Using Retrospective Surveys to Assess the Impact of Participating in an Afterschool Maker Learning Program on Youth

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https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1991-6062

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2020-06-22

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Hamidi, Foad, Adena Moulton, Shawn Grimes, Stephanie Grimes, and Andrew Coy. “Using Retrospective Surveys to Assess the Impact of Participating in an Afterschool Maker Learning Program on Youth,” 2020. https://peer.asee.org/using-retrospective-surveys-to-assess-the-impact-of-participating-in-an-afterschool-maker-learning-program-on-youth.

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As the number of afterschool technology-rich maker learning programs for youth increases, it is important to investigate effective assessment tools that can be used to assess program impact at scale. We studied results from a series of surveys using two deployment modes with 94 youth who participated in programs at an afterschool maker learning center. We found that retrospective surveys that ask youth to reflect on shifts in their attitudes after completing a program are more effective than the same surveys deployed twice, pre- and post- a program. These results confirm input from youth interviews in which they expressed dislike of repeating the same surveys before and after a program and difficulty with answering self-assessment questions without a point of reference.