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6 Evaluation of Education and Evaluation in Practice within NASA SMD
6 Evaluation of Education and Evaluation in Practice within NASA SMD
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and the Institute of Education Sciences of the Department of Education are an attempt to demystify scientific processes as they are applied to educational research and evaluation.1 The Guidelines are a cross-agency framework that describes broad types of research and development (R&D) and "the expected purposes, justifications, and contributions of various types of agency-supported research to knowledge generation about interventions and strategies for improving learning." Orland said the Guidelines are necessary because the American education system needs research to produce stronger evidence at a faster pace.
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You are both doing this exploratory research, and you are learning as you are going, so that you are refining and improving." Part 2 -- Evaluation in Practice within NASA SMD Moderator Theresa Schwerin, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies Speaker Hilarie Davis, TLC, Inc. Panelists Bonnie Eisenhamer, Space Telescope Science Institute Jenny Gutbezahl, Brandeis University Frances Lawrenz, University of Minnesota Using Evaluation to Increase and Measure the Impact of Education Hilarie Davis, TLC, Inc.
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These included the following: • Embed evaluation in the whole project cycle -- provide feedback and support for this; • Give the evaluation credibility by involving the stakeholders appropriately; • Build the evaluation around questions that are important; • Use reasonable, practical approaches to collect data; • Be clear about the purpose of the evaluation; and • Use the results of the evaluation to guide decision-making about program elements, goals, and funding. An example was given of a valuable evaluation that was done for seventh and eighth graders using results FIGURE 6.1 An example of data produced by NASA's Global Precipitation Mission (GPM)
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Davis concluded by stating that "through evaluation we are able to collect evidence and develop explanatory models of how to bring back the wonder for teachers and students to know, care about, and pursue NASA and STEM learning." Panel Discussion Hilarie Davis and Theresa Schwerin joined Bonnie Eisenhamer, Jenny Gutbezahl, and Frances Lawrenz for the panel discussion. The organizing committee developed the following guiding questions to provide focus to the panel discussion: • Why and how does NASA evaluate the programs it executes?
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Gutbezahl was involved in the 1997-2000 NASA Space Science Education and Public Outreach effort and is seeing now many of the same challenges she observed more than 15 years ago. These include a culture clash between scientists and educators, a lack of coordination across the system leading to gaps and redundancies, and challenges between going for depth versus breadth.
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