Dr. Sarah Dunifon outlines funders who support informal STEM education efforts in the United States.

Improved Insights introduces Dr. Sarah Dunifon’s dissertation, An Examination of Evaluation Policies and Funding Priorities in Informal STEM Education

This feature, we pass the mic to Holly Miller, PhD who discusses how out-of-school time as a remedy to dropping scores in math and science.

This post (part two of two) talks about all the different considerations that go into effective survey or questionnaire design.

This post (part one of two) talks about all the different considerations that go into effective survey or questionnaire design.

In this article, we’ll explore who deficit thinking impacts the most, how deficit thinking plays out in formal and informal education, and how we - as educators and evaluators - can avoid it in order to impart greater equity and justice in our work.

This blog post does a deep dive into the concept of 21st century skills, including what this concept is, how it might be incorporated into your program outcomes, and how evaluators think about assessing it.

This blog post does a deep dive into the concept of STEM engagement, including what this concept is, how it might be incorporated into your program outcomes, and how evaluators think about assessing it.

This blog post discusses the learning loss phenomenon and proposes informal learning as a way to build up students’ STEM interests and abilities.

This blog post does a deep dive into the concept of STEM identity, including what this concept is, how it might be incorporated into your program outcomes, and how evaluators think about assessing it.

New publication in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution: Impacts of a Near-Peer Urban Ecology Research Mentoring Program on Undergraduate Mentors.