The Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education (CAISE) connects researchers, evaluators, practitioners, and other interested stakeholders working in the informal STEM education field. Our community works in diverse settings such as:
At our website, InformalScience.org, you will find over 8,000 resources, including project descriptions, research literature, evaluation reports, and other documents related to quality, evidence-based informal STEM learning work supported by a diversity of federal, local, and private funders. Topic areas include broadening participation, citizen science, socioscientific issues, family engagement, computational thinking / computer science, and more.
We work in cooperation with the National Science Foundation’s Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program, and are housed at the Association of Science-Technology Centers in Washington, DC.
