ED43A:
Sharing Best Practices and Effective Models for Program Evaluation and Demonstrating the Impact of Your Education and Public Outreach Programs Il

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Session ID#: 35417

Session Description:
This session welcomes presentations related to evaluation and assessment efforts of education and public outreach (EPO) and communication programs. The desire to improve outcomes and impacts, along with continual pressure from funding agencies and other stakeholders has made evaluation a critical piece of all EPO programs and is becoming increasingly important to commmunication efforts as well. 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, lessons learned, 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 Jake Noel-Storr, InsightSTEM, Tucson, AZ, UNITED STATES
Chairs:  Sanlyn Buxner, Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States, Hilarie B Davis, TLC Inc., Stuart, FL, United States, Jake Noel-Storr, InsightSTEM, Tucson, AZ, UNITED STATES and Christine B Shupla, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Hilarie B Davis, TLC Inc., Stuart, FL, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • P - Planetary Sciences
  • PA - Public Affairs
  • SH - SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
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:

Increasing the use of evaluation data collection in an EPO program (276368)
J John John Taber1, Wendy Bohon2, Tammy K Bravo3, Mladen Dordevic4, Perle M Dorr1, Michael Hubenthal3, Jenda A Johnson5, Danielle F Sumy6, Russ Welti1 and Hilarie B Davis7, (1)Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, Seattle, WA, United States, (2)Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, Washington, DC, United States, (3)Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, Seattle, United States, (4)Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, Washington, United States, (5)Earth Sciences Animated, Portland, OR, United States, (6)National Science Foundation, Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships, Alexandria, United States, (7)TLC Inc., Stuart, FL, United States
Education Model Program on Water-Energy Research: A New STEM Graduate Program from Development through Evaluation (240887)
Deanna McCay, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, United States, Patrick Fiorenza, Hezel Associates, Syracuse, NY, United States and Laura Lautz, Syracuse University, Syracuse, United States
Tracking How Science Resources Result in Educator- and Community-Level Outcomes (289306)
James B Harold, Space Science Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Paul Dusenbery, Space Science Institute Boulder, National Center for Interactive Learning, Boulder, CO, United States, Ginger Fitzhugh, Education Development Center, Waltham, MA, United States, Keliann LaConte, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, United States and Anne Holland, Space Science Institute Boulder, Education and Learning Research, Boulder, CO, United States
UNAVCO’s Education and Community Engagement Program: Evaluating Five years of Geoscience Education and Community Outreach (291849)
Donna J Charlevoix, UNAVCO, Inc. Boulder, Education and Community Engagement, Boulder, CO, United States and Erik Dutilly, Boulder, CO, United States
A stepwise approach for introducing numerical modeling in Environmental Engineering MSc unit: The impact of clear assessment criteria and detailed feedback  (214012)
Rafael Rosolem, University of Bristol, Civil Engineering, Bristol, United Kingdom and Jane Pritchard, University of Bristol, Academic Staff Development, Bristol, United Kingdom
A program wide framework for evaluating data driven teaching and learning - earth analytics approaches, results and lessons learned (273406)
Leah A Wasser, University of Colorado at Boulder, Earth Lab Earth Analytics Education Initiative - CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States; University of Colorado at Boulder, Earth Lab / CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States and Anne U Gold, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), Boulder, United States
Interdisciplinary research and education in the Vienna Doctoral Programme on Water Resource Systems: a framework for evaluation (270518)
Gemma Carr, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria, Daniel P Loucks, Cornell Univ, Ithaca, NY, United States and Guenter Bloeschl, Institute of Hydraulic Engineering, Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), Vienna, Austria

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