The Seek & Share Resources Tool: Measuring a Learning Practice of Making. Issue 2 (13th September 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: White, Annie M.; Saplan, Kailea; Wardrip, Peter S.; Bank, Alison; Akiva, Thomas; Brahms, Lisa
• Is Part Of: Visitor studies. Volume 25:Issue 2(2022)
• Page Start: 217
• Page End: 237
• Publication Date: 2022-09-13
• Subjects: Makerspace -- museum -- observation tool; Visitors' centers -- Periodicals; Exhibitions -- Periodicals; Museum visitors -- Periodicals; Art museum visitors -- Periodicals; Zoo visitors -- Periodicals; 069
• DOI: 10.1080/10645578.2022.2056406
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1064-5578

Abstract

Abstract: The maker movement has grown rapidly in educational contexts during the past decade. The field now needs valid, reliable measurement tools to capture learning that occurs in maker-based activities. In this study, facilitators and researchers from five organizations engaged in a codesign process to develop a tool measuring how learners seek and share resources while making. We describe our process of collaboratively developing, testing, and revising the Seek & Share Resources Tool and the coding protocol with strong validity. Two researchers coded 50 videos depicting learners ages 0-14 engaging in diverse maker-based activities yielding high inter-rater reliability for the tool. The Seek & Share Resources Tool offers a valid, reliable measure of learning behavior in making and our process may be replicated in future research of rigorous measurement tool design.