ED33B:
Evaluation Stands for Evidence-Based Claims About Education, Outreach, and Communication II


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Session ID#: 61425

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:

Natural Next Questions: How to Teach and Measure Problem-Solving in the Classroom (380331)
Linda T Elkins-Tanton1, Turner K. Bohlen2, James E Tanton3, Yuan Elle Wang4, Megan Allen3, Carolyn Bickers3 and Calvin Dunwoody3, (1)Arizona State University, School of Earth & Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States, (2)Beagle Learning, Paradise Valley, United States, (3)Beagle Learning, Paradise Valley, AZ, United States, (4)Arizona State University, Action Lab, Tempe, United States
A Framework for Increasing the Value and Impact of Public Engagement Activities (422765)
Heidi A Roop, University of Washington, Climate Impacts Group, Seattle, United States and Rhian Anya Salmon, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Climate literacy on the move: Understanding shifts in student perceptions of the causes, impacts, and solutions to climate change (400033)
Susan J Cheng, Cornell University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Ithaca, NY, United States, J.W. Hammond, University of Michigan, Joint Program in English and Education, Ann Arbor, United States and Meghan A. Duffy, University of Michigan, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Ann Arbor, United States
Using Social Network Analysis to Understand NASA Collaborations (381735)
Heather A Fischer1, Martin Storksdieck1 and Ann M Martin2, (1)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (2)Oak Ridge Associated Universities Inc., Oak Ridge, VA, United States

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