Open Lab Night (OLN) at Bridgewater State University (BSU) provides the general public a unique opportunity to peek inside labs in the STEM disciplines at BSU, learn about teaching and research instrumentation, and participate in a wide variety of hands-on activities.  Part II of this two-part presentation will provide an opportunity for the outreach community to exchange ideas on innovative approaches to the assessment of chemistry outreach education.  We will outline our design of hands-on lab activities, and initial attempts at developing learning objectives, metrics, and an assessment plan.  We will discuss our preliminary assessment data on how OLN may be impacting interest in chemistry for students and the general public, in gaining a better appreciation for the critical impacts of chemistry in everyday life, and on how the learning objectives may affect the design of future OLN ideas.

Open lab night outreach education at Bridgewater State University: Part II - learning objectives, metrics and assessment

251st National Meeting (2016)

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