Biography: Polly Hubbard
Polly Hubbard
Senior Researcher
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Polly_Hubbard@terc.edu
Program/Areas of Interest
Evaluation of educational programs and products; Informal education in museums and afterschool sites; Science teaching and learning
TERC Projects
- Accessing Science Ideas
- Capuano Early Childhood Center Exhibits
- Contribution of Science Fair to Middle School Student Interest in Science Careers
- Evaluation Group
- Girls' Energy Conservation Corps (GECCo)
- Perceived Impact of Science Fair Participation on Scientists' and Engineers' Interest in Science
Biographical Summary
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Polly Hubbard is a co-leader of TERC’s Evaluation Group and since 2001, a researcher with science-based evaluation and research projects. She is the investigator on a series of projects associated with the impact of science fair on students funded by the Noyce Foundation; the project director for Accessing Science Ideas, an NSF research study developing and testing middle school materials for students with executive function challenges; and is the formative evaluator for the NSF development project Girls' Energy Conservation Corps (GECCo). Previously, she was the project director of BioTeach, a high school teacher-training program of the Massachusetts Biotechnology Educational Foundation and assisted with the design and of the summative evaluation of the National Teacher Leader program for the Biotechnology Institute.
The former co-chair of the Educational Programs group of the New England Museum Association, she also has experience developing and managing learning programs in informal education for the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, New York Public Library’s Center for Humanities and the Peabody Museum of Salem. She holds degrees in anthropology and education from Vassar College and Teachers College, Columbia University.
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Associations
American Evaluation Association
