Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Division Curriculum Exchange

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine Schnittka, Auburn University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

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Conference Session

K-12 Outreach and Out-of-School Time Engineering Programming and Research

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tracey Louise Collins, North Carolina State University; Eric N. Wiebe, North Carolina State University; Pam Van Dyk, Evaluation Resources

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

themselves“active” or at least “interested” shared that “they are trying to take advantage of everyopportunity” and that they “enjoy the opportunity to learn about what others are doing”(interview notes).Additional evidence of the immediate value of the project is the actual use of the MISO-basedresources available to partners. Specifically, the initial use of the teacher and student evaluationsurvey instruments (T-STEM survey and S-STEM survey) has proven to be a big help amongthose partners who feel their existing evaluation systems are lacking in appropriate, high qualitydata:We were doing evaluation before, but the worst kind of evaluation. By that I mean, we werecollecting data and not looking at the results. We weren’t always asking the right