The Vertically Integrated Science Learning Opportunity (VISLO) program builds upon an existing three-way partnership between (i) faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students form the University Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), (ii) the 21st Century Community Learning Centers (CLC) in Lincoln, NE, and (iii) The University of Nebraska State Museum.
VISLO uniquely incorporates vertically-integrated peer instruction across educational levels, including: graduate, undergraduate, middle school, and elementary school. Throughout the program, participants of all identified educational levels had the exceptional opportuniy to be both students and teachers, thereby increasing both their science learning (as students) and their science identity (as science educators).
The VISLO evaluation, which took place during the 2017 - 2018 and 2018 - 2019 academic years, involved gathering demographic data from two populations: undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in the Communicating Science through Outreach BIOS course and the middle school and elementary school students that participated in the undergraduate led afterschool science clubs. We used a mixed methods analysis that included pre- and post-surveys of the university students and a reptrospective survey for youth each semester. Additionally, we conducted a focus group of the midle school age youth.
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