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Project BUILD Summative Evaluation Report

The Space Science Institute’s (SSI) National Center for Interactive Learning (NCIL), in partnership with the American Society for Civil Engineers (ASCE) and the University of Virginia (UVA), was awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop and implement a 3-year program, Project BUILD (Building Using an Interactive Learning Design). Project BUILD aims to bring together public library staff from six libraries (three rural and three urban) and professional engineers from ASCE to engage youth in grades 2-5 and their families in age-appropriate, technology-rich
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TEAM MEMBERS: Jennifer Jocz Sara Greller
resource evaluation Public Programs

Art Experiences & Advancing Science Literacy Instruments

This set of appendices represent all research instruments related to study presented in the I/CaLL Art Experiences and Advancing Science Literacy report (NewKnowledge Publication #NSF.097.115.07). Appendix A: Installation Site Intercept Interview Instrument Appendix B: Artists-Scientists Walk & Talks Instrument Appendix C: Post-Performance Event Survey Instrument Note that researchers did not use an instrument for the fourth aspect of the study, the post-performance event reflection sessions. Instead, they allowed the discussions to be directed by the reflection participants.
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TEAM MEMBERS: John Fraser Rebecca Joy Norlander Sophie Swanson Nezam Ardalan Kate Flinner Joanna Laursen Brucker Nicole LaMarca
resource evaluation Afterschool Programs

Design Squad Global Summative Evaluation Report

In 2017, Concord Evaluation Group (CEG) conducted a summative evaluation of Design Squad Global (DSG). DSG is produced and managed by WGBH Educational Foundation. WGBH partnered with FHI 360, a nonprofit human development organizations working in 70 countries, to implement DSG around the globe. In the DSG program, children in afterschool and school clubs explored engineering through hands-on activities, such as designing and building an emergency shelter or a structure that could withstand an earthquake. Through DSG, children also had the chance to work alongside a partner club from another
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TEAM MEMBERS: Christine Paulsen Marisa Wolsky Sonja Latimore Steven Ehrenberg
resource research Public Programs

Library and afterschool partnerships: How afterschool providers are working together with public libraries

How do afterschool programs view their local public libraries? Are they working with them, and in what ways? These are the questions that the Afterschool Alliance, along with its partners at the Space Science Institute’s National Center for Interactive Learning (NCIL) and the American Library Association, wanted to answer. Overall, our goal is to build bridges between the afterschool and library fields, so that both can share knowledge and resources to better serve our youth. While our work together has primarily focused on science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education through
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TEAM MEMBERS: Afterschool Alliance Paul Dusenbery Robert Jakubowski Anne Holland Laine Castle Keliann LaConte
resource evaluation Media and Technology

Terrascope Youth Radio at Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Final Evaluation Report

In MIT’s NSF-funded Terrascope Youth Radio (TYR) program, urban youth, many from groups historically underrepresented in the sciences, worked as paid interns who received training in radio production, reporting and writing stories with scientific content and audio storytelling to create environmentally oriented audio pieces that were engaging and relevant to their own and their peers’ lives. Teen interns participated between July 2008 and Autumn 2012. TYR’s goals were to improve a broad audience of teens’ engagement with, knowledge of, and attitudes about science, technology, engineering, and
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TEAM MEMBERS: Karen Gareis Massachusetts Institute of Technology Karina Lin Irene F Goodman
resource evaluation Public Programs

Youth Astronomy Apprenticeship - An Initiative to Promote Science Learning Among Urban Youth and Their Communities

The Youth Astronomy Apprenticeship (YAA) is a yearlong, out-of-school time initiative that connects urban teenage youth with astronomy as an effective way to promote scientific literacy and overall positive youth development. The program employs the strategies of a traditional apprenticeship model, common in crafts and trades guilds as well as in higher education. During the apprenticeship, youth develop knowledge and skills to create informal science education projects: through these projects they demonstrate their understanding of astronomy and use their communication skills to connect to
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TEAM MEMBERS: Emma Norland Massachusetts Institute of Technology Susan Foutz Mike Krabill
resource evaluation Public Programs

Parent Partners in School Science: Parent Engagement Research Study

In 2001, The Franklin Institute Science Museum (TFI) received funding from the National Science Foundation to develop and implement Parent Partners in School Science (PPSS). A year project, PPSS was designed to demonstrate how a science museum can facilitate K-4 children's science learning in and out of school, working with teachers and parents from 3 urban elementary schools in Philadelphia. More specifically, three goals have informed the implementation of PPSS: 1) Promote science teaching at the elementary level; 2) Cultivate home-school collaboration in support of students' science
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TEAM MEMBERS: Jessica Luke Franklin Institute Science Museum Martha Washington Academics Plus Olney Elementary School R.B. Pollock Elementary School Susan Foutz