AEA365 Contributor, Curated by Elizabeth DiLuzio

Greetings, we are Lana Rucks (Principal Consultant, The Rucks Group, LLC), Imelda Castaneda–Emenaker (REaCHall, LLC), Michael FitzGerald (The Rucks Group, LLC), Leela Hebbar (Social Policy Research Associates (SPR)) and Thomas Singer (Sinclair Community College). Through our combined work, we are striving to illuminate methods to increase the availability of evaluation resources by identifying effective practices …

STEM TIG WEEK: Evaluating Industry Engagement in STEM Education Initiatives by Lana Rucks, Imelda Castaneda-Emenaker, Michael FitzGerald, Leela Hebbar, and Thomas Singer Read More »

We are Callie Dean of CYBER.ORG , Kimberly Cowley of ICF, and Tom Withee of Goshen Education Consulting. We serve as internal (Callie) and external (Kim and Tom) evaluators of three different federally funded programs, which each address different sectors within the STEM educational ecosystem: Pre-K12 schools, extracurricular initiatives, and higher education.The Federal STEM strategy …

STEM TIG WEEK: 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 Read More »

Hi, we are Sophia Mansori, Tracy McMahon, Evangeline Ambat, and Leslie Goodyear from Education Development Center. We received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to do exploratory and foundational work experimenting with a community of practice as a way to engage with and build the capacity of NSF STEM evaluators. The primary goal …

STEM TIG WEEK: 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 Read More »

We are Alan Melchior and Tatjana Meschede, Senior Researchers at Brandeis University’s Heller School, and Nancy Boyer, Director of Evaluation and Impact at FIRST, a global nonprofit providing STEM programs to youth ages 4 through 18.  Over the last 9 years FIRST and Brandeis have been working together on a longitudinal study assessing the long-term …

STEM TIG WEEK: Disseminating Results to Engage Multiple Audiences by Alan Melchior, Tatjana Meschede and Nancy Boyer Read More »

Hi! We are Val Marshall, Megan Zelinsky, and Lyssa Wilson Becho from EvaluATE, the evaluation hub for the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program. For over two decades, EvaluATE has administered an annual monitoring survey to capture ATE program activities. We refer to this survey as the ATE Survey. Over time, we’ve …

STEM TIG WEEK: Adapting Monitoring Surveys to Respond to and Engage a Community by Val Marshall, Megan Zelinsky, and Lyssa Wilson Becho Read More »

Hello! We are Karen Peterman (www.consultkp.com) and David Sul (www.sulandassociates.com), the outgoing and current Chairs of the STEM Education and Training TIG. Until last year, our TIG had a small and active leadership team and we met as a larger community at the annual meeting. The pandemic changed that.  Today’s blog, and those that follow …

STEM TIG WEEK: Engaging Others, Engaging Ourselves: Lessons from across the STEM Learning Sector by Karen Peterman and David Sul Read More »