe the current state of conservation...

Building on program assessments and feedback, the Plains Art Museum will scale up its youth leadership-building program, Buzz Lab. The paid summer internship program engages teens in student-led, project-based learning...

This article explores the ways museums can utilize portable devices (i.e cell phones) as a way to engage visitors in their exhibits. Featured are three museums experimenting with this technology...

Are you interested in co-creating fun activities that exercise groups’ engineering practices? Are you curious about the types of practices that groups can exercise through exhibits? The Framework of Collaborative Practices...

The CADRE Early Career Guide offers advice from experienced DR K-12 awardees on becoming a successful researcher in the field of STEM education. The guide also profiles a support program,...

The CADRE Learning Series includes webinars with people sharing experience and expertise combined with opportunities for dialog during consultations.  In Part 1 of this Learning Series, attendees heard from researchers who have used or designed observational tools in their DRK-12 research. Participants learned about a range of tools, their various uses and limitations, in the hopes ... Read more

Inverness Research and Oregon State University, with support and input from CAISE, conducted an evaluation of the 2021 NSF AISL Awardee Meeting which was held virtually October 19-21, 2021. The...

CAISE was one of the resource centers funded by the NSF’s Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings (DRL) within the Education and Human Resources (EHR) directorate that support and connect principal investigators and their projects. The AISL resource center, which became known as CAISE, was initially established in 2007. In August ... Read more

On August 23 and 24, 2018, the Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education (CAISE) Evaluation and Measurement Task Force brought together a small group of informal STEM education (ISE) and science communication (SciComm) professionals. Generously hosted by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Chevy Chase, Maryland, the convening was designed to open up the ... Read more

The analysis contained in this report was prepared for the CAISE Convening on Broader Impacts & ISE. The report summarizes interviews with researchers in STEM subjects who were asked about:...

The Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education (CAISE) will host the 2016 Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) Principal Investigator (PI) Meeting, as part of our cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation (NSF). We ask that AISL PIs save the date for this year’s meeting, to be held February 29th – March 2nd, 2016, ... Read more

The Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education (CAISE) will convene an engaging Edit-a-Thon session at the 2015 Association of Science-Technology Centers Annual Conference in Montréal, Canada. The session will take place on Monday, October 19 at 2:30 PM-5:30 PM in Symphonie 3 at the Hyatt Regency Montréal. Participants will be invited to collaboratively create ... Read more

Are you currently developing a project with a goal of broadening participation in science, technology, engineering, or math (STEM) among traditionally underrepresented groups? The Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education (CAISE) and the Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC) conducted a digital resource curation workshop to identify relevant funded projects from the InformalScience.org repository. A ... Read more

This guide is intended to provide a starting point for those developing proposals and projects designed to broaden participation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) through informal learning experiences....

The Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education is dedicated to strengthening the field of informal STEM education (ISE) by supporting and building on the rich diversity of projects supported by the Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program of the National Science Foundation (NSF). Under a cooperative agreement with NSF, the Center provides resources and ... Read more

From June 20-21, CAISE held a convening on evaluation in informal science education as a part of our Evaluation Capacity Building Initiative. This convening was one in a series of activities that CAISE is undertaking to provide opportunities and resources to enhance understanding of the role of evaluation in ISE, and to improve practices and ... Read more

As part of its ongoing Practice-and-Research (PaR) initiative, the Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education (CAISE), in collaboration with the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL)...

As part of its Practice-and-Research initiative, the Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education (CAISE) has been hosting a series of field-wide discussions to explore the current and potential connections...

Over the past few years a growing number of projects and organizations have aimed to develop research agendas for different sectors in informal science education. Research agendas—when developed with input from a variety of stakeholders—can help frame the questions and topics that matter most to both practitioners and researchers in the ISE field. Last month, ... Read more

This document provides an overview of the CAISE Fellows Program, which sought to develop and support diverse leadership across the spectrum of the informal science education (ISE) field--leaders who, together,...

The EBSCO Education Research Complete database is now available to users of InformalScience.org. The database makes available abstracts for more than 2,400 journals and full-text access for over 1,000 journals. The database also includes full text for hundreds of books and monographs, and full text for numerous education-related conference papers. Topics include education, social science ... Read more

Further thoughts on actions, reflections or insights from the CAISE Media Convening in July 2011. Participants were asked: As a result of this experience, do you think differently about being in media? In way way(s)? Ari Epstein, MIT: The variety in this field (STEM media) is very great, not only in the varieties of media ... Read more

An important outcome for the CAISE Media Convening was to identify and prioritize critical issues faced by ISE media producers, and then develop a set of shared objectives around which...

Participant list from the July 2011 CAISE convening on Media in ISE....