STEM Education and Training

Hi, I’m Alicia Kiremire, Owner of FlowStream Management in Ruston, Louisiana. I found evaluation after I was an engineer, STEM academic advisor, project manager, and grant writer. The work I’ll share in this post brings together two of my favorite things – grants and capacity development! Specifically, our framework focuses on university STEM faculty; but […]

We are Melanie DiLoreto and John Pecore, faculty members in the School of Education at the University of West Florida. We are writing to highlight a language disconnect between academic faculty and field-based practitioners that we recently observed while serving as external evaluators for a grant awarded to a science center and museum that promotes

Hello, my name is David Sul and, for the past five years, I have taught a QuantCrit methods course for the University of San Francisco School of Education. I would like to share my rationale behind the claim: Culturally specific assessment can be the engine that drives QuantCrit-informed STEM evaluations. Rad Resource A review of

Hi readers! We are Je’Kylynn Steen and Kim Gregson with Collaborators Consulting Group. CCG is a team of researchers, evaluators, and strategists who help organizations advance sustainable, transformative change through collaborative, utilization-focused research and evaluation. In this post, we share our process for designing a student advisory board (SAB) in our external evaluation of the

Happy spring to our AEA community! My name is Linnea Hjelm-Reed, Research Associate with Everett Evaluation. I’ve been evaluating STEM Ed programs since my first year of graduate school. While I’m not a STEM scholar in the technical sense (and haven’t been since my switch from chemistry to psychology junior year of college), I firmly

Greetings! We are Meg Gambrell, doctoral student in Science Education at Texas Christian University (TCU); Andreas Thompson, Data Analyst at Institute for Biomedical Philosophy (IBP); Molly Weinburgh, Piper Professor & Andrews Chair of Mathematics & Science Education, Department of Teaching and Learning Sciences at TCU; and Melissa K. Demetrikopoulos, Director of Scientific Communications at IBP;

Hi! We are Andrea Hutson and Lindsay Lamb from Agile Analytics in Austin, Texas. For the past four years, we’ve evaluated the High School Research Initiative (HRI), which brings hands-on, inquiry-based science modules into classrooms based on current University of Texas (UT) research. Classroom teachers lead the modules after being trained by UT scientists; these

Hello! My name is Cori Hyde, and I am a PhD research associate at Western Michigan University’s Evaluation Center. In this post, I am going to discuss the integration of Place-Based Education (PBE) in a virtual context for elementary school science curriculums. PBE is not a new concept but has its history in indigenous learning

Welcome all! This is Dr. Ciara C. Knight, a Black Senior Evaluation Officer at Sankofa Consulting, and Rajiv Ramdat, a gay, first-generation American, instructor, and a leadership / academic life coach. We are both STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics) education evaluation experts, both with formal STEM training with advanced degrees, with a deep commitment

AEA365, please allow me to introduce myself. I’m Julius Najab, an evaluator in the Research & Data Analytics department at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). I serve as the internal evaluator for a program that aligns with one of AAAS’s core values: ensuring that everyone is included in the scientific enterprise.