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Join Arlene deStrulle and STEM+C Program Officers in a discussion of NSF’s STEM+C Solicitation and Awards (Proposal Deadline March 29). RSVP Now! Integrating Computational Thinking And Computing In Pre-K-12 STEM Teaching And Learning This webinar will be held multiple times in the coming months and are free and open to the public. To RSVP, click on one ... Read more

The Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC) has been hosting a series of webinars on topics related to engaging the public in science research and findings through their Public Engagement with Science Community of Practice (CoP). The most recent webinar in the series featured the latest research on how participating in public engagement can affect the ... Read more

As of this month, CAISE is no longer operating our old website, insci.org. That site now redirects to informalscience.org. Please update your links accordingly, and please also note the following about CAISE-related sites: The ISE Evidence Wiki now redirects to the Evidence Wiki in the Research section of informalscience.org. The Informal Commons (informalcommons.org) remains live. ... Read more

The Relating Research to Practice (RR2P) website recently got a facelift and was relaunched earlier this week. The website has over 300 short research briefs, free for download. Each brief summarizes a STEM-related research study conducted in classrooms, informal, and everyday settings. Visit the new site at http://relatingresearchtopractice.org. Individual briefs are also searchable in the InformalScience.org ... Read more

The Center for Innovative Research on Cyberlearning (CIRCL), a partnership between SRI International, EDC, and NORC at the University of Chicago held the 2014 Cyberlearning Summit on June 9–10 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In the spirit of cyberlearning, the event was webcast and virtual participation was encouraged. The two-day summit featured panels, twitter discussions, ... Read more

Presenters at this year’s 28th Annual Visitor Studies Association Conference revisited the topic of research agendas, and focused on what it means to implement a research agenda, and on the process of integrating them into one’s practice. Some of the big questions discussed were, “Now that field-wide research agendas have been developed, how can we ... Read more

“All of the professions that traffic in the dissemination of what’s known by science, should use science to help their crafts to evolve to be exactly what they want them to be.”–Dan Kahan, Yale University. The Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival held its third biennial Science Media Awards and Symposium at public media outlet WBGH ... Read more

What is the state of the art in how we assess outcomes of informal STEM experiences? In early December 2013, a group of six informal STEM learning assessment projects met for a two-day, deep dive on this question at the offices of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation in Palo Alto, California. The projects had ... Read more

In March 2014, CAISE participated in the summit on Advancing Opportunity for Quality Science Learning organized by the Coalition for Science After School. This blog post, prepared by the summit’s organizers, reports out on that meeting, and the conclusion of 10 years of work by the Coalition to advance opportunities for doing STEM outside of ... Read more

The inaugural Public Libraries & STEM Conference (funded in part through NSF #1413783) brought together more than 150 thought leaders from the library and STEM education communities in Denver, CO on August 20-22, 2015, to discuss the opportunity space that libraries present to help provide STEM experiences to underserved communities. Slides and notes from the conference ... Read more

This post was written by Carlin Hseuh, Project Manager for the World Biotech Tour, and Grace Troxel, Digital Librarian for CAISE. On May 5-6 2015, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Roundtable on Public Interfaces of the Life Sciences hosted a discussion entitled “Trust and Confidence at the Intersections of the Life Sciences and Society.” ... Read more

This past March, the annual meeting of the National Association for Research on Science Teaching (NARST) was held in Pittsburgh, PA. About 50 science education researchers and practitioners attended a four-hour workshop that explored strategies for building collaborations between researchers and practitioners, described the opportunities and challenges of two ongoing collaborations, and helped researchers sharpen ... Read more

Top image: Kevin Crowley, co-PI of CAISE, discusses research agenda development at a session at the 2014 AISL PI Meeting. The theme of this summer’s Visitor Studies Association (VSA) conference was Building Capacity for Evaluation: Individuals, Institutions, the Field. One session addressed the role that research agendas are playing in building capacity among researchers and ... Read more

This is a guest post from Saskia Traill, Vice President for Policy and Research at The After School Corporation (TASC), with contributions from CAISE project director Jamie Bell. The original post was published on Saskia’s blog at the TASC site. #ThrowbackSTEMDay: The author, right, dons a crisp lab coat as an eager young hospital volunteer. ... Read more

Out-of-School STEM Learning: A National Summit was held by the National Research Council’s Board on Science Education on June 3-4, 2014. This two-day summit took place at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC. The workshop brought together approximately 120 participants, 30 speakers, and 12 expert committee members to help inform the committee’s development ... Read more

NEW STORY: Following the Lead of Practitioner Partners This recent blog post highlights work from a research-practice partnership between the University of Washington, Exploratorium, and Lighthouse Community Charter School. The story describes how practitioners and researchers worked collaboratively to develop a school conference presentation and tinkering activity. researchandpractice.org/following-practitioner-lead   NEW PAPER: Science Education Journal Focus on ... Read more

The National Science Foundation (NSF) invites those interested to attend an informative webinar— Updates to the NSF Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide (PAPPG) (NSF 24-1) on Tuesday, March 12, from 2:00 – 3:00 PM EST. There is no cost to participate.   The webinar will cover changes and clarifications to the PAPPG which will be effective ... Read more

We recently passed a milestone—more than 1,600 members have now joined InformalScience.org since the site launched one year ago. To improve the site and better serve this growing community, we at CAISE would like to know a bit more about you. If you are a site member, please log in and take a moment to ... Read more

The 3rd USA Science & Engineering Festival Expo will take place Saturday, April 26-Sunday, April 27 at the Walter E. Washington Center in Washington, D.C. Join over 250,000 students and parents, 5,000 educators, and 3,000 STEM professionals at this free celebration of STEM. Participants include more than 750 of the world’s leading professional scientific and ... Read more

This article was migrated from a previous version of the Knowledge Base. The date stamp does not reflect the original publication date. Overview With the rising ubiquity of mobile technologies, mobile tools and platforms for learning are also growing. At present, there are myriad mobile apps for teaching and learning (e.g., KidGrid helps teachers track ... Read more

Authors: Alicia Torres, Isabel Griffith, Gabriel Pina, Claire Kelley, Sarah Kelley, and Isai Garcia-Baza   Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic has created unprecedented hardships for families across the globe and has heightened emotional, economic, and educational stressors. In response to widening disparities during the pandemic, Child Trends was awarded a one-year RAPID grant from the National ... Read more

The Knowledge Base (formerly the ISE Evidence Wiki) is a collaboratively generated resource designed to streamline access to and share qualitative and quantitative evidence about the impacts of informal STEM learning on a range of audiences in a variety of settings. Articles in the Knowledge Base are intended to be data-supported claims that can be ... Read more

This research brief, Developing critical consciousness in science education: A Science Education research brief discussing Tsurusaki’s article, “ Using Transformative Boundary Objects to Create Critical Engagement in Science: A Case Study” has been made available by Relating Research to Practice (RR2P). RR2P provides short synopses of current peer-reviewed research relevant to informal science education (ISE). ... Read more

The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program supports a range of projects within the field of informal science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education. The current NSF AISL Program Solicitation #17-573 is a three-year solicitation covering 2017, 2018, and 2019. Proposals for the next round of funding are due on Wednesday ... Read more

Next month, CAISE will be Tweeting from the Citizen Science Association (CSA) conference and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting. Follow us on Twitter (@informalscience), and Like us on Facebook, for more updates. The Citizen Science Association’s first conference will take place from February 11-12, 2015, in San Jose, California ... Read more