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Increasing internal stakeholder consensus about a university science center's outreach policies and procedures
Description
ABTRACT For decades the United States has tried to increase the number of students pursuing science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and careers. Educators and policy makers continue to seek strategies to increase the number of students in the STEM education pipeline. Public institutions of higher education are involved in this effort through education and public outreach (EPO) initiatives. Arizona State University opened its largest research facility, the new Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Building IV (ISTB4) in September, 2012. As the new home of the School of Earth & Space Exploration (SESE), ISTB4 was designed to serve the school's dedication to K-12 education and public outreach. This dissertation presents a menu of ideas for revamping the EPO program for SESE. Utilizing the Delphi method, I was able to clarify which ideas would be most supported, and those that would not, by a variety of important SESE stakeholders. The study revealed that consensus exists in areas related to staffing and expansion of free programming, whereas less consensus exist in the areas of fee-based programs. The following most promising ideas for improving the SESE's EPO effort were identified and will be presented to SESE's incoming director in July, 2013: (a) hire a full-time director, theater manager, and program coordinator; (b) establish a service-learning requirement obligating undergraduate SESE majors to serve as docent support for outreach programs; (c) obligate all EPO operations to advise, assist, and contribute to the development of curricula, activities, and exhibits; (d) perform a market and cost analysis of other informational education venues offering similar programming; (3) establish a schedule of fee-based planetarium and film offerings; and (f) create an ISTB4 centric, fee-based package of programs specifically correlated to K12 education standards that can be delivered as a fieldtrip experience.
Date Created
2013
Contributors
- Fisher, Richard D. (Author)
- Clark, Christopher M. (Thesis advisor)
- Kelley, Michael (Committee member)
- Glasper, Rufus (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
Topical Subject
- Education (Higher)
- science education
- Organization Theory
- Consensus
- Delphi
- Outreach
- STEM
- Museum outreach programs--Arizona--Tempe--Administration.
- Museum outreach programs
- Science museums--Arizona--Tempe--Administration.
- Science museums
- Community and college--Arizona--Tempe--Evaluation.
- Community and college
- Earth sciences--Study and teaching--Arizona--Tempe.
- Earth Sciences
- Space sciences--Study and teaching--Arizona--Tempe.
- Space sciences
Resource Type
Extent
x, 97 p. : ill
Language
Copyright Statement
In Copyright
Primary Member of
Peer-reviewed
No
Open Access
No
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.17714
Statement of Responsibility
by Richard D. Fisher
Description Source
Viewed on Feb. 17, 2015
Level of coding
full
Note
Partial requirement for: Ed. D., Arizona State University, 2013
Note type
thesis
Includes bibliographical references (p. 57-59)
Note type
bibliography
Field of study: Higher and postsecondary education
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- 2021-08-30 01:42:56
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