Building Informal Science Education: Supporting Evaluation of Exhibitions and Programs with an informalscience.org Research Network

建立非正式的科学教育：通过informalscience.org研究网络支持展览和项目的评估

• 批准号: 1010924
• 负责人: Kevin Crowley
• 金额: $ 136.58万
• 依托单位: University of Pittsburgh
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-08-15 至 2015-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1010924&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Building; Informal; Science; Education; Supporting

The project's goal is to facilitate the growth and use of the web site informalscience.org for posting reports of research and evaluation of Informal Science Education (ISE) funded projects. The investigators intend to make the existing site more useful to ISE professionals. The project leaders will also synthesize the posted evaluation reports of informal science education research and development projects into readable documents. This synthesis will cover all available data from evaluation and research studies reported to informalscience.org across all sectors of ISE (e.g., museums, after school programs, video, radio, film, and technology). The investigators will provide the ISE community with information about these studies through publication on the site, through peer-reviewed publications for a research and evaluation audience, and through communications at conferences focused on ISE policy-makers and ISE practitioners. The site will be connected to the broader set of existing ISE web sites such as insci.org, exhibitfiles.org, and howtosmile.org, as well as future sites that may come on line to serve specific ISE sectors. The web site and report writing will be managed by a small staff of professional researchers and practitioners at the University of Pittsburgh, Minnesota Museum of Science, and Visitors Studies Association. The project will be continually evaluated by a board of advisors that will provide a yearly written report about the web site and synthesis work. The evaluators are researchers familiar with syntheses and meta analysis methods, experts from media, museum, and community programs, and also experts on development and use of professional development web sites. The evaluation will address whether or not the syntheses of evaluation reports was as rigorous as possible given the type of reports that are available. The usefulness of the reports and web site to the field of practice and research will also be a matter for concern by the advisory board. The long term aim of the project is to create a network that promotes deeper connections between evaluation and practice. Also, the network is expected to meet the needs and working styles of the various ISE sectors and to create exchanges and synergies among them. The site is expected to become more usable and useful to the field in each succeeding year, and it is expected to maximize its impact for practitioners, evaluators, policy makers, and funders.

该项目的目标是促进网站informalscience.org的发展和使用，以发布非正式科学教育（伊势）资助项目的研究和评估报告。调查人员打算使现有网站对伊势专业人员更有用。项目负责人还将把张贴的非正式科学教育研究与发展项目的评价报告综合成可读文件。这份综合报告将涵盖向informalscience.org报告的伊势所有部门的评估和研究报告中的所有可用数据（例如，博物馆、课外活动、视频、广播、电影和技术）。研究人员将通过网站上的出版物、针对研究和评估受众的同行评审出版物以及通过在以伊势政策制定者和伊势从业者为重点的会议上的沟通，向伊势社区提供有关这些研究的信息。该网站将连接到更广泛的现有伊势网站，如insci.org，exhibitfiles.org和howtosmile.org，以及未来可能上线服务特定伊势部门的网站。网站和报告的撰写将由匹兹堡大学、明尼苏达科学博物馆和游客研究协会的一小部分专业研究人员和从业人员管理。该项目将由一个顾问委员会不断进行评估，该委员会将提供关于网站和综合工作的年度书面报告。评估人员是熟悉综合和Meta分析方法的研究人员，来自媒体，博物馆和社区项目的专家，以及专业发展网站开发和使用的专家。评价将考虑到现有报告的类型，评价报告的综合是否尽可能严格。咨询委员会还将关注报告和网站对实践和研究领域的用处。 该项目的长期目标是建立一个网络，促进评价与实践之间更深层次的联系。此外，该网络预计将满足各伊势部门的需求和工作方式，并在它们之间建立交流和协同作用。该网站预计将成为更有用的和有用的领域在每一个随后的一年，预计将最大限度地提高其影响的从业人员，评估人员，决策者和资助者。