A Workshop on Assessment and Evaluation Tools for Makerspaces

在全国各地的社区环境和课堂上，制造者教育都有了极大的增长。制造者教育是由学习者驱动和动手的，通常是协作的，可能专注于解决问题或设计物体或设备。人们越来越需要评估和评价工具和方法，以了解和改进制造者学习的性质，并为制造者教学法的价值提供证据。这次研讨会将汇集来自正式和非正式环境的大约25名研究人员以及从业人员，以审查当前的制造商评估和评估工具，并审查这些工具在为研究和实践提供信息方面所起的作用。讲习班将确定今后需要开展工作的领域，包括设计有效满足不同学习者兴趣和需求的评估和评价。研讨会将分发这些评估和评价工具的在线集合、研究简报和几个网络研讨会，分享会议的结果和建议。为期两天的面对面会议将包括研讨会前的调查，以确定和完善供会议审议的问题，为会议与会者确定一套核心读物和资源，并为在会议上提交的研究简报确定关键议题。会议将包括背景介绍、评估工具的实际试用、综合讨论以及确定未来研究方向和下一步行动。研讨会开发的资源将通过研讨会合作伙伴Maker Education的网站、在威斯康星大学举行的年度Maker大会以及通过向非正规和正规教育环境中的研究人员和从业人员提供的其他出版物广泛传播，该项目由推进非正式STEM学习(AISL)方案资助，旨在：(A)促进对非正式环境中STEM学习的设计和开发的新方法和基于证据的理解；(B)为扩大获得和参与STEM学习经验提供多种途径；(C)推进对非正式环境中STEM学习的创新研究和评估；以及(D)让所有年龄段的公众在非正式环境中学习STEM。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Maker education has increased tremendously in community settings and classrooms across the country. Maker education is learner-driven and hands-on, often collaborative, and may focus on solving a problem or designing an object or device. There is a growing need for assessment and evaluation tools and approaches to understand and improve the nature of maker learning and provide evidence for the value of maker pedagogy. This workshop will bring together approximately 25 researchers from formal and informal settings as well as practitioners to review current maker assessment and evaluation tools and examine the role those tools can play for informing research and practice. The workshop will identify areas where future work is needed, including designing assessment and evaluation that effectively addresses the interests and needs of diverse learners. The workshop will disseminate an online collection of these assessment and evaluation tools, a research brief, and several webinars sharing the results and recommendations of the conference.The two-day, in-person conference will include pre-workshop surveys to determine and refine issues for consideration at the conference, identify a core set of readings and resources for conference participants, and to identify key topics for research briefings presented at the conference. The conference will include background briefings, hands-on try-outs of assessment tools, synthesis discussions, and identification of future directions for research and next steps. Resources developed from the workshop will be widely disseminated through workshop partner Maker Education’s website, an annual maker conference held at the University of Wisconsin, and through other publications reaching researchers and practitioners in informal and formal educational settings, This project is funded by the Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program, which seeks to (a) advance new approaches to and evidence-based understanding of the design and development of STEM learning in informal environments; (b) provide multiple pathways for broadening access to and engagement in STEM learning experiences; (c) advance innovative research on and assessment of STEM learning in informal environments; and (d) engage the public of all ages in learning STEM in informal environments.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.