ED53D:
Sharing Best Practices and Effective Models for Program Evaluation and Demonstrating the Impact of Your Education and Public Outreach Programs Posters


Session ID#: 8576

Session Description:
This session solicits presentations related to evaluation efforts of education and public outreach (EPO) programs. Continual pressure from funding agencies and other stakeholders has made evaluation a critical piece of all EPO programs. Demonstrating the impact of a program is more than reporting metrics and can include changes in participants’ awareness, knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors. We welcome presentations from evaluators and those who work with evaluators to highlight robust evaluation plans, evaluation tools, partnerships working with evaluators, and examples of successful program evaluations.
Primary Convener:  Sanlyn Buxner, Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States
Conveners:  Hilarie B Davis, Technology for Learning Consortium, Inc., North Kingstown, RI, United States and Stephanie Staples Shipp, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, United States
Chairs:  Sanlyn Buxner, Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States and Hilarie B Davis, Technology for Learning Consortium, Inc., North Kingstown, RI, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Sanlyn Buxner, Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
  • P - Planetary Sciences
  • SH - SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics
Index Terms:

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

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Big Bang! An Evaluation of NASA’s Space School Musical Program for Elementary and Middle School Learners (59165)
Carol Haden1, Mary Styers1 and Shari Asplund2, (1)Magnolia Consulting, Charlottesville, VA, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Planetary Missions Program Office, Pasadena, CA, United States
From Implementation to Outcomes to Impacts: Designing a Comprehensive Program Evaluation (Invited) (79515)
Susan Shebby, McREL International, Denver, CO, United States
Promising Practices in Building Geospatial Academic Pathways and Educator Capacity: Findings from a Multiyear Evaluation Study. (Invited) (59046)
Stephanie Wilkerson and Beth Peery, Magnolia Consulting, Charlottesville, VA, United States
Evaluate the Impact of your Education and Outreach Program Using the Quantitative Collaborative Impact Analysis Method (Invited) (61638)
Daniella Scalice, NASA Astrobiology Program, Mountain View, United States and Hilarie B Davis, Technology for Learning Consortium, Inc., North Kingstown, RI, United States
Designing, Supporting, and Sustaining an Online Community of Practice: NASA EPO Workspace as an Ongoing Exploration of the Value of Community (Invited) (62871)
Bradford Davey, Technology for Learning Consortium, Inc., North Kingstown, RI, United States and Hilarie B Davis, TLC Inc., Stuart, FL, United States
The ENGAGE Workshop: Encouraging Networks between Geoscientists and Geoscience Education Researchers (70059)
Michael Hubenthal, Earthscope Consortium, Washington, United States, Nicole LaDue, Northern Illinois University, Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, DeKalb, IL, United States and J John John Taber, IRIS, Washington, DC, United States
A Small Taste of Big Data: Strategies for Evaluating Reach, Impact, and Outcomes of Starchitect on Facebook (73274)
James B Harold, Space Science Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States

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