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St. John, Mark; Castori, Pam – Inverness Research, 2014
The Institute for Scientist & Engineer Educators (ISEE) is a national effort to improve STEM education and workforce development by transforming how the next generation of scientists and engineers teach and mentor. Housed at the University of California, Santa Cruz, ISEE is the legacy of the educational side of the Center for Adaptive Optics…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Science Course Improvement Projects, Labor Force Development, Professional Development
St. John, Mark; Castori, Pam – Inverness Research, 2014
The Akamai Workforce Initiative (AWI) is a program that seeks to develop a skilled local STEM workforce to meet the needs of Hawai'i's growing high-tech industry. Launched as an internship program in 2002, AWI is the result of a long-term collaboration among the University of California Santa Cruz's Institute for Scientist and Engineer Educators…
Descriptors: Program Design, Program Descriptions, Educational Development, Labor Force Development
St. John, Mark – Inverness Research, 2014
The Algebra Project DR K-12, funded by the National Science Foundation as a Research and Development Project, addressed the challenge of offering significant STEM content for students to ensure public literacy and workforce readiness. The project's primary purpose was to test the feasibility and effectiveness of a model for establishing four-year…
Descriptors: Summative Evaluation, Algebra, Demonstration Programs, Cohort Analysis
St. John, Mark; Carroll, Becky; Helms, Jen; Robles, Dawn; Stelmah, Lynn – Inverness Research, 2008
Over the course of three rounds of consecutive funding, the National Science Foundation (NSF) invested in the Traveling Exhibits at Museums of Science (TEAMS) collaborative. Since 1996, the TEAMS collaborative museums have developed traveling exhibitions and related education materials to circulate through each other's museums, and then more…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Summative Evaluation, Research Projects, Museums
Allen, Kasi; St. John, Mark; Tambe, Pamela – Inverness Research, 2009
Back in 1992, the National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded grants to five curriculum development teams and charged them with the task of starting over. Five years later, each of the development teams had produced an innovative and "integrated" curriculum. All represented notable departures from the commonly encountered, calculus-driven high…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Curriculum Development, High Schools, Mathematics Education
St. John, Mark; Carroll, Becky; Helms, Jen; Smith, Anita – Inverness Research, 2008
The Playful Invention and Exploration (PIE) Institute project was funded in 2005 by the National Science Foundation (NSF). For the past three years, Inverness Research has served as the external evaluator for the PIE project. The authors' evaluation efforts have included extensive observation and documentation of PIE project activities; ongoing…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Science Education, Teaching Methods, Informal Education