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Enhancing STEM Education Through Partnerships: Modeling and Assessing Success

Explore the concept of partnerships in STEM education, including spillover effects, modeling over time, and social network analysis. Learn how to quantify and compare partnerships using graph theory and software tools. Discover critical features of successful partnerships and ways to align with institutional goals for long-term impact.

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Enhancing STEM Education Through Partnerships: Modeling and Assessing Success

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  1. Georgia Tech STEP:Student and Teacher Enhancement Partnership2006 GK-12 Grantees Conference (1) Llewellyn

  2. Partnerships • What are they? • How do we assess them? • How do we model them?

  3. What is a partnership? • A voluntary arrangement between organizations, anchored by agreements, to promote the exchange, sharing, or co-development of products or programs designed to stimulate science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education.

  4. Spillover • Outcomes that partners accrue through participation in the partnership which are not articulated as part of the original program objectives. • Spillover Diagram

  5. How to model a partnership over time? • We want to: • Formalize the gut feeling that we have about the partnership growing and changing over time • Quantify different aspects of the partnership • Compare our partnerships with the different high schools

  6. Social Networks • Using graph theory to analyze the density and connectedness of our partnerships; and how these features change over time.

  7. Figure 1—Screen Shot of UCINET 6 Social Network Analysis Software http://www.analytictech.com/ucinet.htm Ucinet for Windows: Software for Social Network Analysis. Harvard, MA: Analytic Technologies. Borgatti, S.P., Everett, M.G. and Freeman, L.C. 2002. NetDraw: Graph Visualization Software. Harvard: Analytic Technologies. Borgatti, S.P. 2002.

  8. Two types of networks here: • People to people • People to activities

  9. Year 1

  10. Year 3

  11. Year 1

  12. Year 3

  13. Critical Features of a Successful Partnership • Mutual Benefits • Alignment with strategic institutional goals • These are necessary for institutionalization!

  14. Contact Information • Donna Llewellyn (PI) donna.llewellyn@cetl.gatech.edu 404-894-2340 • Marion Usselman (co-PI) marion.usselman@ceismc.gatech.edu 404-894-9673

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