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Year Published: 2016
Build IT is an afterschool and summer curriculum for middle school youth to develop fluency in information technology (IT), interest in mathematics and knowledge of IT careers. In this selection of evaluation data from the 2012-2013 school year, participants demonstrated gains along three major categories of youth outcomes—interest in STEM, capacity to engage in STEM, and finding value in STEM.
Program Description: Build IT is an afterschool and summer curriculum for middle school youth to develop fluency in information technology (IT), interest in mathematics and knowledge of IT careers. The program—co-developed by SRI International and the Girls Inc. of Alameda County—is designed to engage girls and African-American and Latino/a youth.
Scope of the Evaluation: National
Program Type: Afterschool
Community Type: Urban, Suburban
Grade level: Middle School
Program Demographics: 95 percent girls, more than 80 percent of whom are African-American and Latina, and the majority of whom are from low-income households.
Program Website: https://www.sri.com/work/projects/build-it
Evaluator: Hatchuel Tabernik & Associates
Evaluation Methods: Staff collect ongoing outcomes data through performance tasks, concept surveys and attitude surveys. Evaluation data is collected during specific research projects and includes participant, facilitator, staff and parent surveys, as well as interviews and observations with youth and facilitators.
Evaluation Type: Non-experimental
Outcomes:
Below is a selection of evaluation data reported by the program around three major categories of youth outcomes—interest in STEM, capacity to productively engage in STEM, and finding value in STEM. These outcomes are an excerpt from a 2016 Afterschool Alliance paper, "The Impact of Afterschool STEM: Examples from the Field."
Capacity: I can do this
Value: This is important to me
Associated Evaluation: http://afterschoolalliance.org/documents/AfterschoolSTEMImpacts2016.pdf