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In this study we examined three after-school settings for 8 weeks focusing on storyboarding, chatting on a social network site, videotaped conversations with volunteer facilitators, presentations the youth made at the end of the program, and structured interviews with researchers to look for

Engaging middle school youth in STEM curricula resulting in desired conceptual changes is challenging. Furthermore, social media are identified as platforms where youth naturally congregate for sustained interaction.

The concept of connected learning proposes that youth leverage individual interest and social media to drive learning with an academic focus.

The MUSIC model was developed by Jones (2009) to help instructors better understand how current motivation research and theories can be applied to instruction.

The Heat Transfer Evaluation assesses knowledge about heat transfer.  This 12-item assessment uses a multiple choice format.

The link and the attached provide the Heat Transfer Evaluation instrument.

The Teacher Academic Support Scale measures a student's perceived support from teachers.The 4-item Teacher Academic Support Scale (Cronbach's et = .84) asks about perceived support for learning, such as 'My teachers like to help me learn.' 

The Student Academic Support Scale (SASS) is a method of assessing the frequency, importance, and mode of communicating academic support among college students.  The SASS is a 15-item scale that uses a 5-point Likert scale for each item.  

The Intrinsic Motivation Inventory (IMI) is a multidimensional measurement device intended to assess participants' subjective experience related to a target activity in laboratory experiments.