Amy Grack Nelson

Evaluation & Research Manager

Science Museum of Minnesota

Minnesota, United States

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Resources

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2021 Poster - All Are Welcome Here? Understanding Visitors' Sense of Belonging in Science and Natural History Museums

2021 Poster - RAPID: Addressing Families COVID-19 Information and Education Needs Through Podcast Media

A Resource Guide for Talking to Children About COVID-19

Big Back Yard Park Crew Summative Evaluation

Big Back Yard Studies: Summer 2006

BISE Citations to Import into Mendeley

BISE EndNote Library

Brains On Listener Survey

Brains On! Exploratory Research: Impacts of Listening to a Children’s Science Podcast

Brains On! Research: Listener Survey Report

Brains On! Research: Secondary Data Analysis Report

Brains On! the Move: STEM Podcasts as Facilitators of Automobile-Based Family Learning Experiences

Brains On!: Investigating the Impact and Reach of Informal Audio STEM Learning

Brainstorming the Future: Community Based Science Organization Front-end Evaluation Report

Building Evaluation Capacity in a Complex World: Practical Lessons for Organization and Project Leaders

Building Informal Science Education (BISE) NVivo Database

Building Informal Science Education: Supporting Evaluation of Exhibitions and Programs with an informalscience.org Research Network

Children's STEM-Focused Podcasts as Promising Learning Experiences: Research Summary

Children’s Questions, Worries, and Information Needs A Year Into the COVID-19 Pandemic. A study based on listeners of the children’s science podcast Brains On. Executive Summary

Children’s Questions, Worries, and Information Needs A Year Into the COVID-19 Pandemic. A study based on listeners of the children’s science podcast. Full Report.

Children’s questions, worries, and information needs during the COVID-19 pandemic. A study based on listeners of the children's science podcast Brains On!

Children’s questions, worries, and information needs during the COVID-19 pandemic. A study based on listeners of the children's science podcast Brains On! Executive Summary.

Children’s Questions, Worries, and Information Needs Over the Course of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Research Summary

Citizen Science Embedded Assessment

Collaboration in the 21st Century (C2C): Measuring Essential Skills for the STEM Workforce

Collaborative Research: EvalFest (Evaluation Use, Value and Learning through Festivals of Science and Technology)

Developing tomorrow's anglers and aquatic stewards: Formative evaluation of MinnAqua's Leaders' Guide

Developing Tomorrow's Anglers and Aquatic Stewards: Formative Evaluation of MinnAqua's Leaders' Guide for Grades 3-5

Development and Validation of a Survey to Measure Perceived Team Communication Skills in Middle and High School STEM Out-of-School Time Programs

DEVISE: Developing, Validating, and Implementing Situated Evaluation Instruments

Energy Connections: Student Survey Report

Evaluation Under Pressure: Balancing the Needs of the ISE Field with the Needs of Individual Projects

Excel File of BISE Report Level Codes

Exploring the BISE Project's Resources Worksheet

Folder of BISE Reports

Handout - Evaluation Capacity Building: Current initiatives and future directions

How To Use the BISE NVivo Database

IDEA Cooperative: Select Findings From the Design Team Exit Survey

IDEA Cooperative: Select Findings from the Invention Crew Exit Survey

Infectious Disease Exhibition: Examining Guided and Unguided Use of an Exhibition Case

iPAGE - Developing a Model for Broadening Participation in Informal STEM Institutions

KAYSC IDEA Cooperative: Year Two Formative Evaluation

KAYSC Podcast Crew: Evaluation Activities 2009 - 2010

Museums and Inclusion: Understanding Visitors' Sense of Belonging in Science and Natural History Museums

NanoDays Online Workshop: Formative Evaluation

NISE Net Exhibits & Programs Marketing Survey

NISE Network Program Evaluation Tools (package)

NISE Network Regional Workshop: Second Round of Workshops Formative Evaluation

NISE Network Regional Workshops: First Round of Workshops Formative Evaluation

Participatory Evaluation: A Case Study of Involving Stakeholders in the Evaluation Process

Poster: Building the Field of Informal Science Education Through the Synthesis of Evaluation Reports on Informalscience.org

Process Evaluation of the Diversity, Equity, and Access Working Group's Partnership Pilot Project

RAPID: Addressing Families' Covid-19 Information and Education Needs Through Podcast Media

Reporting with an Evaluator Audience in Mind: A BISE Synthesis Paper

Review of NISE Net Evaluation Findings: Years 1-5

Review of NISE Network Evaluation Findings: Years 1-5

Science on a Sphere Interpretive Features: Prototyping Report

Science on a Sphere Lobby Interview Report

Science on a Sphere: Formative Evaluation Report

Science On a Sphere: Front-End Evaluation Report

Shared Measures for Evaluating Common Outcomes of Informal STEM Education Experiences

Summative evaluation of MinnAqua's angling and aquatic education clinics

Summative Evaluation of the Science Museum of Minnesota's Big Back Yard

The Building Informal Science Education Project's Coding Framework

The Role of the Brains On! Podcast in Supporting Children and Their Families During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Research Summary

Touring Theater Program Feasibility Study Report

Vaccine Buzz Summative Evaluation

Water Exhibition Image Testing

What is STEM Engagement?

What is STEM Identity?

What is STEM Interest?

Year Five Site Visits: Formative Evaluation

Youth Teamwork Skills Survey: Manual and Survey

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