This post talks about the importance and impact of color as a vehicle to convey information.

This post talks about evaluation policy: what it is and why it is important to informal STEM education.

This post talks about investing in evaluation: the importance, how much to spend, and how to decide what to focus your efforts on.

This post talks about four trends we’ll see in ISE in 2023.

This post talks about A.I. and its coming intersection with informal STEM education.

This post offers reflection questions for informal STEM education professionals to assess their organizational impact.

In this article, we’ll explore the Equitable Evaluation Framework™ (EEF) and how it helps to center equity in evaluation practices.

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 science communication and its intersection with informal STEM education and evaluation.

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.

We’re chatting about citizen science and evaluation.

We’re chatting about evaluation approaches for informal STEM learning.

We’re chatting with STEM practitioners around the country to understand how they are engaging with data literacy in their spaces. For this interview, I’m sitting down with Rozina Kanchwala, Founder and Executive Director at Eco.Logic, an education, arts, and community building non-profit that inspires people to take tangible action to address climate change.

We’re chatting about informal STEM learning outcomes.

We’re chatting about informal learning and measurement in STEM.

We’re chatting with STEM practitioners around the country to understand how they are engaging with data literacy in their spaces. For this interview, I’m sitting down with Max Herzog, a Program Manager at the Cleveland Water Alliance (CWA).