Cracking the Code is a recently completed three year Advancing Informal Science Learning (AISL) innovations research project funded by NSF, between KQED, Texas Tech and Yale universities. This project represents one of the largest public investments in science communication and media research practitioner partnerships (RPPs). Rockman et al Cooperative conducted a rigorous external process evaluation […]
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National Science Foundation (NSF) Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) Funding Opportunity
The National Science Foundation’s Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) program has announced its FY 2021 competition. ITEST is a research and development program that provides direct student learning opportunities to students in pre-Kindergarten through high school using innovative technology to “strengthen knowledge and interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and […]
National Science Foundation (NSF) Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) Funding Opportunity
What do youth app developers, a mathematically-inclined feline, and trout fishermen using an online tool to identify aquatic insects have in common? They’re all examples of informal STEM learning in action that Rockman et al is fortunate to have in its evaluation portfolio. They’ve also been funded by the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Advancing Informal […]
New NSF Project Looks to Outsmart Artificial Intelligence
As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more and more powerful and pervasive, computers increasingly perform tasks normally handled by humans. In the process, AI is restructuringour everyday interactions. While this branch of computer science arose in the 1950s, recent advances in computational processing have allowed researchers and developers to apply AI in increasingly practical ways that […]
National Science Foundation (NSF) Discovery Research PreK-12 (DRK-12) Funding Opportunity
When I tell people about the K-12 science programs I evaluate, they invariably say “I wish they had something like that when I was in school!” I agree. At Rockman et al, my colleagues and I have studied projects that use interactive multimedia to teach evolution, that give students opportunities to analyze real scientific data, […]