AEA365 Blog Posts

2021

STEM TIG Week: June 27 to July 2, 2021

• Engaging Others, Engaging Ourselves: Lessons from across the STEM Learning Sector, by Karen Peterman and David Sul
• Adapting Monitoring Surveys to Respond to and Engage a Community, by Val Marshall, Megan Zelinsky, and Lyssa Wilson Becho
• Disseminating Results to Engage Multiple Audiences, by Alan Melchior and Tatjana Meschede
• Rethinking What it Means to Engage Ourselves and Others to Build Capacity of STEM Evaluators, by Sophia Mansori, Tracy McMahon, Evangeline Ambat, and Leslie Goodyear
• Engaging with the work of those who came before us to Build and Measure STEM Self-Efficacy and Career Awareness, by Callie Dean, Kimberly Cowley, and Tom Withee
• Evaluating Industry Engagement in STEM Education Initiatives, by Lana Rucks, Imelda Castaneda-Emenaker, Michael FitzGerald, Leela Hebbar, and Thomas Singer

2020

STEM TIG Week: April 26 to May 1, 2020

• Toward an Interactive Hub – Welcome to STEM Education and Training Week! by Jason Ravitz
• Decreasing Intersectional Barriers in Youth Interventions by Shetay Ashford-Hanserd and Kathy Haynie
• Multi-modal Connecting with STEM Undergraduate Students to Increase Response Rates by Sharon O’Connor
• Generating and Supporting Innovative Strategies to Build Evaluation Capacity in Communities Historically Underrepresented In STEM by Frances Carter-Johnson, Felicia Fullilove, Mark Leddy, Regina Sievert, Simone Soso and Eric Stone
• Share and Share Alike: Challenges and Lessons Learned from Using Embedded Assessments as Shared Measures by Veronica Del Bianco, Cathlyn (Cat) Davis Stylinski, Rachel Becker-Klein, Amy Grack Nelson, Karen Peterman and Jenna Linhart
• CAISE’s Work to Support Evaluation in Informal STEM Learning Settings by Jamie Bell and Sasha Palmquist

2019

January 16, 2019

• Take time to consider the role of racialization when evaluating STEM interventions by Dawn Henderson, Chad Markert, and Breonte Guy

STEM TIG Week: March 17 to 22, 2019

• Building capacity of STEM evaluators: The landscape of people and resources in the field by Sophia Mansori, Tracy McMahon, Evangeline Ambat, and Leslie Goodyear
• Defying Stereotype Narratives on who can do STEM: Lessons from a Historically Black College and University (HBCU) by John Chikwem, Toks Fashola, Kevin Favor, and Monica Mitchell
• Speaking Truth to Power in Three NSF Evaluation Contexts by Ayesha Boyce, Adeyemo Adetogun, Cherie Avent, and Grettel Arias Orozco
• Parallels of Evaluation and Project Management by Robin Taylor, Erin Burr, and Ann Martin
• Tips for evaluating equity-focused STEM education programs that have good intentions but mixed results by Elizabeth Pierson, Sophia Mansori, Jamie Kynn, and Sara Greller
• Catalysts of Change: Out-of-School Time STEM Programs for Underrepresented Youth by Shetay Ashford-Hanserd, Garima Bansal, and Rosio Pedroso

April 16, 2019

• Introducing a Repository of STEM Education Evaluation Resources by Ann Martin, Kathy Haynie, David Fetterman, and Kimberle Kelly

2018

April 3, 2018

• Translating Logic Models for STEM faculty: A ‘Who, What, When, Why, and How’ Approach by Shelly Engelman, Kristin Patterson, Brandon Campitelli, and Keely Finkelstein

2016

March 20, 2016

• Amy Grack Nelson on Introducing the Building Informal Science Education Project

