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REPOSITORY | RESEARCH

Teen-adult interactions during the co-design of data literacy activities for the public library: insights from a natural language processing analysis of linguistic patterns

Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore teen-adult dialogic interactions during the co-design of data literacy activities in order to determine the nature of teen thinking, their emotions, level of engagement, and the power of relationships between teens and adults in the context of data literacy. This study conceives of co-design as a learning space for data literacy. It...

DATE: April 8th, 2024

REPOSITORY | RESEARCH

Methods of Engaging Teens in Conversations about Personal Digital Data: Public Library Context

This paper reports on research that asks, “How might Youth Data Literacy be supported through informal, after-school activities at the library?” The goal of the project is to build a youth-oriented model of data literacy which incorporates social-awareness, critical approaches, and “goodness of fit” into informal STEM learning about data. To this end, the project has been working with teen...

DATE: July 29th, 2022

REPOSITORY | RESEARCH

Co-Designing Data Labs at the Public Library: Data Literacy with, for, and by Teens

Presents research investigating youth data literacy at the public library. The Data Literacy with, for, and by Youth project is framed by principles of participatory design, and asks, how might an informal STEM learning environment such as the public library, support the development of the skills, knowledge, and dispositions that young people need for them to take charge of their...

DATE: March 4th, 2022

REPOSITORY | EVALUATION

Collaborative Research: The Notion of Failure and Maker Programming for Youth: Supporting the Professional Development, Reflection, and Learning of Informal Educators

This report presents the final summative evaluation of Collaborative Research: The Notion of Failure and Maker Programming for Youth: Supporting the Professional Development, Reflection, and Learning of Informal Educators, funded by the National Science Foundation through the Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program. The evaluation was conducted by Monika Mayer, the project’s external evaluator. The report examines the development, implementation,...

DATE: March 16th, 2026

REPOSITORY | EVALUATION

Creative Problem-Solving in Visitor Studies Methods: A Workbook for Project Planning

This resource is intended to support people planning visitor studies in thinking through the successful implementation of context-sensitive data collection. The core of the workbook is a series of "weigh stations" to help you reflect on our suggested considerations for study planning: the Utility of different methods for responding to your needs, the Capacity needed to carry out the study,...

DATE: February 27th, 2024

REPOSITORY | RESEARCH

2026 AISL Awardee Mini-Poster: 2415503