Center for Advancement of Informal STEM Education

这个非正式STEM学习资源中心，简称为非正式科学教育促进中心（CAISE），将由来自科技中心协会、匹兹堡大学、华盛顿大学和俄勒冈州州立大学的主要研究人员和工作人员组成的团队领导。其他主要合作者包括美国科学促进会公众参与科学中心、新的国家非正式STEM教育网络和亚利桑那州立大学。CAISE将继续其2007年开始的工作，其中包括为非正式STEM学习的专业观众提供服务，并在该奖项中为科学传播专业人士提供服务。资源中心的目标是通过以下方式推进和更好地整合非正式STEM学习和科学传播的专业领域：（1）扩大这些领域的参与，（2）深化研究与实践之间的联系，（3）建立评估和测量能力。CAISE的主要活动将由外地领导人和新兴领导人组成的跨部门工作队开展，他们将负责进行外地一级的分析，与利益攸关方接触，并为今后的努力制定路线图。CAISE还将通过各种会议和论坛以及通过其设计的网站www.informalscience.org，利用现有的传播渠道向更大的领域传播信息。外部审查委员会和因弗内斯研究中心将监督CAISE的方案活动和对中心的评估。这项工作由推进非正式STEM学习（AISL）计划资助，该计划旨在推进非正式环境中STEM学习的设计和开发的新方法和基于证据的理解。

This Informal STEM Learning Resource Center, referred to as the Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education (CAISE), will be led by a team of principal investigators and staff from the Association of Science-Technology Centers, the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Washington, and Oregon State University. Other key collaborators are the American Association for the Advancement of Science Center for Public Engagement with Science, the new National Informal STEM Education Network, and Arizona State University. CAISE will continue the work it began in 2007, which includes serving professional audiences in informal STEM learning and, in this award, professionals in science communications. The resource center's goals are to advance and better integrate the professional fields of informal STEM learning and science communication by (1) broadening participation in these fields, (2) deepening links between research and practice, and (3) building capacity in evaluation and measurement. CAISE's main activities will be undertaken by cross-sector task forces of field leaders and emerging leaders who will be responsible for conducting field-level analyses, engaging stakeholders, and creating roadmaps for future efforts. CAISE will also build on existing communication channels for dissemination to the larger field, through a variety of convenings and forums and via their designed website, www.informalscience.org. An External Review Board and Inverness Research will provide oversight of CAISE's program activities and evaluation of the center. This work is funded by the Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program, which seeks to advance new approaches to, and evidence-based understanding of, the design and development of STEM learning in informal environments.