Melissa Ballard

Senior Manager of Public Policy & Advocacy

Association of Science and Technology Centers

District Of Columbia, United States

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Resources

Resource Participation

A connected learning approach to an engineering design challenge

Broadening Perspectives on Broadening Participation in STEM: A Toolkit to Support Science Engagement Professionals

Building Supports Towards a Useful, Usable, and In-Use Framework of Professional Competencies in the Informal STEM Learning Field

Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education (2016-2022)

Childrens’ responses to science across settings

Developing a science identity through life-relevant learning

Developing science agency

Examining pathways to STEM college majors and careers

Examining the Impact of Afterschool STEM Programs

Explicitly teaching technology use improves technology integration

Few state science standards comprehensively address engineering

Girls’ science identity development in and out of school

How science journalism supports science literacy

Inquiry-based learning may not always lead to higher levels of scientific achievement

Linking early science interest and informal science experiences

Mapping U.S. out-of-school time science, technology, and engineering programs

Participation in out-of-school time science and later interest in STEM careers

Partnerships are a key support for afterschool science

Place-based expertise and science knowledge shape civic action

Planetarium professionals teach interactively to achieve their goals

Positive informal science experiences help students persist in STEM majors

Preservice science teachers’ conceptions of students’ prior knowledge

Preservice teachers learn to teach science in summer camp

Professional development supports integrating technology with reform-based science

Professional development to support culturally relevant science teaching

Program design supporting urban youth

Student thinking about socioscientific issues

Teachers spend more time on science in states with accountability requirements

What Are the Cultural Norms of STEM and Why Do They Matter?

What Counts as STEM?

Why do Norwegian youth choose physics?

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