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resource project Media and Technology
The Exploratorium will develop "The Electronic Guidebook: Extending Museum Experience Using Networked Handheld Computers." Through this project, the Exploratorium and the Concord Consortium will investigate the use of new technologies to enhance the learning experience of science museum visitors. The exponentially increasing availability of portable personal computing devices provides an opportunity for science museums to develop new ways for visitors to experiment and interact with exhibits. The partners will design and prototype a museum-based "Electronic Guidebook" for visitors. Twenty-five Exploratorium exhibits will be connected to a museum network and handheld portable computers through infrared connections. The target audiences for this project are the general public (adults and families) and children in the K-12 age range. The primary disciplinary focus is physics, with a secondary focus on mathematics.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Robert Semper Robert Tinker
resource evaluation Public Programs
In 2002, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. and the Delta Research and Educational Foundation (DREF), in partnership with the AAAS, under funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), began the Science and Everyday Experiences (SEE) Initiative. SEE helps those involved with African American elementary and middle school age children (K-8) develop effective ways to support the children's informal science learning experiences.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Patricia Campbell Rosa Carson Tom Kibler Delta Research and Educational Foundation
resource evaluation
The Undergraduate Engineering Mentor instruments are used to measure the impact of peer mentoring (or similar peer support activities) on the undergraduate women students who serve as the mentors during peer mentoring.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Pennsylvania State University University of Missouri
resource evaluation
The New Ecological Paradigm Scale-Revised (NEP-R) is an updated version of the 1978 New Ecological Paradigm Survey. This updated version reflects current environmental terminology, as well as tests a single construct. The NEP-R is suitable for use in the general adult population.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Riley E. Dunlap Kent D. Van Liere Angela Mertig Robert Emmet Jones
resource evaluation
The Undergraduate PDQ instruments are designed for undergraduate activities where time limitations or activity importance make rigorous assessment (e.g. using pre and post measures) impractical. PDQ stands for “pretty darn quick”, so named because you can use them for activities that you want to assess but don’t have the desire or time to do so more intensively. Both versions of the undergraduate PDQ instruments gather data on the extent to which respondents participated in the activity, their goals, and feedback from the leaders or participants on their impressions of the activity, their
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TEAM MEMBERS: Pennsylvania State University University of Missouri
resource evaluation
Retention of students in engineering continues to be of concern. To best address this area, we need to know what contributes to both students persisting in engineering and what contributes to their leaving.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Pennsylvania State University University of Missouri
resource evaluation
Retention of students in engineering continues to be of concern. To best address this area, we need to know what contributes to both students persisting in engineering and what contributes to their leaving. The persisting in engineering instrument is designed to measure both male and female student’s reasons for persisting in engineering programs.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Pennsylvania State University University of Missouri
resource evaluation
The Attitudes Toward Mathematics Inventory (ATMI) is a 40 question, 4-factor survey designed to measure high school and college students’ attitudes toward mathematics. Unlike other math assessments, the ATMI was designed to be brief while also capturing multiple factors that contribute to one’s attitude about math.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Martha Tapia George Marsh
resource evaluation
This is part three of the four part "Classroom Activities and Outcomes Survey." The survey asks students to rate the progress they have made in science process skills as a result of completing a particular course or program.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Patrick T. Terenzini Alberto F. Cabrera Carol L. Colbeck John M. Parente Stefani A. Bjorklund
resource evaluation Public Programs
This 31 question instrument evaluates students' attitudes towards the environment including nature, pollution, and living environments.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Laura K. Zimmermann
resource evaluation
LAESE is designed to identify longitudinal changes in the self-efficacy of undergraduate students studying engineering. (see AWE Self-Efficacy Literature Overview and Information on Self-Efficacy). LAESE can be used with any students studying engineering. A High School instrument, based on LAESE, was developed and tested by the Female Recruits Explore Engineering (FREE) Project.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Pennsylvania State University University of Missouri
resource evaluation
"Monitors" students' views concerning the epistemological, social & technological aspects of science.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Glen S. Aikenhead Alan G. Ryan Reg W. Fleming