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Georgia Tech STEP: Student and Teacher Enhancement Partnership 2006 GK-12 Grantees Conference (1) Llewellyn. Partnerships. What are they? How do we assess them?. How do we model them?. What is a partnership?.
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Georgia Tech STEP:Student and Teacher Enhancement Partnership2006 GK-12 Grantees Conference (1) Llewellyn
Partnerships • What are they? • How do we assess them? • How do we model them?
What is a partnership? • A voluntary arrangement between organizations, anchored by agreements, to promote the exchange, sharing, or co-development of products or programs designed to stimulate science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education.
Spillover • Outcomes that partners accrue through participation in the partnership which are not articulated as part of the original program objectives. • Spillover Diagram
How to model a partnership over time? • We want to: • Formalize the gut feeling that we have about the partnership growing and changing over time • Quantify different aspects of the partnership • Compare our partnerships with the different high schools
Social Networks • Using graph theory to analyze the density and connectedness of our partnerships; and how these features change over time.
Figure 1—Screen Shot of UCINET 6 Social Network Analysis Software http://www.analytictech.com/ucinet.htm Ucinet for Windows: Software for Social Network Analysis. Harvard, MA: Analytic Technologies. Borgatti, S.P., Everett, M.G. and Freeman, L.C. 2002. NetDraw: Graph Visualization Software. Harvard: Analytic Technologies. Borgatti, S.P. 2002.
Two types of networks here: • People to people • People to activities
Critical Features of a Successful Partnership • Mutual Benefits • Alignment with strategic institutional goals • These are necessary for institutionalization!
Contact Information • Donna Llewellyn (PI) donna.llewellyn@cetl.gatech.edu 404-894-2340 • Marion Usselman (co-PI) marion.usselman@ceismc.gatech.edu 404-894-9673