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The Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI), in partnership with Oregon MESA, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), the World Forestry Center (WFC), and AB Cultural Drivers (ABCD) is...
DATES: August 1st, 2023 - June 30th, 2028
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We explored how families’ (1) use of materials, (2) verbal engagement, (3) hands-on engagement, (4) engineering design process talk, and (5) spatial language differed when doing a tinkering activity at...
DATE: March 22nd, 2024
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We asked whether storytelling during a playful problem-solving activity (i.e., tinkering) in informal educational settings (a children’s museum) might support children’s provision of engineering information in their reflections immediately after...
DATE: March 23rd, 2024
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We asked whether and how parents’ autonomy supportive language and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) talk advanced children’s STEM engagement during and after an engineering learning activity (i.e., tinkering)....
DATE: March 23rd, 2024
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We examined how children’s emotional engagement during an at-home tinkering activity may promote their STEM talk and relate to different tinkering approaches....
DATE: April 18th, 2024
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We explored how families’ use of story supports (i.e., toy characters) and program facilitation style (i.e., workshop vs. “drop in”) impacted: 1) Families’ associations to past experiences and fantasy elements...
DATE: April 18th, 2024
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This study asked whether age and emotional engagement was related to children’s STEM talk after tinkering....
DATE: April 18th, 2024
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As part of the project, Designing our Tomorrow—Mobilizing the Next Generation of Engineers (DOT), OMSI developed a set of professional development (PD) training modules as a resource for educators in...
DATE: July 8th, 2024
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The Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) follows an Equity Action Framework to
guide practices and decisions that can improve equity, diversity, accessibility, and inclusion at
OMSI. During the development of...
DATE: December 1st, 2023
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Through a strategic partnership between the Applied Wildlife Ecology Lab in the School of the Environment at Yale University and the Detroit Zoological Society, youth participants leveraged a trail camera...
DATE: June 25th, 2024
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Urban environments are remarkable natural laboratories to study ecology and speciation. These learning ecosystems are ecologically diverse and potentially more accessible for urban youth and their families. Unfortunately, disparities in...
DATES: November 1st, 2021 - September 29th, 2023
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The Museum of Science, Boston will create a customizable digital exhibit platform that can flexibly and inclusively support visitors’ engagement with any topic. Project activities include developing and testing a...
DATES: June 1st, 2021 - August 30th, 2024
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The OMSI Engagement Research and Advancement team collaborated with Rockman et al Cooperative – an education research and consulting firm – to conduct the summative evaluation of the exhibit. The...
DATE: June 12th, 2024
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This paper provides detailed descriptions of the goals, conceptual framing, strategies, research
questions, protocols, data analyses, and findings from a study of conversation participants’
choices and connections on the topic of engineering...
DATE: June 3rd, 2024
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The companion tool to Guidelines for Equitably Scaling Informal STEM Programs, the Collaborative Decision-Making Tool for Equitably Scaling Informal STEM Programs, helps practitioners implement the guidelines....
DATE: May 18th, 2024
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Guidelines for Equitably Scaling Informal STEM Programs outlines the contextual issues around scaling informal STEM programs, discusses the limitations of current frameworks for scaling, and provides six guidelines to consider...
DATE: May 18th, 2024
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The Co-Created Public Engagement with Science Project (CC-PES) led by the Museum of Science seeks to build capacity among museums and other informal science education (ISE) institutions to develop and...
DATE: June 1st, 2023
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The Co-Created Public Engagement with Science Project (CC-PES) led by the Museum of Science seeks to build capacity among museums and other informal science education (ISE) institutions to develop and...
DATE: January 1st, 2022
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The Ontario Science Centre applied for and received a grant from the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) under the Immunization Partnership Fund (IPF). The intention of the IPF is...
DATE: April 30th, 2023
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Museums, science centers, zoos and other informal science education (ISE) institutions often focus on the real and authentic a way to engage, inspire or inform the public. We refer to...
DATE: May 30th, 2024
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This toolkit includes recommendations for STEM youth programs in informal science learning sites....
DATE: August 1st, 2023
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One way to encourage youth to pursue training in the STEM fields and enter the STEM workforce is to foster interest and engagement in STEM during adolescence. Informal STEM Learning...
DATES: December 1st, 2017 - February 29th, 2024
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This systematic review was designed to strengthen the evidence base supporting the integration of STEM and social-emotional development (SED) in the out-of-school time (OST) field. Integrating STEM and SED has...
DATE: April 30th, 2024
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This systematic review examined intersections between the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and social-emotional development (SED) in out-of-school time (OST) programs....
DATE: April 30th, 2024
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Historically, spatial ability assessments have been used to measure spatial thinking on specific constructs in students participating in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) courses. High spatial ability is linked...
DATE: June 1st, 2023
