Leaders of the only two large-scale assessments of environmental literacy used in the U.S. to date (Programme for International Student Assessment [PISA] and the National Environmental Literacy Assessment [NELA]), led by an experienced PI representing the North American Association for Environmental Education, to develop a new, comprehensive, research-based framework for assessing environmental literacy. By bringing together, for the first time, experts in research, assessment, and evaluation from the fields of science education, environmental education, and related social science fields -
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Joe E HeimlichNorth American Association for Environmental Education
Led by KQED in Northern California, a network of seven public media organizations around the country joined to form the QUEST Regional Hubs Collaborative project. Funded with grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), this project aimed to achieve the adaptation of a successful cross-platform media production model and the creation of a content-sharing collaborative. Rockman et al (REA), an educational research and evaluation firm in San Francisco, served as the external evaluator to document the development of both the regional