ED31D:
Evaluation Stands for Evidence-Based Claims About Education, Outreach, and Communication I Posters


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Session ID#: 51187

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 and 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 that 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.
Primary Convener:  Hilarie B Davis, Technology for Learning Consortium, Inc., North Kingstown, RI, United States
Conveners:  Sanlyn Buxner, Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, United States and Bradford Davey, Technology for Learning Consortium, Inc., Stuart, United States
Primary Liaison:  Hilarie B Davis, Technology for Learning Consortium, Inc., North Kingstown, RI, United States
Chairs:  Hilarie B Davis, Technology for Learning, Stuart, FL, United States and Bradford Davey, Technology for Learning Consortium, Inc., Stuart, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Hilarie B Davis, Technology for Learning, Stuart, FL, United States
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:

Evaluation of an Authentic, Open-inquiry Research Program for Secondary Students (374255)
Andrew J Shaner1,2, Amanda Smith Hackler1, Christine B Shupla1, Sanlyn Buxner3 and Maya Bakerman3, (1)Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, United States, (2)NASA Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute, Houston, TX, United States, (3)Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, United States
The NASA eClips 4D Program: Impacts after two years of quasi-experimental study on 4D lessons involving student produced videos. (421970)
Bradford Davey1, Sharon Bowers2 and Joan Harper-Neely2, (1)Technology for Learning Consortium, Inc., Stuart, United States, (2)National Institute of Aerospace, Hampton, VA, United States
Analysis of Questions Posed by Graduate Students During an Introductory Research Workshop (423914)
Nicholas A Gross, Boston University, Astronomy, Boston, MA, United States and Susan E Lynds, Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
Measuring Effects Across NASA Space Science Education Consortium Activities Using NSF Impact Categories (443151)
Hilarie B Davis1, Daniella Scalice2, C Alex Young3, Louis Mayo3,4 and Bradford Davey5, (1)Technology for Learning Consortium, Inc., North Kingstown, RI, United States, (2)NASA Astrobiology Program, Mountain View, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Science Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)ADNET Systems Inc. Goddard, Heliophysics, Greenbelt, United States, (5)Technology for Learning Consortium, Inc., Stuart, United States
NASA Avenues for Promoting Interest in Space Science Among Middle School Students (448868)
Gerald Knezek, University of North Texas, Learning Technologies, Denton, TX, United States and Rhonda Christensen, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, United States
What kinds of digital learning experiences do educators want? (456067)
Chris Mead1, Hilarie B Davis2, Jessica L Swann1 and Ariel D Anbar3, (1)Arizona State University, Center for Education Through Exploration, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States, (2)Technology for Learning, Stuart, FL, United States, (3)Arizona State University, School of Earth & Space Exploration and School of Molecular Sciences, Tempe, AZ, United States
Developing a MATLAB based toolkit to evaluate the efficacy of learning progressions within a geoscience curriculum (457849)
R Shane McGary, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, United States
Estimation of Educational Effects on Children Engaged in Nature Games: Text Mining Analysis for Chat Records (352319)
Nana Kadota, Takasaki City University of Economics, Takasaki-Shi, Japan and Akihiro Iijima, Takasaki City University of Economics, Takasaki, Japan

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