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Awarding Engagement: The impact of scientific societies’ awards recognizing work at the intersections of science and society

Date: 06/29/2022

Resource Category: Report

One of the many ways that scientific societies and associations aim to support and encourage public and civic engagement among their membership is by conferring awards to those who excel in these areas. This report describes research designed to better understand this class of awards (referred to throughout this report as “engagement awards,” ... »
Impacts of a near-peer urban ecology research mentoring program on undergraduate mentors

Date: 04/28/2022

Resource Category: Peer-reviewed article

Environmental educators have used guided-inquiry in natural and supportive learning environments for decades, but comparatively little programming and research has focused on experiences in urban environments, including in constructed ecosystems like green roofs, or impacts on older youth and adults. To address this gap, we designed a tiered, near ... »
An influence among influences: the perceived influence contribution scale development and use

Date: 04/25/2022

Resource Category: Peer-reviewed article

Many youth programs seek to understand their influence over time on participant outcomes. This paper offers a methodology for measuring a participant’s perception of a program’s contribution amid their perception of other youth influences such as those from family, school, peer groups, hobbies, and other organized activities. The instrument built ... »
Playful Materials Catalyze Imaginative Play and Shift the Nature of Engineering Design for Preschool-age Children and Their Families

Date: 04/02/2022

Resource Category: Conference Proceedings

In collaboration with Metropolitan Family Service (MFS), we conducted a three-year design-based research study to better understand how the characteristics of hands-on, home-based family engineering activities influence how preschool-age children and their parents engage in the engineering design process. Four themes emerged from the study: (1) ... »
High school science fair: Ethnicity trends in student participation and experience

Date: 03/28/2022

Resource Category: Peer-reviewed article

In this paper, we report ethnicity trends in student participation and experience in high school science and engineering fair (SEFs). SEF participation showed significant ethnic diversity. For survey students, the approximate distribution was Asian-32%; Black-11%; Hispanic-20%; White-33%; Other-3%. Comparing the SEF level at which students ... »
‘ ... Yet, it is still very White’: structural and cultural impediments to DEAI change in science museums

Date: 03/23/2022

Resource Category: Peer-reviewed article

Diversity, Equity, Access and Inclusion (DEAI) work in museums is multifaceted, but typically approached from the perspective of external audiences and outcomes rather than a change in internal organizational culture. This article discusses findings from a research study examining what happened in five US science museums that were making a ... »
Exploring Trauma Responsive Educational Practices in a Museum

Date: 03/09/2022

Resource Category: Peer-reviewed article

Trauma infiltrates all of society – including museums. For guests, the trauma may lie in the context of the visit or what they bring with them from their everyday lives. Staff can develop trauma through daily interaction with stressful content or secondary trauma through interaction with traumatized guests. During the COVID19 pandemic, trauma also ... »
The Importance of Funding Communities Directly

Date: 03/09/2022

Resource Category: Research Brief

The ICBOs (Independent Community-based Organizations), a group of fifteen community representatives from communities historically excluded from the sciences, share results from eight years of community-led de-colonial participatory action research. We wrote this white paper to share our findings and recommendations with funders like the National ... »
Understanding the Impact of Equitable Collaborations between Science Institutions and Community Based Organizations: Improving Science through Community-Led Research

Date: 03/02/2022

Resource Category: Peer-reviewed article

To advance justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion in science, we must first understand and improve the dominant-culture frameworks that impede progress and, second, we must intentionally create more equitable models. The present authors call ourselves the ICBOs and Allies Workgroup (ICBOs stands for independent community-based organizations), ... »
Cracking the Code: Guide #1 – An Audience Research Collaboration Guide for Media Professionals, Evaluators and Communication Researchers

Date: 02/08/2022

Resource Category: Research Case Study

This is the first of three guides for media practioners, evaluators and researchers about some of what was learned through the project Cracking the Code: Influencing Millennial Science Engagement. This guide focuses on possible practices for creating an audience research collaboration for media professionals, evaluators and communication ... »

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