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Early Childhood STEM Ecosystem NSF Planning Grant

This evaluation report provides a brief review of the National Science Foundation (NSF) planning grant, Creating an Early Childhood STEM Ecosystem, as of August 2019. The purpose of the evaluation was to provide an external, independent overview of the work completed and some of the lessons learned to date.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Allison Titcomb Ida Rose Florez
resource evaluation Media and Technology

Executive Summary: Bringing Science Home with PEEP

This summary report gives an overview of the Bringing Science Home with PEEP project research and key findings.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Megan Silander Michelle Cerrone Leslie Cuellar Lindsey Hiebert Jennifer Stiles
resource evaluation Media and Technology

Bringing Science Home with PEEP: Using Digital Media to Foster Family Engagement in Science at Home

PEEP Family Science is a collaboration among the WGBH Education and Children’s Media teams, Education Development Center (EDC) researchers and staff, and parents participating in programs with two home visiting organizations: AVANCE in Texas and HIPPY in Arkansas. The project aims to foster joint media engagement and hands-on science exploration among diverse, low-income 3- to 5-year-old children and their parents through the development and testing of an app-based science intervention. This report presents the project background, research questions, study method, and findings of the research
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TEAM MEMBERS: Megan Silander Michelle Cerrone Leslie Cuellar Lindsey Hiebert Jennifer Stiles
resource evaluation Exhibitions

Construction Zone Exhibition Summative Evaluation: Miami Children's Museum

The Miami Children’s Museum (MCM) contracted RK&A to conduct a summative evaluation of the Construction Zone exhibition, which was funded in part by IMLS. The evaluation focused on understanding the overall experience for walk-in visitors to the exhibition. It also explored visitor experiences with three specific exhibits with attention to problem-solving, experimentation with building materials, and collaboration. How did we approach this study? RK&A used two methodologies to evaluate the exhibition: interviews and focused observations. RK&A conducted 51 open-ended interviews with a
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TEAM MEMBERS: Katie Chandler
resource evaluation Media and Technology

AHA! Island Media and Hands-On Activity Sets: A Formative Research Report

AHA! Island is a new project that uses animation, live-action videos, and hands-on activities to support joint engagement of children and caregivers around computational thinking concepts and practices. This research is intended to examine the extent to which the prototyped media and activity sets support the project’s learning goals. Education Development Center (EDC), WGBH’s research partner for the project, conducted a small formative study with 16 English-speaking families (children and their caregivers) to test out these media and activity set prototypes. During the in-person video
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TEAM MEMBERS: Marisa Wolsky Heather Lavigne Jessica Andrews Leslie Cuellar