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  • Productive Struggle Webinar 3 - Designing for Productive Struggle
    Date: 08/27/2020
    Resource Category!: Webinar
    As part of an NSF-funded project, Guidelines for Designing Challenging and Rewarding Interactive Science Exhibits (DRL-1612577), the Museum of Science, Boston, CAST, EdTogether, and the University of Rochester held a four-part webinar series on “productive struggle,” a mixed emotional experience during which learners persist through negative ... »
  • Productive Struggle Webinar 4 - Applying and Testing the Framework
    Date: 09/03/2020
    Resource Category!: Webinar
    As part of an NSF-funded project, Guidelines for Designing Challenging and Rewarding Interactive Science Exhibits (DRL-1612577), the Museum of Science, Boston, CAST, EdTogether, and the University of Rochester held a four-part webinar series on “productive struggle,” a mixed emotional experience during which learners persist through negative ... »
  • Project BUILD Summative Evaluation Report
    Date: 06/03/2020
    Resource Category!: Summative
    The Space Science Institute’s (SSI) National Center for Interactive Learning (NCIL), in partnership with the American Society for Civil Engineers (ASCE) and the University of Virginia (UVA), was awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop and implement a 3-year program, Project BUILD (Building Using an Interactive ... »
  • Project TRUE: Knowledge Building Report
    Date: 08/07/2020
    Resource Category!: Report
    This Knowledge Building Report provides an overview of Project TRUE, including program implementation, as well as the research and evaluation results. ... »
  • Purposeful Pursuits: Leveraging the Epistemic Practices of the Arts and Sciences
    Date: 01/01/2020
    Resource Category!: Edited Chapter
    But many young people face signifcant economic, cultural, historical, and/or social obstacles that distance them from STEM as a meaningful or viable option— these range from under-resourced schools, race- and gender-based discrimination, to the dominant cultural norms of STEM professions or the historical uses of STEM to oppress or disadvantage ... »
  • SciGirls Strategies Implementation Evaluation Report
    Date: 05/01/2020
    Resource Category!: Formative
    For the SciGirls Strategies supplemental activity, ten educators were trained to be SciGirls Strategies trainers during June 2019. During that time, they developed action plans for their local teacher training. The goal was for each Trainer to train ten or more teachers in their local schools/districts. Trainers could plan and schedule their ... »
  • Spatial inequalities leave micropolitan areas and Indigenous populations underserved by informal STEM learning institutions
    Date: 10/09/2020
    Resource Category!: Peer-reviewed article
    Informal learning institutions (ILIs) create opportunities to increase public understanding of science and promote increased inclusion of groups underrepresented in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) careers but are not equally distributed across the United States. We explore geographic gaps in the ILI landscape and identify three ... »
  • Storybook STEM Convening Recommendations
    Date: 07/01/2020
    Resource Category!: Conference Proceedings
    In December of 2019, TERC and the University of Notre Dame convened 21 early childhood reading, family learning, and informal STEM education experts to explore the role of children’s fiction books as a tool for supporting STEM learning with young children and their families. Through the discussions, the group developed a series of recommendations ... »
  • Storybook STEM Convening Summary
    Date: 07/01/2020
    Resource Category!: Conference Proceedings
    In December of 2019, TERC and the University of Notre Dame convened a group of 21 early childhood reading, family learning, and informal STEM education experts to explore the role of children’s fiction books as a tool for supporting STEM learning with young children and their families. Participants included educators and researchers from across ... »
  • Summative Evaluation Report on STEM Evaluation Community
    Date: 06/11/2020
    Resource Category!: Summative
    In 2017, the Education Development Center (EDC) received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to bring together PIs of STEM Program Resource Centers (PRC) funded under NSF’s Education and Human Resources (EHR), evaluators of NSF STEM projects and programs, and evaluation advisors to address concerns about the quality and consistency ... »

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