Research Report for the Pulsar Search Collaboratory-2018

August 31, 2018 | Public Programs

The education research component of the Pulsar Search Collaboratory (PSC) seeks to determine how the PSC experience affects the science identity and STEM career intentions of its participants and how individual programmatic elements influence persistence. These questions are investigated by comparing pre-‐survey and post-‐survey results and by examining the participant’s interaction with the PSC online portal.

This report d pre/posistilled t survey data that examines student participants’ STEM intentions along a number of dimensions: Science/Engineering Identity, Self-‐Efficacy, Science Career Interest, and Sense of Belonging. Each construct is probed with multiple Likert scale questions.

Survey items are given in the appendix.

Document

AnnualReportPSC2018.pdf

Associated Projects

Collaborative Research: Developing STEM self-efficacy and science identities through authentic astrophysics research in online and face-to-face environments (STEM-ID)

TEAM MEMBERS

Sue Ann Heatherly

Principal Investigator

Green Bank Observatory

Maura McLaughlin

Principal Investigator

West Virginia University

Citation

Funders

NSF

Funding Program: Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL)

Award Number: 1516269

NSF

Funding Program: Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL)

Award Number: 1516512

Resource Type: Reference Materials | Research and Evaluation Instruments | Survey | Scale

Discipline: Space science

Audience: Youth/Teen (up to 17) | Educators/Teachers | Museum/ISE Professionals | Scientists

Environment Type: Public Programs | Afterschool Programs | Summer and Extended Camps | Citizen Science Programs

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