You know almost exactly what you want to do to improve the public understanding of science and technology. But you don’t have much of an idea about how to start to evaluate your project, to improve its effectiveness, and then to prove its success. Evaluation 101 to the rescue. This workshop will begin with “Why do an evaluation?” and “What is an evaluation?” and quickly follow with “How would this work with a planetarium show, website, or television show?” We will help participants identify the products or processes in their ISE initiatives. The rationale will include interactive
Questionnaires are used by faculty develpers, administrators, faculty, and students in higher education to assess need, conduct resarch, and evaluate teaching or learning. While used often, questionnaires, may be the most misused method of collecting information, due to htep toential for sampling error and nonsampling error, which includes questionnaire design, sample selection, nonresponse, wording, social desirability, recall, format, order, and context effects. This article ffers methods and strategies to minimize these errors during questionnaire development, discusses the improtance of
Presented at the 2008 ISE PI Summit, this presentation workshop from the Grant Management Office at NSF introduced participants to best practices and strategies for their NSF grant management practices.
Presented at the 2008 ISE PI Summit, this workshop presentation introduced participants to considerations and strategies for evaluating ISE project websites.
Presented at the 2008 ISE PI Summit, this workshop presentation introduced participants to the four basic phases of evalution, an overview of exhibit and program evaluation and research, and other resources for working with a professional evaluator.
Presented at the 2008 ISE PI Summit, this presenation introduces viewers to evaluation in the NSF ISE (now AISL) program and the Online Project Monitoring System (OPMS).
Presented at the 2008 ISE PI Summit, this presentation from Alan Friedman introduces the Framework for Evaluating the Impacts of Informal science Education Projects.
There were 190 projects represented at the ISE PI Summit 2008.
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TEAM MEMBERS:
Center for Advancement of Informal Science EducationAl DeSenaTom KalilBruce LewensteinCatherine McEverSheila GrinellBonnie Sachatello-SawyerRob SemperJulie JohnsonErik PetersonRick BorcheltWendy Wheeler
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There were 251 attendees, of which 176 were representatives of NSF ISE funded projects. In addition to NSF, seven other federal agencies (CPB, DOE, IMLS, NASA, NIH, NOAA, NPS, Smithsonian) that support informal science education were also represented.
DATE:
TEAM MEMBERS:
Center for Advancement of Informal Science EducationAl DeSenaTom KalilBruce LewensteinCatherine McEverSheila GrinellBonnie Sachatello-SawyerRob SemperJulie JohnsonErik PetersonRick BorcheltWendy Wheeler
resourceresearchProfessional Development, Conferences, and Networks