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  • Exploring the Link Between STEM Activity Leader Practice and Youth Engagement: Findings from the STEM IE Study
    Date: 12/31/2018
    Resource Category!: Report
    The STEM Interest and Engagement (STEM IE) Study was a four-year project funded by the National Science Foundation under the auspices of its Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program that was designed to better understand what types of practices, supports, and opportunities afforded to early adolescent youth: (1) Are especially effective in ... »
  • Failing to Learn: The impact of failures during making activities
    Date: 12/30/2018
    Resource Category!: Peer-reviewed article
    Making is a recent educational phenomenon that is increasingly occurring in schools and informal learning spaces around the world. In this paper we explore data from maker educators about their experiences with failure. We surveyed maker educators about how they view failure happening with youth in their formal and informal programs and how they ... »
  • My Sky Tonight: Summative Evaluation
    Date: 12/28/2018
    Resource Category!: Summative
    This is the summative evaluation for the My Sky Tonight: Early Childhood Pathways to Astronomy is a National Science Foundation funded Full-Scale Development project that was designed to support informal science education practitioner’s ability to provide astronomy learning for young children ages 3-5 years. Based on prior research and assessment ... »
  • Computational Thinking in Ecosystems Final Evaluation Report
    Date: 12/28/2018
    Resource Category!: Summative
    This report summarizes evaluative findings from Computational Thinking in Ecosystems project, and the resulting product, i.e., a functional draft of a game called “The Pack.” Evaluative efforts included gathering feedback from key stakeholders—including members of the design based research (DBR) team members at the New York Hall of Science (NYSCI ... »
  • Under the Arctic : Digging into Permafrost Summary Evaluation Report
    Date: 12/21/2018
    Resource Category!: Summative
    Under the Arctic: Digging into Permafrost , a 2,000 square foot museum exhibition, engaged visitors in real and simulated experiences related to the nature of permafrost, permafrost research, and the impact of climate change on permafrost. Development of the exhibition was part of a larger National Science Foundation Advancing Informal STEM ... »
  • From Project Mercury to Planet Mars Summative Evaluation
    Date: 12/20/2018
    Resource Category!: Summative
    The Museum of Science, Boston led the From Project Mercury to Planet Mars: Introducing Engineering and Inspiring Youth through Humanity’s Greatest Adventure project (FPMPM) as a way to produce and share high-quality informal engineering education opportunities about the topic of human space travel to Mars. The grant involved the creation of two ... »
  • The PCST 2018 sessions on “Communicating science across cultures”: an overview by the session chairs
    Date: 12/17/2018
    Resource Category!: Peer-reviewed article
    The 15th international conference of the Public Communication of Science and Technology network took place from April 4–6, 2018. Given its location in Dunedin, New Zealand/Ōtepoti, Aotearoa, it was a natural venue for two sessions on communicating science across cultures. ... »
  • Indigenous Australian artists and astrophysicists come together to communicate science and culture via art
    Date: 12/17/2018
    Resource Category!: Peer-reviewed article
    During the International Year of Astronomy in 2009, we initiated a collaboration between astrophysicists in Western Australia working toward building the largest telescope on Earth, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), and Indigenous artists living in the region where the SKA is to be built. We came together to explore deep traditions in Indigenous ... »
  • RAS200 -- engaging citizens with astronomy across cultural divides
    Date: 12/17/2018
    Resource Category!: Peer-reviewed article
    The night skies and the planet on which we live can be inspirational to young and old alike. In the run up to its 200th anniversary in 2020, the U.K.'s Royal Astronomical Society has put together a £1 million scheme to fund outreach and engagement activities for groups that are less well served in terms of access to astronomy and geophysics. This ... »
  • Country-specific factors that compel South African scientists to engage with public audiences
    Date: 12/17/2018
    Resource Category!: Peer-reviewed article
    A study in South Africa shed light on a set of factors, specific to this country, that compel South African scientists towards public engagement. It highlights the importance of history, politics, culture and socio-economic conditions in influencing scientists' willingness to engage with lay audiences. These factors have largely been overlooked in ... »

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