STEM Education and Training

STEM Education & Training TIG Week: Issues in Scaling out a STEM Summer Camp for Students in JROTC by Jim Van Haneghan and David Reider

We are Jim Van Haneghan (Professor and Chair, Dept. of  Counseling and Instructional Sciences, University of South Alabama) and David Reider (Principal Partner with eDUCATIONDESIGN).  Over the past several years we have been part of a project that has examined a STEM summer camp that combines STEM and workforce development considerations in a population that …

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STEM Education & Training TIG Week: Building Trust within Liberatory STEM Ecosystems by Angelicque Tucker Blackmon and David Sul

Hello, we are Drs. Angelicque Tucker Blackmon and David Sul, independent evaluation consultants and members of the AEA STEM TIG. Historically, BIPOC candidates have been excluded at some point along their journey within the STEM ecosystem (Figure 1), which often results in STEM evaluators “othering” excluded BIPOC STEM program participants and categorizing them as different …

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STEM Education & Training TIG Week: Evaluating a 6-week Virtual Pilot for American Indian 9th and 10th Graders by Linnea Hjelm

Hi there! My name is Linnea and I am a PhD Candidate in the School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. As a member of the STEM TIG, I’m excited to share with you all a bit about a project I helped direct and our evaluation approach. The Short-Term Research Experience Program to …

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STEM Education & Training TIG Week: Rethinking the Story of STEM Career Interest by Callie Dean

Hello! My name is Callie Dean, and I am a program evaluator with The Evaluation Group, where I work on several projects related to STEM and computer science education. Because of the overwhelming need to expand and diversify the STEM workforce, many organizations have developed initiatives for K-12 students with the goal of increasing awareness …

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STEM Education & Training TIG Week: Measuring STEM Outcomes in Young Students by Kathy Dowell

Hello! My name is Kathy Dowell and I am an evaluator at The Evaluation Group. In my 25+ years as a program evaluator I have worked with many STEM-focused programs to assess student outcomes. Recently, I have worked with STEM projects that target young students (Grade K-8), and one challenge I have consistently run into …

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STEM Education & Training TIG Week: Using Crowdsourcing to Update STEM Evaluation Repositories by Melissa Page

Hello! I am Melissa Page, an evaluator with The Evaluation Group, and the incoming STEM TIG Social Chair. I am excited to bring to the forefront again our STEM TIG Repository as well as several other websites that offer surveys that may meet your STEM needs. No one should reinvent the wheel when searching for …

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STEM Education & Training TIG Week: Make it Phenomenal! Connecting Classrooms with Digital Place-Based Science Phenomena by Tiffany Morgan and Cori Hyde

Hello! We are Cori Hyde, Research and Evaluation Scientist with the Research Institute for Studies in Education (RISE) at Iowa State University and Tiffany Morgan, Instructional Media Coordinator for Iowa PBS’s Iowa Science Phenomena.  Iowa Science Phenomena is a website and service dedicated to the creation, curation, collection and sharing of Iowa focused user-generated, media-based …

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STEM Education & Training TIG Week: Moving Beyond National Assessments: One Positive Impact of COVID-19 by Tom Withee and Marcia Nation

Greetings from Tom Withee, Goshen Education Consulting, and Marcia Nation, Nation Evaluation Consulting. We came into evaluation from other career paths and now are evaluating formal and informal STEM education programs from our respective bases in Edwardsville, Illinois and Tempe, Arizona. COVID-19 upturned K-12 education in many ways, and these impacts will resonate into the …

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STEM Education & Training TIG Week: Piecing Together a STEM Shared Measurement System Through Community Collaboration by Tracy McMahon and Gary Silverstein

We are Tracy McMahon (Education Development Center) and Gary Silverstein (Westat) on behalf of the NSF INCLUDES (Inclusion Across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science) Coordination Hub. The Hub supports NSF INCLUDES and its National Network, which brings together the power of many in a shared vision to …

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STEM Education & Training TIG Week: Decreasing Intersectional Barriers in Youth Interventions by Shetay Ashford-Hanserd and Kathy Haynie

It’s me again, AEA365. Today’s is another that comes from the AEA365 archives, this time originally posted in 2020. This post is full of resources for conducting culturally responsive evaluations. Perhaps you’ll find something new for your evaluator toolkit. Hi, we are Shetay Ashford-Hanserd and Kathy Haynie, and we had a panel discussion at AEA 2019 entitled, “Intersectionality, …

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