March 24, 2016

• Rebecca Teasdale on methods for evaluating public library STEM programs

April 6, 2016

• Jim Van Haneghan and Jessica Harlan on Interest in STEM: Lessons Learned

April 15, 2016

• Shelly Engelman and Tom McKlin on ‘Grit’ as a Measure of Academic Success

Research vs Eval Week: August 14 to 19, 2016

• Kirk Knestis on Revisiting Innovation R&D vs. Program Evaluation: What do we know two years post-Common Guidelines for Education Research and Development?
• Andrew Hayman on Research and Development for the NSF ITEST Program
• Laurene Johnson on Partnering with Education Program Designers and Practitioners on Research Proposals
• Lori Wingate on Evaluation and Research in the NSF’s Advanced Technological Education Program
• Dana Gonzales and Lonnie Wederski on IRB Review of STEM Learning Evaluations
• Kirk Knestis on Dissemination as a STEM Education Research Imperative

2015

January 14, 2015

• Anna Douglas on Engineering Education Assessment Instruments

STEM TIG Week: October 25 to 30, 2015

• Jason Ravitz on Embedding Evaluation in Design of CS Education Programs
• Taylor Martin on Evaluating Learning and Engagement in Active Learning Environments
• Wendy DuBow on Sharing Survey Instruments: We’ll Go First!
• Daisy Rutstein, Eric Snow and Marie Bienkowski on Aligning Assessment Purpose and Use in Measuring Students’ Computational Thinking Practices
• Jill Denner on Evaluating CS Education: Why and For Whom?
• Courtney Blackwell, Heather King, and Jeanne Century on Bringing Coherency to Evaluating Computer Science Education

2014

STEM TIG Week: February 9 to 14, 2014

• Ayesha Tillman on Advice to New Evaluators
• Martin, Barnes, Chambers and Pippin on Internal STEM Evaluation from a Stakeholder Perspective at NASA
• Susan Eriksson on Scientists Becoming Evaluators
• Kim Kelly on Key Insights on the Journey from Psychological Science Researcher to Program Evaluator
• Susan Eriksson on the Education of Stakeholders
• Sam Held on Federal Data Sharing Policies

August 15, 2014

• Kirk Knestis on Innovation Research and Development (R&D) vs. Program Evaluation

2013

STEM Week: March 10 to 15, 2013

• Jack Mills on STEM Education Evaluation in Higher Education
• Veronica Smith on Evaluating Student Learning in STEM Subjects
• Alyssa Na’im on Using Culturally and Contextually Responsive Practices in STEM Education Evaluation
• Cindy Tananis on STEM Evaluation: Getting Traction in STEM Education Reform
• Disa Cornish on Statewide STEM Initiative Evaluations
• Kim Kelly on Responding to National Curriculum and Policy Initiatives in STEM Education Evaluation

ECLIPS and Systems TIG Week: March 17 to 22, 2013

• Beverly Parsons and Veronica Thomas Welcome You to ECLIPS Week
• David Hata on Looking to Interconnections for Value Creation
• Lloyd Bingman and Pat Jessup on Seeing and Understanding Patterns in Systems
• Reider, Fitzhugh, and Na’im on Using the Systems Concepts of Boundaries, Relationships, and Perspectives to Identify Leverage Points
• Karen Peterman and Marah Moore on How a Systems Orientation Influences an Evaluator’s Role
• Tarek Azzam and Matt Keene Recap Systems-Oriented Evaluation

March 29, 2013

• Caryn Mohr on Connecting Primary Research to Community Indicators

March 31, 2013

• Video in #Eval Week: Kas Aruskevich on Telling the Story Through Video

August 1, 2013

• LAWG Week: Patricia Moore Shaffer on STEM Evaluation in Informal Settings

August 6, 2013

• GSNE Week: Kathayoon Khalil on Evaluating Informal Learning Environments

Climate Ed Eval Week: December 8 to 13, 2013

• Ann Martin on Building a Community of Climate Education Evaluators
• Nicole Holthuis on Lessons Learned from Measuring Intermediary Outcomes
• Susan Lynds on Considering Scientific Jargon to Avoid Communication Barriers
• Dan Zalles on Maintaining Flexibility in Evaluating Outcomes Across Varying Implementations
• Rachel Becker-Klein on Using Embedded Assessment Tools for Evaluating Impact of Climate Change Education Programs on Youths
• John Baek on Online Collection of Climate Knowledge Assessment Items

2012

May 22, 2012

• Shelly Engelman and Tom McKlin on ‘Grit’ as a Measure of Academic Success