31.044 - MakEval: Mixed Methods Approaches to Evaluating Making in Schools

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Making has gained a lot of attention in the last few years for its promise in engaging a wide array of learners, but there is a lack of robust instruments available for assessing these experiences. While we and others have attempted to tinker with rubrics or tools that exist for evaluating STEM-learning in making experiences, it has been our experience that extant tools do not directly transfer to making contexts. In this session we will present a series of talks about a suite of tools we developed to measure constructs that maker educators indicated they need to assess making, including: agency, STEM practices, STEM interest and identity, creativity and critical thinking.

Sub Unit

• Division H - Research, Evaluation and Assessment in Schools / Division H - Section 3: Assessment in Schools

Chair

• Adam V. Maltese, Indiana University

Papers

• Agency - Jean J. Ryoo, University of California - Los Angeles

• STEM Practices - Amber Simpson, Binghamton University - SUNY

• Creativity - Meihua Qian, Clemson University

• STEM Interest, Identity, and Career Awareness - Adam V. Maltese, Indiana University; Kelli M. Paul, Indiana University - Bloomington

• Critical Thinking - Alice C. Anderson, Minneapolis Institute of Art; Lisa Brahms, Children's Museum of Pittsburgh

Discussant

• Yoon Jeon Kim, Massachusetts Institute of Technology