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Results from GRG’s annual evaluation of MIT’s Terrascope Youth Radio (TYR) were recently presented at the American Society for Engineering Education’s annual meeting and at a symposium at Union College. TYR is an NSF-funded project in which college students and urban teens create and host a radio program on environmental and Earth-system science. GRG staffers Karen Gareis and Kate Parkinson are conducting the evaluation. The evaluation focuses on both the undergraduate mentors and the teen interns who together produce radio shows which have been featured around the country. Evaluation data has played an important role in shaping the program’s evolution and in helping to define the outcomes of the program.
Read more about our evaluation here.
Our long-time client, SAE International, recently released the results of GRG’s 5 year longitudinal study of A World in Motion® (AWIM). The study examined the long term impact of AWIM on students and teachers. Some highlights from the research included: younger students sought out more science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) related activities over time, use of AWIM increased teachers’ confidence in teaching science, and the involvement of an industry volunteer during AWIM activities led to strong student knowledge of engineering that was sustained over time. Director of SAE Foundation, Matthew Miller, stated SAE is “extremely pleased with the results of the study.”
Read the full press release here!
Our client, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, submitted a paper about GRG’s evaluation of their Black Holes exhibit to the Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference. The accepted paper and presentation is titled "Do Learning Outcomes Escape from ‘Black Holes’? Summative evaluation data from the Smithsonian’s national traveling exhibition.” This conference will be held Aug 2-4 at Boulder, CO.
Read more about our evaluation and also about the Black Holes exhibit.
Colleen F. Manning, Director of Research, is co-author of an article about the Kenneth B. Schwartz Center Rounds in the June 2010 issue of Academic Medicine. GRG conducted the summative evaluation of this program, which involves a psychosocial-topic-based assembly of caregivers in hospitals around the U.S. The Rounds at each site are administered by a clinical leader, a multidisciplinary planning group, an outside facilitator, and a support staff. The two-pronged evaluation approach included a substantive quantitative online survey component, supplemented by qualitative interview data.
Read the full article in Academic Medicine here.
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