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Building Broader Knowledge: Supporting Children’s Active, Outdoor Science Exploration in Urban Environments
Date: 05/06/2108
Resource Category: Report
This report looks across multiple phases of work to discuss the PLUM Rx project’s contribution to broader knowledge about supporting children’s active, outdoor science exploration in informal, urban settings. The PLUM LANDING Explore Outdoors Toolkit that resulted from this work is designed for use by outdoor prescription programs and a broad ... »
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Poster: Visitor Interests and the Dynamics of Interpreter-Visitor Conversations in National Parks
Date: 07/19/2019
Resource Category: Conference Proceedings
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 study, researchers at the Institute for Learning Innovation set out to understand how visitor interests ... »
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An informal science education program's impact on STEM major and STEM career outcomes
Date: 04/04/2019
Resource Category: Peer-reviewed article
While there is extensive evidence that STEM careers can be important pathways for augmenting social mobility and for increasing individual prestige, many youth perceive a STEM trajectory as an unattractive option. In the US, women and members of historically marginalized racial and ethnic groups, continue to be underrepresented across STEM ... »
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Support Systems for Scientists’ Communication and Engagement: Summary of Initiative, Landscape Reports and Workshops
Date: 02/10/2019
Resource Category: Conference Proceedings
This workshop series, convened by the Kavli, Rita Allen, Packard and Moore Foundations, was intended to view the entire system of people who support scientists’ engagement and communication efforts in order to explore how this system can be most effective and sustainable. The discussions examined where this system is thriving, the limits people ... »
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Collaborative Project Management (CoPM) Poster
Date: 02/09/2019
Resource Category: Conference Proceedings
This poster will be presented at the 2019 NSF AISL PI Meeting to represent the Playbook resource arising from the Collaborative Project Management (CoPM) Institute. The Institute will be held February 13 through 15, 2019 in Arlington, Virginia. The Institute will bring together ten collaborative project leaders (28 participants from 20 ... »
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Goodwill without Guidance: College Student Outreach Practitioner Training
Date: 01/29/2019
Resource Category: Peer-reviewed article
Chemistry-specific informal science education (chemistry outreach) is widely practiced across all levels of the chemistry community. College students associated with American Chemical Society and Alpha Chi Sigma collegiate chapters are one population of chemistry outreach practitioners who reach upward of 1 million people every year. Previous ... »
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Keep Making: A Design Case Study on Supporting Kids to Geek Out on Their Own Time
Date: 01/27/2019
Resource Category: Report
How do we support continued engagement in creative production, even after youth leave our events and programs? As youth development educators and learning scientists interested in supporting long-term, interest driven learning around digital media, we took a crack at this problem, and we hope the lessons we share in this design case study might ... »
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“He saw I had a loving for it”: Youth Interest Signaling as a Means of Generating Social Support in Technology Pathways
Date: 01/27/2019
Resource Category: Report
In this research study, we explore the ways that youth engage in “interest signaling”, actions youth undertake that communicate their needs in ways that motivate adults and peers to mobilize resources to support them. We highlight how interest signaling is a key factor driving the process of brokering – signals are critical mechanisms for adults ... »
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Acercar las fronteras entre el museo y la escuela como escenarios educomunicativos (Approaching the borders between museum and school as edu-communicative scenarios)
Date: 01/23/2019
Resource Category: Peer-reviewed article
This article shares the results and reflections on the research process conducted by the Maloka Interactive Museum (https://www.maloka.org/) regarding the implementation of the policy that extends the school day in public schools in Bogotá. Based on ethnographic observations, focus groups and interviews with the participants, the text concludes ... »
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Are the Fields of Informal Science Education and Science Communication Adjacent or Connected? A Bibliometric Study of Research Journals from 2012 to 2016
Date: 01/02/2019
Resource Category: Report
Informal Science Education (ISE) and Science Communication (SciComm) are two overlapping but distinct fields that support engagement in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) in a variety of settings. Though fluid boundaries and fuzzy definitions make a clear distinction between ISE and SciComm difficult, the two fields nevertheless ... »
