Summary of evaluation activities for NSF AISL 1611953

This evaluation brief summarizes the kinds of formative feedback and resources that Rockman et al evaluators provided to inform content and marketing of two science cafés, and support the construction, refinement, and dissemination of a questionnaire about café participants understanding of Science Technology and Society (STS).  REA staff members served as educational assessment consultants who worked with the project team to (a) qualitatively assess the validity of and refine the constructs for the science café assessment tool; and (b) construct and refine the summative assessment questionnaire. The evaluators also conducted a focus group with five members of Richmond’s African American community, and reviewed drafts of project deliverables such as a conference poster and a research manuscript. This brief shares examples of these evaluation activities and the ways in which the PI incorporated the evaluators’ feedback in project activities and deliverables.