By Kristin Bass Ah, fall! It’s time for apples and cider, bonfires and hayrides, and in San Francisco, a welcome break from summer fog. For many of us at Rockman et al, it’s also the season for National Science Foundation proposals. Deadlines for the Advancing Informal Science Learning (AISL) and Discovery Research PreK-12 (DRK-12) are […]
Impact of Speak Agent in the classroom on ESL students’ language development
By Julia Li, Ph.D. Rockman et al (REA) recently served as the external evaluator on the NSF-sponsored project “A Massive Open Online Platform for Language Learning Content” (No. 1632488), aimed at studying the impact of Speak Agent, an academic language acquisition tool, on science language development for elementary students with variable English language proficiency. This […]
Meet REA at Visitor Studies Association Annual Meeting
Jennifer Borland, Scott Burg, Claire Quimby, Saul Rockman, and Camellia Sanford-Dolly will be at the Visitor Studies Association’s Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL from July 19 to 21. If you are planning to attend, don’t hesitate to reach out! Scott will be presenting in a session titled “Evaluation of Design Thinking in Museum Settings” on […]
Examining Multidisciplinary Research at the Intersection of Human and Machine Learning
by Alex Gurn and Camellia Sanford-Dolly Rockman et al (REA) recently completed an external evaluation of the National Science Foundation–funded project, Situating Big Data: Assessing Game-Based STEM Learning in Context. The project was a collaboration between three research teams (two at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and one at Arizona State University) around a shared dataset […]
REA at Teacher Quality Programs Summit
Jennifer Borland will be attending the Teacher Quality Programs Summit June 14th–15th in Washington, D.C. Hosted by the U.S. Department of Educations for PI’s and evaluators of TQP, SEED and other DOE-funded projects, Jennifer will be attending in her capacity as lead evaluator on Radford University’s Appalachian Support for Specialized Education Training (ASSET) program. This […]