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- Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, Lansdowne, VA
GRG is conducting a five-year longitudinal study of outcomes for students who received a grant from the Jack Kent Cooke Undergraduate Transfer (JKC-UT) program or were highly competitive nominees for the grant. The Jack Kent Cooke Undergraduate Transfer program annually awards grants designed to help high-achieving students transfer from community colleges to selective four-year schools. The study will examine the outcomes for students who received the grant as well as those who did not by tracing their paths and achievements in order to identify the factors that facilitate or hinder their academic and professional success.
GRG is conducting a national summative evaluation for KCET of their new children’s science program, Sid the Science Kid. The daily series and associated national outreach aim to engage children ages 3 to 6 years old and their caregivers. For children, goals include supporting and extending their natural science-related curiosity by increasing science process skills they can use to seek answers as they explore the world around them. For caregivers, goals include increased interest, comfort, and confidence to support their children’s curiosity. Primary goals of GRG’s evaluation include: 1) Examine the effectiveness of the series and website through a viewer study to compare the science-related interests, attitudes, and activities among those who are or not exposed the series and website, and 2) Assess implementation and effectiveness of the community outreach including reach, use, and satisfaction with the outreach trainings and materials.
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GRG is conducting an evaluation of HD Live in Schools, the Metropolitan Opera’s initiative to bring the Met’s live HD performances to high school students in 18 cities. GRG’s evaluation activities include an online survey for all teachers in the 18 cities who have been trained and are using the curriculum materials, and surveys with a sample of students at six of the sites after their attendance at each of the two operas and their participation in the follow-up activities.
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GRG is in the second year of a three-year process and outcome evaluation of Terrascope Youth Radio, an NSF-funded project in which urban teens develop, report, write, produce, and host a regularly broadcast radio program on environmental and Earth-system science. Participating teens will report on science topics that are engaging and relevant to their lives at the same time as they learn radio production skills. In addition to providing interactive learning experiences for local teens, the initiative aims to serve as an impetus to increase coverage of environmental science, and other STEM topics, in youth radio programming nationally. Finally, the program proposes to establish a model for university researchers and students to engage and work with youth in their communities.
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GRG is currently working with the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA) to evaluate their School Portfolio Network program, a partnership whereby authorizing agencies partner with NACSA to receive comprehensive and sustained support for up to three years, in an effort to improve authoring practices. The first step in this process is a comprehensive analysis of current policies and practices, including an internal audit and a survey of stakeholders that is being conducted by GRG. The data gathered through this survey are used in conjunction with other data gathered by the NACSA team to determine the authorizing practices that will be addressed as part of the partnership. A similar survey will also be used at the end of the partnership to determine whether stakeholders have noticed changes in key areas.
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GRG is in the fourth year of a five-year evaluation of the Engineering Equity Extension Services (EEES), a new comprehensive research-based consultative and peer mentoring infrastructure that will support enhanced gender equity in engineering education in the U.S. The evaluation will include both formative and summative components.
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Formative and summative evaluation of the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) program in Indiana is in its second year of a five-year grant. The LSAMP Indiana program was established in 2003, uniting Purdue West Lafayette, Purdue Calumet, IUPUI, Ball State, and Indiana University Bloomington in their goals to increase the number of underrepresented minority students earning baccalaureate degrees in STEM. Funded by the National Science Foundation, the program recently entered Phase II of its implementation. The current Phase II goal is to triple the number of baccalaureate degrees earned by program participants within the next five years. GRG’s evaluation will gather process and feedback data to demonstrate the successes of the program.
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GRG is conducting an evaluation of RESOLVE educational modules on embryo donation for potential embryo donors and those interested in embryo adoption. In this project, RESOLVE seeks to increase awareness of embryo donation as well as to increase knowledge about the medical, legal, mental health, and practical aspects of embryo donation. RESOLVE will develop educational modules to be presented through conference-based presentations, a Webinar and an on-line interactive tool. GRG will evaluate whether the educational modules are successful in increasing awareness and knowledge of embryo donation. Data collection methods will incorporate both qualitative and quantitative data and will include: pre- and post- surveys and focus groups with those who attend the conference presentations; pre- and post- surveys and follow-up interviews with those who participate in the Webinar; pre- and post- surveys with those who use the on-line interactive tool. Evaluation activities will include measures pertaining to project process and outcomes, including participant satisfaction and the project’s effectiveness at increasing public awareness of embryo donation. RESOLVE will use data from the evaluation of conference presentations as a basis for adjustments and revisions to the educational modules as well as development of subsequent materials.
