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STEM TIG Week: Martin, Barnes, Chambers and Pippin on Internal STEM Evaluation from a Stakeholder Perspective at NASA

Leave a Comment / STEM Education and Training / February 10, 2014 March 31, 2014

Hello from NASA Langley Research Center! We represent NASA Innovations in Climate Education (NICE), which provides funding for external institutions to carry out (and evaluate!) climate education projects. We’re Ann Martin (a postdoctoral fellow working on NICE evaluation internally, at the portfolio level), Monica Barnes (NICE project manager), Lin Chambers (project scientist), and Margaret Pippin …

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Climate Ed Eval Week: John Baek on Online Collection of Climate Knowledge Assessment Items

Leave a Comment / Environmental Program Evaluation / December 13, 2013 December 1, 2013

Hi! This is John Baek and I am the Education Evaluator in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Office of Education. NOAA is a member of the tri-agency climate change education collaboration with NASA and NSF. As a part of the tri-agency evaluation community, my colleague Susan Lynds (CIRES) and I identified a need …

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Climate Ed Eval week; Rachel Becker-Klein on Using Embedded Assessment Tools for Evaluating Impact of Climate Change Education Programs on Youths

My name is Rachel Becker-Klein and I am an evaluator and a Community Psychologist with almost a decade of experience evaluating programs focused on STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) education, citizen science, place-based education, and climate change education. I’ve worked with PEER Associates since 2005. PEER Associates is an evaluation firm that provides customized, …

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Climate Ed Eval Week: Nicole Holthuis on Lessons Learned from Measuring Intermediary Outcomes

Leave a Comment / Environmental Program Evaluation, Prek-12 Educational Evaluation, STEM Education and Training / December 9, 2013 December 1, 2013

Hi all. My name is Nicole Holthuis. I’m an independent research/evaluator specializing in science and environmental education. Much has been said about the desired outcomes of climate change education. Evaluators have created and shared various instruments to measure changes in participants’ attitudes, interest, knowledge, behaviors, and skills. But how do we make sense of these …

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Climate Ed Eval Week: Ann Martin on Building a Community of Climate Education Evaluators

Leave a Comment / Environmental Program Evaluation, STEM Education and Training / December 8, 2013 December 1, 2013

Hi there! I’m Ann Martin, a postdoctoral fellow and internal evaluator with NASA Innovations in Climate Education, which funds climate education projects as part of NASA’s Minority University Research and Education Program (MUREP). I’m also part of a cross-agency collaboration involving sister programs at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric …

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