CAISE Media Convening 2011

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The Center for the Advancement of Informal Science Education (CAISE) organized a series of meetings with creators of science media. A two-day gathering of ISE media principal investigators was held in Washington D.C. to develop a shared new research agenda for science media projects; and plan for follow-up products and related activities to be disseminated via the CAISE website, professional networks, conferences and the 2012 PI Summit.

Below are the major events:

  • ISE Media PI Survey: April 2011 31 media PIs (identified by POs) were surveyed to inform and refine exploration topics for the initiative.
  • Meeting Planning: May 2011 with Steering Team to design convening, activities and dissemination strategies; BISE analysis and preparation of synthesis findings for media evaluation.
  • Convening Event: July 2011 (7/12-13) meeting with 20 participants (15 media PIs, 3 evaluators/researchers, 2 presenters).
  • Dissemination Strategy:  Cross-media meeting coverage and documentation of meeting insights for CAISE website, other CAISE initiatives, and  development of a shared agenda for the 2012 PI Summit.

The planning committee agreed on 3 major topics for discussion: 

TOPIC 1 : Explore how to build a culture of reflective practice among ISE media PIs to better understand and facilitate science learning with media content and media making.

TOPIC 2 : As a group explain, refine, map and characterize what we collectively want to know about the impacts of science media projects and what we can come to know through research instruments.

TOPIC 3 : Consider how to make evaluation more accessible for ISE media PIs by…

a) Defining meaningful and measurable impacts;

b) Building a common language to express these impacts and;

c) Improving the communication design and dissemination of findings by evaluators.

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