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Science in After-School Market Research Study (2008)

In 2008, CSAS conducted a market study in partnership with the Center for Research, Evaluation, and Assessment (REA) at the Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS), University of California, Berkeley, with funding from the S. D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation. The purpose of the market study was to help answer some highly practical questions for CSAS, including: Which after-school programs are "doing" science? What exactly are they doing? What are their needs? By collecting data that answered these questions, CSAS proposed to gain a greater understanding of existing science programs in after-school settings
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TEAM MEMBERS: Bernadette Chi Jason Freeman Shirley Lee
resource research Public Programs

Nine to Nineteen: Youth in Museums and Libraries: A Practitioner's Guide

This guide grew out of the Institute of Museum and Library Services’ Museums and Libraries Engaging America’s Youth initiative and draws on the wide body of research and knowledge from the fields of youth development and informal learning, as well as from the rich experience of museum and library professionals and volunteers. The specific goals of the initiative are: to examine what works, to share best practices to encourage effective programming to build bridges with policy makers.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Mary Downs
resource research Media and Technology

Fostering Learning in the Networked World: The Cyberlearning Opportunity and Challenge, June 2008, NSF Task Force on Cyberlearning

An agenda on cyberlearning programs and projects funded by the National Science Foundation.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Christine L. Borgman
resource research Media and Technology

Framework for Evaluating Impacts of Informal Science Education Projects

The March 12-13, 2007 workshop at NSF on informal science education evaluation brought together a distinguished group of experts to discuss how impact categories might be best applied to various types of informal learning projects. This publication is an outcome of that meeting. The authors have strived to make the sections as helpful as possible given the primary focus of this workshop on project impacts. It should be viewed as part of an ongoing process to improve the ways in which evaluation can most benefit ISE projects, NSF, and the field. The publication is intended to help those
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TEAM MEMBERS: Alan Friedman Sue Allen Patricia Campbell Lynn Dierking Barbara Flagg Cecilia Garibay Randi Korn Gary Silverstein David Ucko
resource research Media and Technology

How Might Native Science Inform "Informal Science Learning"? (Commissioned Paper)

To address the Informal Science Learning for Indigenous communities raises a number of issues. What is “informal” and how does this notion influence the everyday lived lives of Indigenous peoples? Can we separate the informal from the formal, and is the nexus of the two a productive place from which to explore, teach, and pursue science in Indigenous communities? This commissioned paper attempts to begin addressing these questions.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Bryan Mckinely Jones Brayboy Angelina Castagno