By: Scott Burg and Claire Quimby This is a question that our team has been exploring since the COVID-19 pandemic closed museums across the United States in 2020. While the pandemic forced many museums to close their doors, it also provided a stimulus for many museums to explore the use of online or digital programs, […]
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American Evaluation Association’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Working Group: Discussions, practices, and models centered around anti-oppression in the evaluation community
For the past three years, Nisaa Kirtman has served as Co-Chair for the American Evaluation Association DEI Working Group (WG) comprised of 17 members of AEA with expertise in evaluation approaches centered around justice, liberation, and equity. The WG focused on (including, not limited to) “DEI principles,” advocating for a general statement in all organizational […]
How Family Programming Can Help Caregivers and Their Children Talk About and Apply Strategies and Skills That Support Their Everyday Lives and Future Career Success
In Summer-Fall 2023, researchers from Rockman et al Cooperative evaluated a pilot of a multimedia family program being developed by Twin Cities Public Television as part of a five-year U.S. Department of Education Ready-to-Learn grant. The SkillsvilleTM Family Program includes television, digital, and analog activities, with content centered on three curricular pillars: Executive function skills, […]
Escapist Education: Research Findings from VENOMventure, an Educational Escape Game
By: Claire Quimby At Rockman et al Cooperative, one of the wonderful perks of our work is the amazing range of projects we get to work on. When we tell friends, family, and potential hires about what we’re working on, the subject area can be anything from quantum physics to immersive art exhibits, so long […]
AISL Spotlight: Exploring Impacts of an Afterschool Science Club on STEM Graduate Student Mentors
The Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) Program is a National-Science Foundation initiative that funds research on a variety of STEM-based informal experiences and environments. At Rockman et al Cooperative, we’ve conducted research and evaluation of almost 30 AISL projects! Over the next month, we’re highlighting a few of those projects here. Today, we’re spotlighting the […]