https://phys.org/news/2018-06-center-national-k-makerspaces.html

The report was co-authored with Drexel School of Education researchers Kareem Edouard, Ph.D., Katelyn Alderfer, and Professor Brian Smith, Ph.D.

Making Culture, part of the ExCITe Center's Learning Innovation initiative, is the product of a year-long investigation visiting 30 K-12 education makerspaces across 12 metropolitan regions. Through in-depth interviews with students, instructors, and leadership alongside observation and study of each space and its programs, the researchers found encouraging indicators for increased student engagement with learning through makerspace participation and development of a "maker mindset" (creation, iteration, agency and collaboration) through a range of different projects, curricula, and practices.