georgia tech step: student and teacher enhancement partnership 2006 gk-12 grantees conference...
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Georgia Tech STEP:Student and Teacher Enhancement
Partnership
2006 GK-12 Grantees Conference (1)Llewellyn
Partnerships
What are they? How do we assess them? How do we model them?
What is a partnership?
A voluntary arrangement between organizations, anchored by agreements, to promote the exchange, sharing, or co-development of products or programs designed to stimulate science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education.
Spillover Outcomes that partners accrue through
participation in the partnership which are not articulated as part of the original program objectives.
Spillover Diagram
How to model a partnership over time? We want to:
Formalize the gut feeling that we have about the partnership growing and changing over time
Quantify different aspects of the partnership
Compare our partnerships with the different high schools
Social Networks
Using graph theory to analyze the density and connectedness of our partnerships; and how these features change over time.
Figure 1—Screen Shot of UCINET 6 Social Network Analysis Softwarehttp://www.analytictech.com/ucinet.htm
NetDraw: Graph Visualization Software. Harvard: Analytic Technologies. Borgatti, S.P. 2002.
Ucinet for Windows: Software for Social Network Analysis. Harvard, MA: Analytic Technologies. Borgatti, S.P., Everett, M.G. and Freeman, L.C. 2002.
Two types of networks here:
People to people People to activities
Year 1
Year 3
Year 1
Year 3
Critical Features of a Successful Partnership Mutual Benefits Alignment with strategic institutional goals
These are necessary for institutionalization!
Contact Information
Donna Llewellyn (PI)
404-894-2340
Marion Usselman (co-PI)
404-894-9673