ED027
Evaluation of Education, Outreach, and Communication: Learning from our Work and telling the Story of Learning

Session ID#: 79881

Session Description:
Session Description: Evaluation, like science, stands for evidence-based claims through thoughtfully designed rigorous studies of what works and how it works. This session invites presentations related to evaluation of education, public outreach, and communication programs. We welcome presentations from evaluators and their projects to share their designs, models, data collection methods, measures, and results. Sharing the systematic, scientific approaches to evaluating the effectiveness of education efforts is crucial to improving our practice and re-assuring funders and the public of the merit of our work. We welcome presentations that are exploring innovative approaches to collecting data in informal environments, teasing out effects in complex interventions, ways of involving stakeholders in design and data collection, and methods of communicating results.
Index Terms:

0805 Elementary and secondary education [EDUCATION]
0810 Post-secondary education [EDUCATION]
0815 Informal education [EDUCATION]
0840 Evaluation and assessment [EDUCATION]

Primary Convener:  Hilarie B Davis, Technology for Learning, Stuart, FL, United States and Sanlyn buxner
Convener:  Sanlyn Buxner, Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ, United States and Sanlyn buxner
Primary Liaison:  Hilarie B Davis, Technology for Learning, Stuart, FL, United States and Sanlyn buxner
 
Evaluating the volunteer and scientific outcomes of citizen science programs (Invited) (491678)
Heather A Fischer and Martin Storksdieck, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
 
NASA eClips 4D Program: Four Years of Formative and Summative Evaluation to Test and Understand the Impacts on Student Science Literacy (497440)
Bradford Davey, Technology for Learning Consortium, Inc., North Kingstown, RI, United States and Sharon Bowers, National Institute of Aerospace, Hampton, VA, United States
 
Out of This World: Evaluation of a Remote Sensing Curriculum for Out-of-School Time Learners (503169)
Carol Haden, Magnolia Consulting, Charlottesville, VA, United States and Joelle Clark, Northern Arizona University, Center for Science Teaching and Learning, Flagstaff, AZ, United States
 
Evolution and Insights from a 4-year NSF Research Experience for Teachers (RET) Program: Professional Development in Water-Energy Education for the Next Generation (WE2NG) (507703)
Terri S Hogue1, Ashley Rust2, Katie Estridge Schneider2 and Amy C Martin2, (1)Colorado School of Mines, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Golden, CO, United States, (2)Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States
 
Earthquake Disaster Education Based on Legitimate Peripheral Participation Theory (515382)
Takuya Iwahori, Keio University, Fujisawa, Japan and Katsuya Yamori, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
 
Insights Emerging from Evaluation of the InTeGrate Project: A Collaborative Effort to Improve Undergraduate Geoscience Education Nationwide (515985)
Kim A Kastens, Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States and Cathryn Allen Manduca, Carleton College, SERC, Northfield, MN, United States
 
A Case Study in Geoscience Education Research Project Evaluation: The Distinct Role of Project Evaluation in Discipline-Based Education Research (DBER) (520226)
Laura Lukes, George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States
 
Benefits of International Collaboration for Professional and Scholar-Network Development: A 4-year Evaluation of NSF PIRE: E-FIRE (523240)
Rose Baker, University of North Texas, Learning Technologies, Denton, TX, United States, Matthew J Kohn, Boise State University, Boise, ID, United States, Sarah Penniston-Dorland, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States and Maureen D Feineman, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Geosciences, University Park, PA, United States
 
Assessing the impact of a challenge-based, Collectivist approach to learning on minority student engagement in the Geosciences (528603)
Alissa Jeanne Kotowski, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, Vanshan Desmond Wright, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, United States, Nick Soltis, Auburn University at Montgomery, Montgomery, AL, United States, Evan Joseph Ramos, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences, Austin, TX, United States and Dana Thomas, Stanford University, Geological Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States
 
What spatial skills do geologists need to do their work? (537648)
Kathryn Bateman, Temple University, Department of Psychology, Philadelphia, United States, Thomas F. Shipley, Temple University, Psychology, Philadelphia, PA, United States and Alexandra E Davatzes, Temple University, Earth and Environmental Science, Philadelphia, PA, United States
 
A Model for Measuring Effects Across NASA Space Science Education Consortium Activities Using NSF Impact Categories (555002)
Hilarie B Davis, Technology for Learning Consortium, Inc., North Kingstown, RI, United States, C Alex Young, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Science Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Louis Mayo, ADNET Systems Inc. Goddard, Heliophysics, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Carolyn Ng, NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Digital vs. Traditional Learning: Mitigating Marshes Against Sea Level Rise (565457)
Stephanie Letourneau, Juniata College, Environmental Science and Studies, Huntingdon, PA, United States
 
Lessons Learned and Outcomes from 10 Years of Evaluating International Observe the Moon Night (571615)
Sanlyn Buxner1, Maya Bakerman1, Emily Joseph2, Pamela Gay3, Andrea P Jones4,5, Molly L Wasser6, Staci Tiedeken5,6, Nicole Whelley5, Vivian White7, Andrew J Shaner8, Julie Fooshee9 and Brian Hamilton Day10, (1)Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States, (3)Planetary Science Institute, Edwardsville, IL, United States, (4)Goddard Flight Research Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)ADNET Systems, Inc., Bethesda, MD, United States, (7)Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, CA, United States, (8)Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, United States, (9)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States, (10)NASA Ames Research Center, Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute, Moffett Field, CA, United States
 
GLOBE-Mission Earth: Evaluation of the Third Year''s Implementation. (588725)
Nektaria Eleni Adaktylou, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States and Hedley, M. L.c, Darche, S.d, Harris -Stefanakis, E.e, Boxerman, J.,d, Ostrom, Td., Struble, J.c Young, C., f and Czajkowski, K.c
 
NASA’s Airborne Astronomy Ambassadors Program: Evaluation of Student Outcomes (599020)
Dana Edward Backman1, Coral Clark2 and Pamela K Harman2, (1)SETI Institute Mountain View, Mountain View, CA, United States, (2)SETI Institute Mountain View, Education, Mountain View, CA, United States
 
Evaluation Methods Employed in the Development of a Middle School Instructional Unit about Weather (614354)
Becca Hatheway1, John Daniel Ristvey Jr2, Lisa S Gardiner3, Melissa Rummel4, Emily Snode-Brenneman5, Julie S Malmberg6, Renee Curry7, Lin H Chambers8 and Tony Murphy6, (1)University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)UCAR Community Programs, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)UCAR, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)UCAR, Center for Science Education, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)UCAR, Center for Science Education, Boulder, United States, (6)The GLOBE Program/UCAR, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (8)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States
 
Increasing student engagement by incorporating authentic climate science research in the classroom (618589)
Ariel Morrison, University of Colorado Boulder, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, Anne U Gold, CIRES/CU Boulder-Rsrch Lab 2, Boulder, CO, United States and Jennifer E Kay, Univeristy of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
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