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Embedding Public Engagement with Science at Long-term Ecological Research Sites Year 3 Final Evaluation Report

This is the final evaluation report from RMC Research Corp. for the PES@LTERs project. Appendix includes instruments. RMC Research designed evaluation activities to provide formative and summative feedback to Harvard Forest and the Hubbard Brook Research Foundation (Hubbard Brook) on their plan to embed public engagement with science (PES) into the cultures and practices of Long-Term Ecological Research Sites (LTERs) in the northeastern US. The purpose of this project was to build PES mechanisms into long-term ecosystem studies that create on-going, open exchanges between scientists and
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TEAM MEMBERS: Sarah Garlick
resource evaluation Public Programs

COVES Summative Evaluation Findings

The Collaboration for Ongoing Visitor Experience Studies (COVES) aims to help science centers gather and share data to better understand visitors’ experiences. For the summative evaluation of COVES, the Museum of Science’s Research and Evaluation Department studied the program’s impacts on participating museums and museum professionals. Specifically, this evaluation was designed to: Examine participants’ overall satisfaction with the collaboration and their likelihood to recommend it to others; Understand the impact that COVES is having on Participating Institutions; Assess whether
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TEAM MEMBERS: Marta Beyer Keith Allison
resource evaluation Public Programs

NFB STEM2U Regional Evaluation Report: San Francisco

As part of a grant from the National Science Foundation, the National Federation of the Blind (NFB) is conducting regional STEM workshops in partnership with local science museums, entitled NFB STEM2U, for blind youth [youth], grades 3 – 6 and 9-12 [apprentices]. During the fifth regional workshop in San Francisco, CA, the NFB operated two different programs simultaneously: one program for youth and a second program for their parents/caregivers. A third program, for the Exploratorium staff, was conducted earlier to prepare the museum staff to assist with the youth program. A separate report
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TEAM MEMBERS: Mary Ann Wojton Joe E Heimlich
resource evaluation Media and Technology

InformalScience.org User Study

InformalScience.org is an online collection of resources designed to serve a broad community of professionals whose work relates to informal education in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). Funded by the National Science Foundation and managed by the Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education (CAISE), InformalScience hosts a variety of usercontributed resources, including a wiki of evidence-based information on the impacts of informal STEM and a database of over 7,000 reports, articles, project descriptions, and other items uploaded by CAISE and website members. The
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TEAM MEMBERS: Claire Quimby Vanessa Vega
resource evaluation Public Programs

National Living Laboratory: Creating Communities of Learners for Informal Cognitive Science Education [Summative Evaluation Report]

This summative evaluation report details the Broad Implementation of the Living Laboratory model--an initiative to promote partnership between museums and cognitive science researchers in order to promote professional learning and involve the public in scientific research. The evaluation investigated the extent of the dissemination effort’s depth, spread, sustainability, and shift in ownership, based on Coburn’s criteria for scale-up (2003). Evaluators collected data from surveys, interviews, focus groups, document review, and observations. Findings about depth suggest that adopters fully
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TEAM MEMBERS: Katherine Todd Sarah Pfeifle Lorrie Beaumont Marta Biarnes Becki Kipling
resource evaluation Public Programs

NISE Network: Overview of the NISE Network Evaluation

Nanoscience is an emerging scientific field, and therefore an increasing amount of funding is flowing into nanoscience and nanotechnology research, including money from the federal government. Several studies of public understanding and public attitudes toward nanoscience have shown that most of the public is generally uninterested in and unmotivated to learn about nanoscale science and technology3. Because this emerging interdisciplinary field of science offers so much promise, and because it will have an increasing presence in everyday life, the NSF is committed to increasing public
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TEAM MEMBERS: Mark St. John Jenifer V. Helms Nanoscale Informal Science Education (NISE) Network Pam Castori Judy Hirabayashi Laurie Lopez Michelle Phillips
resource evaluation Professional Development, Conferences, and Networks

Year Five Site Visits: Formative Evaluation

As part of community building efforts, the Nanoscale Informal Science Education (NISE) Network undertook regional site visits during Year 5 of the project. The purpose of the site visits was to deepen relationships with a small group of partners. The Network Community Group saw the site visits as an opportunity to create a stronger sense of community within the Network and build institutions' capacity to engage their local public in nano. Partners with the highest potential to infuse nano into their institution and/or become actively involved with the Network were chosen for a site visit. A
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TEAM MEMBERS: Amy Grack Nelson Gayra Ostgaard Nanoscale Informal Science Education (NISE) Network