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Let’s Do Chemistry Train-the-Trainer Workshop Summative Evaluation

ChemAttitudes: Using Design-Based Research to Develop and Disseminate Strategies and Materials to Support Chemistry Interest, Relevance, and Self-Efficacy (ChemAttitudes, NSF DRL-1612482) is a collaborative project between the Museum of Science, Boston (MOS), the National Informal STEM Education Network (NISE Net), and the American Chemical Society (ACS) among others. As a part of this project, researchers and educators from MOS and the Science Museum of Minnesota (SMM) used design-based research to create chemistry hands-on activities meant to positively impact visitors’ attitudes towards
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TEAM MEMBERS: Elizabeth Kollmann Owen Weitzman
resource research Public Programs

Organizational Approaches to Systemic DEAI Change in the Informal Science Education Field

Framing: Broadening participation and achieving equitable outcomes has been a core goal of the science museum field for over two decades. However, how to make progress has proven an intractable problem. Methods: Focusing on five organizations who officially committed to diversity, equity, access, and inclusion (DEAI) by participating in a national professional development program, the researchers investigate how science museums attempt to enact internally-focused change via a mixed methods case study. Findings: While these organizations considered a variety of structurally focused change
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TEAM MEMBERS: Marjorie Bequette Megan Goeke Gretchen Haupt Choua Her
resource evaluation Professional Development, Conferences, and Networks

A2A Planning Workshop Evaluation

The attached evaluation is of the A2A (Awareness to Action) Planning Workshop held February 21-23 in two locations simultaneously connected by internet: the University of Colorado, Boulder and Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey. It was made possible thanks to a collaboration of the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR) and EcoArts Connections, with additional assistance from the National Center for Atmospheric Research. A2A brought together 39 natural and social scientists, artists, urban planners, “sustainablists” (e.g. sustainability professionals working in a variety
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TEAM MEMBERS: Marda Kirn Elizabeth Bachrach Simon
resource evaluation Professional Development, Conferences, and Networks

The Cosmic Serpent Story: Summative Evaluation for Final Report

Cosmic Serpent (NSF No. DRL-0714631 and DRL-0714629) is a professional development effort that supports collaboration with integrity between science museum professionals and Native communities and/or tribal museums. Cosmic Serpent aims to create awareness of the value and integrity of Native science paradigms among museum practitioners, support them in connecting Native worldviews to Western science learning; and nurture sustainable collaborations between science museums and Native communities around featuring multiple worldviews of science in informal settings. The primary component of the
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TEAM MEMBERS: Jill Stein Indigenous Education Institute Shelly Valdez Eric Jones