Build IT is a technology fluency program for middle school girls developed by SRI International and Girls Inc. of Alameda County. One of the program's goals is to encourage participants to explore and pursue careers in STEM fields. To do this, girls create technologies and meet women working in...
Gorges_Measuring Subtle Shifts_AEA 2009_public.pdf
This session was presented at the 2010 AEA conference in San Antonio. It contains PDFs of PowerPoints presented by Kathleen Tinworth, Cheryl Kessler, Joe E. Heimlich, Carey Tisdal, and Claudia Figueiredo. #Informal #2010Conference #museums #timing #Instruments #HowTo ...
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This panel presented results from a research study about evaluation capacity building in the NISE Net, a national network supporting informal education about nanoscience
2015 AEA CASNET combined slides.pptx
The resources include: 1) a coding framework for informal education evaluation reports, 2) an NVivo database with 520 reports that are coded based on our framework, 3) a spreadsheet that provides an additional way to search the coded reports, 4) a file with all the reports included in the database, 5) an Endnote library with citation information for all of the reports, and 7) an online community where people can find BISE synthesis papers and engage in conversations around the BISE database, findings, and implications for evaluation
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Here is the abstract: The evaluation lead for SCIENCES (Supporting a Community's Informal Education Needs: Confidence and Empowerment in STEM) will address the factors of the NSF-funded project that led the creating a community-based evaluation team in Chicago's Fuller Park neighborhood
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(AEA 2010 Poster Presentation 137) This paper describes the three-year evaluation of an effort funded by the National Science Foundation to: 1) increase college-bound females’ understanding of engineering, 2) inspire young women to explore engineering as a career and 3) help counselors and...
Evaluation of Engineer Your Life_Paulsen.pdf
Informal Information Technology (IT) education programs serving girls between grades 6 – 12 were surveyed to identify practices effective in engaging girls in IT. Women are significantly underrepresented in IT education paths and careers and many programs aim to increase girls’ interest to...
Promising Practices for Engaging Girls in IT.pdf
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The presentation from Jeremy Paley and Aimee White about creating a international shared measurement system for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation #sharedindicators #collaborativedesign #Non-ProfitsandFoundationsEvaluation #Collaborative,ParticipatoryandEmpowermentEval ...
Final CIMS AEA presentation Oct 2013.pdf
Presenter(s): Gina Svarovsky, Science Museum of Minnesota, gsvarovsky@smm.org Amy Grack Nelson, Science Museum of Minnesota, agnelson@smm.org Abstract: Evaluation projects involving evaluators distributed across the country can have several benefits, but also present a range of challenges....
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This think tank will explore the challenges and best practices of working with and relating to stakeholders in program evaluation. Presenters will share their experiences with engaging stakeholders from various fields, disciplines, or populations. Central to this discussion will be the notion...
Positionality Matters Understanding Culture and Context From the Perspective of Key Stakeholders.pdf