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Welcome to Today’s ECLIPS Webinar. Arrival & Check -in. What’s happened since our last gathering that you’d like to share with the group (either personal or professional) ?. ECLIPS Webinar August 17, 2012 Creating Fuzzy Logic Models for ECLIPS Work. Overview of Today’s Webinar Check-in
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Arrival & Check-in What’s happened sinceour last gathering that you’d like to share with the group (either personal or professional)?
ECLIPS WebinarAugust 17, 2012Creating Fuzzy Logic Models for ECLIPS Work
Overview of Today’s Webinar • Check-in • SEEs and RCLs share fuzzy logic model of their evaluation (logic model informed by systems thinking) (8 minutes each) • ECLIPS fuzzy logic model • Capturing learnings from ECLIPS work • Value-creation templates • Redesigned systems-informed evaluation plan • Plans for next webinars, October 28 meeting and AEA session
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Karen’s Evaluation Questions • To what degree: • 1. does videoconference technology support the participants? • 2. do students become skilled in data collection, analysis, and display? • 3. do students become skilled at using GIS technology to display and analyze data? • 4. do students gain skill in producing documentaries? • 5. do students gain skill at using data to answer questions about energy? • 6. do participants become more knowledgeable about energy production and use? • 7. do the students become more interested in pursuing an energy-related career or any STEM-related career?
Fuzzy Logic Model The Island Institute & Energy for ME
ITEST LEARNING RESOURCE CENTER FUZZY LOGIC MODEL ITEST LRC NSF Other STEM Education Stakeholders Technical Assistance and Collaboration Data Gathering and Synthesis Dissemination • Has information to: • Understand ITEST Portfolio, work effectively with PIs, and report to stakeholders within and outside of NSF • Inform future resource center design for NSF and other funders’ programs • Increase knowledge and adoption of effective ITEST models, interventions, strategies, and research-based practices ITEST Community • Facilitate Community of Practice • Annual Meeting • TA events (online, in-person) • Website • One-on-one support • Topical Interest Groups • Annual MIS questionnaire • Publications • Conference presentations Contribute and exchange knowledge, experience, and expertise Increase knowledge and capacity to design, evaluate, and refine individual projects Changes in practice positively affect implementation and evaluation ITEST Participants • Positive change in teaching practice • Increase STEM knowledge, skills, attitudes • Increase STEM Careers knowledge, skills, attitudes Increase underrepresented groups’ participation in the STEM workforce STEM Workforce Other STEM Education Programs
ECLIPS Fuzzy Logic Model (partial) Tipping PointPhase Dissonance Phase TestingPhase Common Evaluation Paradigm Shared learning Application ECLIPS 2.0 ECLIPS 1.0 Mutual respect Systems-oriented Evaluation Paradigm Examples Concept clarification Surrounding Conditions (other evaluation learners and learning formats, evaluation activities) New concepts
Capturing ECLIPS Learning • Values Creation Stories • Redesigned Systems-Informed Evaluation Plan
September Webinar Topics • Contextually Responsive Evaluation – Veronica Thomas • Check in on: • using Values Creation templates • revised evaluation plan for SEEs project • Plans for October 19 webinar and October 28 meeting