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resource research K-12 Programs
We present the assets that collaboration across a land grant university brought to the table, and the Winterberry Citizen Science program design elements we have developed to engage our 1080+ volunteer berry citizen scientists ages three through elder across urban and rural, Indigenous and non-Indigenous, and formal and informal learning settings.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Katie Spellman Jasmine Shaw Christine Villano Christa Mulder Elena Sparrow Douglas Cost
resource research K-12 Programs
We used a youth focused wild berry monitoring program that spanned urban and rural Alaska to test this method across diverse age levels and learning settings.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Katie Spellman Douglas Cost Christine Villano
resource evaluation Afterschool Programs
The Arctic Harvest-Public Participation in Scientific Research (which encompasses the Winterberry Citizen Science program), a four-year citizen science project looking at the effect of climate change on berry availability to consumers has made measurable progress advancing our understanding of key performance indicators of highly effective citizen science programs.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Angela Larson Kelly Kealy Makaela Dickerson
resource research Informal/Formal Connections
The present document focuses on the use of and strategies for applied evaluation of distance education programs.
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resource research Informal/Formal Connections
Since distance education has evolved over time and continues to evolve, and most recently been influenced and challenged by the COVID-19 pandemic, it is the position of the authors that the literature is not yet clear or definitive on what it can confidently state about what are tested best practices in distance education, especially when it comes to informal learning environments.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Gary M. Timko Joe E Heimlich Donnelley (Dolly) Hayde
resource research Exhibitions
This guide shares some of the successes and challenges behind the Science Museum of Minnesota’s Cardboard City exhibition and our partnership with museums across the country through Cardboard Collaborative.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Marjorie Bequette Laura Geake Megan Goeke Sarah Lukowski Robby Callahan Schreiber Bette Schmit
resource research Exhibitions
The Cardboard Collaborative is the product of 10 years of work at the Science Museum of Minnesota and part of a larger collaboration with local community organizations to center BIPOC family priorities and experiences. This guide is intended to share what they have learned and support others to create their own cardboard maker worlds.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Marjorie Bequette Laura Geake
resource research Public Programs
This radical volume addresses these circular discourses and reveals the gaps in the field. Putting the spotlight on the marginalised voices of so-called 'racialised minorities', and those from Global South regions, it interrogates the global footprint of the science communication enterprise.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Elizabeth Rasekoala
resource project Conferences
Texas Southern University, in partnership with the Innovation Collaborative, will convene a two-year five-phase working conference project to address these issues. This conference project is housed on an HBCU (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) campus that has a museum studies program and a university museum.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Lillian Poats Lucinda Presley
resource research Exhibitions
This analysis examines how assembly-style making activities support creative expression and early engineering learning. We suggest makerspace designers and educators consider include assembly-style making activities in the mix of options available to support makers who are less comfortable with making initially.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Marjorie Bequette Sarah Lukowski Bette Schmit
resource evaluation Informal/Formal Connections
This report summarizes findings from the learning event and includes the two instruments developed as part of this project:  The STEM Advocacy Survey which is a 36-item measure that includes four subscales that measure components of STEM Advocacy, including Value of STEM for Society, Knowledge of STEM Advocacy, STEM Advocacy Efficacy, and STEM Advocacy Identification; and the STEM Engagement Survey for Older Adults, a ten-item scale adapted for older populations from a previously developed instrument designed for youth (ActivationLab.org) measuring behavioral, cognitive, and affective
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TEAM MEMBERS: Jennifer Mangold Sarah Olsen Cheryl Brewster Matthew Cannady
resource research Museum and Science Center Exhibits
Recent advances in multimodal learning analytics show significant promise for addressing these challenges by combining multi-channel data streams from fully-instrumented exhibit spaces with multimodal machine learning techniques to model patterns in visitor experience data. We describe initial work on the creation of a multimodal learning analytics framework for investigating visitor engagement with a game-based interactive surface exhibit for science museums called Future Worlds.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Jonathan Rowe Wookhee Min Seung Lee Bradford Mott James Lester