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GRG is in its fifth and final year of a longitudinal outcome evaluation (2004-09) for SAE International of A World In Motion (AWIM). With over 18 years of distribution to elementary and middle school (and now high school) teachers, the interdisciplinary curriculum supplemental materials are designed to promote science, engineering, and mathematics literacy among students by engaging them in challenging engineering and design activities.
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GRG recently completed a large-scale evaluation of the Schwartz Center Rounds, a psychosocial-topic-based assembly of caregivers in over 75 hospitals around the U.S. The monthly Rounds at each site are staffed by a physician leader, a multidisciplinary planning group, an outside facilitator, and a support staff. The two-pronged evaluation approach includes a substantive quantitative component and qualitative case studies. GRG is currently completing a formative process evaluation of a new Schwartz initiative: The Patient Voice for Compassionate Care, “The Schwartz Center Dialogues.”
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GRG is conducting formative evaluation of "Music Instinct" - an NSF-funded 2 hour PBS television program that aims to convey the strong evidence of the connections between music and science, as well as a deeper understanding of these two fields. The overall project consists of the PBS program, a website, and ancillary educational materials. Having completed formative evaluation of the PBS program, we are currently carrying out formative research on the outreach component.
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A Systems Response to Improving Education on Aging in California, a gerontology core curricula, is being developed by UCLA for gerontology, social work, and nursing programs in both two- and four-year colleges. This U.S. DOE FIPSE-funded project aims to address the need to prepare a skilled and representative workforce to provide quality services and care to older Californians. GRG is in the third and final year of evaluation. Many aspects of the project are being evaluated, including the management structure developed for the project, the Manual of Procedures, and the faculty development program.
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Both formative and summative evaluation of an NSF ITEST project (Information Technology – Engineering and Environmental Education Tools -- IT-E3) that features the use of environmental sensors, and includes: 1) a teacher training program with ongoing support; 2) a curriculum that will be developed by teacher participants; and 3) an online interactive game that will support the curriculum. Formative evaluation will gather feedback to improve the professional development, curriculum, and online game. Summative data will help determine the influence the program is having on teachers and students, including student interest in and knowledge of STEM.
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The BioBridge professional development model, developed by educators and scientists at the University of California, San Diego, consists of a four-phase training model for high school science teachers. The four-phase model was developed over three years by using an iterative process. In 2008 the BioBridge team and GRG were awarded a research grant form the United States Department of Education to conduct a study of the BioBridge model. The purpose of the study is to gather data that can be used to systematize and strengthen the existing BioBridge training. Evaluation activities include surveys, observations, and a secondary analysis of student test scores. The final deliverable for the project is an Implementation Manual that can be used to replicate the BioBridge model and GRG’s evaluation in other sites.
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Process and summative evaluation of iCODE, an NSF ITEST-funded project that will use intensive, hands-on IT activities in a collaborative on-line environment. The primary aim of iCODE is to increase the likelihood that participating middle and high school students from racially diverse and economically disadvantaged communities in Boston and Lowell will pursue IT and STEM careers. The summative evaluation will assess the influence of the program on participating students' IT attitudes, career aspirations, and skills.
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Summative evaluation of the Seasons of Change project. GRG’s role includes working with the clients to develop an exhibit template that can be adapted to other regions of the country by substituting harbingers of change that are iconic for regional landscapes and seasons. GRG will also evaluate the primary goal of the program: to advance the field of informal science education by developing an innovative traveling exhibit that makes climate change research, data, findings, and theories intriguing and intellectually accessible to general audiences, and by framing it in a local and personally relevant context.
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GRG is conducting consultation and evaluation activities for several evaluation projects run by the Westside Children’s Center (WCC) in Los Angeles, CA. Current activities include analysis of Desired Results for Children and Families (DRDP) parent surveys about satisfaction with the child care and development program their children attend, and analysis of surveys completed by prospective adoptive and foster families after their participation in each of a series of (MAPP) courses hosted by WCC staff.
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Summative evaluation of Reading Rockets, a national multimedia project that disseminates resources and information focused on helping children learn to read. The resources include four Web sites, national outreach, a documentary film (“A Tale of Two Schools”), and a new program called First Year Teacher.
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Since 1992, GRG has conducted numerous evaluations of public TV programs, web sites, educational print materials, and outreach initiatives developed by WGBH. Currently, GRG is evaluating the NOVA series, NOVA scienceNOW, and the children’s series, FETCH. Following is a partial list of current and past projects that GRG evaluated for various WGBH departments (e.g., Educational Print and Outreach, Children’s Programming): Africans in America, Arthur, Between the Lions, Building Big, Design Squad, Einstein’s Big Idea, Fetch, Lives in Science, NOVA ScienceNOW, Oliver Twist, Peep and the Big Wide World, Saved by the Sun, and ZOOM.
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