Space Earth and Informal Science Education Project Summative Evaluation (2021, 2024)

TYPE: Summative Evaluation
AUDIENCE: Informal Science Educators
TOPIC: Earth and Space Science
Summative evaluation reports and executive summary for the Space Earth and Informal Science Education (SEISE) project including: professional impacts, Sun, Earth, Universe exhibition public reach and impacts, and the Explore Science: Earth & Space toolkits public reach and impacts.
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Evaluations were focused on understanding the overall impacts of the Space Earth and Informal Science Education (SEISE) project on professionals’ Earth and space work, as well as the impacts of SEISE products on the public’s interest, engagement, relevance, and understanding of SMD content areas (Earth science, heliophysics, planetary science, astrophysics). 

Summative evaluation reports documents:

  • Executive Summary:
    • Summative Evaluations Executive Summary (summarizing both public and professional impacts) (March 2024)
  • Professional Impacts:
    • Space and Earth Informal STEM Education (SEISE) Professional Learning Community Summative Evaluation (March 2024) by Allison Anderson, Ann Atwood, Sonya Harvey-Justiniano, and Elizabeth Kunz Kollmann
    • Space and Earth Informal STEM Education (SEISE) Project Professional Impacts Summative Evaluation (March 2021) by Marta Beyer, Allison Anderson, and Elizabeth Kunz Kollmann
  • Public Impacts:
    • Summative Evaluation of the Mission Future: Arizona 2045 exhibition (February 2024) by Allison Anderson, Sonya Harvey-Justiniano and Elizabeth Kunz Kollmann
    • Summative Study of Explore Science: Earth & Space Activity Toolkits (January 2019) by Zdanna King, Hever Velázquez, and Sarah Robertson
    • Summative Evaluation of the Sun, Earth, Universe Exhibition (October 2020) by Zdanna King, Hever Velázquez, and Sarah Robertson

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  • SEISE Project Evaluation Executive Summary Full revised March 2024 page 1
  • SEISE Project Evaluation Executive Summary Full revised March 2024 page 3
  • SEISE Project Evaluation Executive Summary Full revised March 2024 page 4
  • SEISE Project Evaluation Executive Summary Full revised March 2024 page 6
  • Summary of SEISE project public and professional impacts showing numbers of people involved and a map of the United States with organizations who received project kits
  • SEISE Project Evaluation Executive Summary Full revised March 2024 page 1
  • SEISE Project Evaluation Executive Summary Full revised March 2024 page 3
  • SEISE Project Evaluation Executive Summary Full revised March 2024 page 4
  • SEISE Project Evaluation Executive Summary Full revised March 2024 page 6
  • Summary of SEISE project public and professional impacts showing numbers of people involved and a map of the United States with organizations who received project kits

DESCRIPTION

Evaluations were focused on understanding the overall impacts of the Space Earth and Informal Science Education (SEISE) project on professionals’ Earth and space work, as well as the impacts of SEISE products on the public’s interest, engagement, relevance, and understanding of SMD content areas (Earth science, heliophysics, planetary science, astrophysics). 

Summative evaluation reports documents:

  • Executive Summary:
    • Summative Evaluations Executive Summary (summarizing both public and professional impacts) (March 2024)
  • Professional Impacts:
    • Space and Earth Informal STEM Education (SEISE) Professional Learning Community Summative Evaluation (March 2024) by Allison Anderson, Ann Atwood, Sonya Harvey-Justiniano, and Elizabeth Kunz Kollmann
    • Space and Earth Informal STEM Education (SEISE) Project Professional Impacts Summative Evaluation (March 2021) by Marta Beyer, Allison Anderson, and Elizabeth Kunz Kollmann
  • Public Impacts:
    • Summative Evaluation of the Mission Future: Arizona 2045 exhibition (February 2024) by Allison Anderson, Sonya Harvey-Justiniano and Elizabeth Kunz Kollmann
    • Summative Study of Explore Science: Earth & Space Activity Toolkits (January 2019) by Zdanna King, Hever Velázquez, and Sarah Robertson
    • Summative Evaluation of the Sun, Earth, Universe Exhibition (October 2020) by Zdanna King, Hever Velázquez, and Sarah Robertson

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TYPE:
Evaluation and Research
AUDIENCE:
Informal Science Educators
LANGUAGES:
English
ADDITIONAL TOPICS: Earth and Space Science
KIT: Explore Science: Earth & space logo Browse kit
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Credits

YEAR CREATED
2021, revised 2024
PROJECT
OWNING INSTITUTION

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Museum of Science, Boston

Science Museum of Minnesota

FUNDING

This material is based upon work supported by NASA under cooperative agreement award number NNX16AC67A and 80NSSC18M0061. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

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