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

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Critical Features of a Successful Partnership Mutual Benefits Alignment with strategic institutional goals

These are necessary for institutionalization!

Contact Information

Donna Llewellyn (PI)

donna.llewellyn@cetl.gatech.edu

404-894-2340

Marion Usselman (co-PI)

marion.usselman@ceismc.gatech.edu

404-894-9673