| Evaluation Purposes:
Describes evaluation purpose as formative, intended use by stakeholders, and shift in focus of evaluation in year 1.
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Goals of the Formative Evaluation Interim Report
The purpose of this report is to summarize formative evaluation team's
activities to date and to report to project staff the preliminary
findings from the evaluation. These findings are intended to be used in
adjusting curriculum, improving professional development, and carrying out
other work on Build IT moving forward.
The focus of the formative evaluation during the first unit of Build IT
shifted from an initial plan to understand how girls’ participation and
their mastery and appropriation of the design process, concepts, and skills
developed over time, to an emphasis on how the curriculum was being
implemented. We have focused on the challenges and successes the group
leaders experienced in implementing the curriculum, using their feedback,
data collected through observations and interviews, and our review of the
curriculum, to advise the curriculum team on how to improve the curriculum.
This work focuses on the research questions, "Which of the intended task
situations in the curriculum do staff find easy or challenging to enact,
and how do they adapt them to changing program conditions?" and, "Which of
the intended roles for girls as designers are they able to take up, and at
what point during the curriculum experience are they able to take them up?"
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