All Informal Education resources

NSTA Press Book

Making Sense of Science and Religion: Strategies for the Classroom and Beyond

The authors of Making Sense of Science and Religion believe that addressing interactions between science and religion is part of all science educators...

By Joseph W. Shane, Lee Meadows, Ronald S. Hermann, Ian C. Binns

Postsecondary Elementary High School Informal Education Middle School Biology Evolution General Science Life Science Pedagogy Teaching Strategies Advocacy Inclusion New Science Teachers Policy Professional Learning old Research

Journal Article

Evaluating Nature Museum Field Trip Workshops, an Out-of-School STEM Education Program

Out-of-school learning opportunities for students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) represent an important context in which ...

By Caroline Freitag, and Melissa Siska

Informal Education Administration STEM

Journal Article

Saturday Seminars for Urban Scholars Program

The K–16 academic journey to a career in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) is often described as having serious barriers, s...

By Michele W. McColgan, Robert J. Colesante, Albert G. Andrade, and Kenneth Robin

Middle School Informal Education STEM

Journal Article

Learning Design Experiments

Learning Design Experiments (LDEs), which take their name from design experiments in the learning sciences (Brown 1992), support educational innovat...

By Peter Wardrip, Lisa Brahms, and Annie McNamara

Informal Education

Journal Article

Teaching Environmental Awareness in Baltimore

A national movement, sparked by Richard Louv’s (2005) treatise Last Child in the Woods, has catalyzed collaborations among government agencies, scho...

By Sarah Haines, Chelsea McClure, and Symone Johnson

Middle School Informal Education Citizen Science Environmental Science Teacher Preparation

Journal Article

Formative Assessment of STEM Activities in Afterschool and Summer Programs

The positive impacts of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) afterschool and summer programs have been well documented and summarized i...

By Cary Sneider and Sue Allen

Informal Education Assessment STEM

Journal Article

Team-Based Inquiry

Regardless of the setting in which learning takes place, identifying the goals and intended outcomes of an educational experience, then measuring ho...

By Sarah Cohn

Informal Education Administration Inquiry

Journal Article

Shared Measures for STEM and Science Learning Through the ActApp

Many formal and informal science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) learning programs want to understand the impact their work has on learner...

By Matthew A. Cannady and Kalie Sacco

Informal Education

Journal Article

Planning for Quality

Communities across the United States are working together to increase the quality and quantity of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics ...

By Lydia Peabody, Rebecca K. Browne, Bailey Triggs, Patricia J. Allen, and Gil G. Noam

Informal Education Administration STEM

Journal Article

The Common Instrument Suite

The fundamental ideas in John Dewey’s 1913 essay, Interest and Effort in Education, are as true today as they were when he published it more than ...

By Cary Sneider and Gil G. Noam

Informal Education Administration Teacher Preparation

Journal Article

Practical Program Evaluation

I love data—especially when used to look at learning experiences and figure out what’s working, what isn’t, and what to do next. Not surprisin...

By Beth Murphy

Informal Education Assessment Professional Learning old Research STEM

Journal Article

Better Together

When ExpandED Schools, a nonprofit based in New York, began planning a new STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) initiative three years ...

By Lizzie Murchison and Emma Banay

Informal Education Disabilities