A Program Director’s Guide to Evaluating STEM Education Programs: Lessons Learned from Local, State, and National Initiatives

Written for program directors, program managers, educators, and others responsible for developing and implementing STEM programs in schools and community-based organizations, this guide seeks to reduce “evaluation anxiety” for those who are not professional evaluators. The authors provide evaluation guidelines and resources, offer suggestions on how to develop a comfortable and productive program-evaluation team relationship, and emphasize the role of program evaluation in helping inform STEM education practice and policy.