Poster #30 - Clean Energy Literacy and Leadership: Engaging Youth in or After School

• In Event: 35.081 - MTCC Poster Session Eight
  In Poster Session: 35.081-3 - Science Teaching and Learning SIG Poster Session

Abstract

The proposed paper describes the variations in outcomes of a university-based outreach program that was implemented either during the school day, where participation is more or less assigned, or afterschool, where participation is self-selected. In both implementation settings, students learned about critical environmental issues and engaged in hands-on, inquiry- and materials-based activities that familiarized them with key science and engineering practices. However, the program implementation varied across settings, due, in part, to student expectations and support from school faculty. While we found no difference on gains in competency beliefs, career affinity, or science activism, findings suggest that students enrolled in the in school program experience had, on average, greater gains in valuing of science than students in the afterschool program.

Authors

• Rosalinda Nava, University of California - Berkeley

• Matthew A. Cannady, University of California - Berkeley

• Valeria Romero, University of California - Berkeley

• Kevin Cuff, Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California - Berkeley

• Rena Dorph, University of California - Berkeley