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This chapter brings together cultural-historical approaches to human development with interpretive and multi-sited ethnography in order to: (1) develop ethnographic tools that attend to the ways young people learn within...
DATE: January 1st, 2014
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This review examines how natural history museums (NHMs) can enhance learning and engagement in science, particularly for school-age students. First, we describe the learning potential of informal science learning institutions...
DATE: March 15th, 2018
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This paper attempts to reframe popular notions of āfailureā as recently celebrated in the Maker Movement, Silicon Valley, and beyond. Building on Vossoughi et al.ās 2013 FabLearn publication describing how...
DATE: September 27th, 2015
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The purpose of this study was to examine the exhibition developer role in the context of United States (U.S.) science centers, and more specifically, to investigate the way science center...
DATE: January 1st, 2012
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The fields of science education and science communication are said to have developed as disparate fields of research and practice, operating based on somewhat different logics and premises about their...
DATE: September 9th, 2020
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The NSF-funded project titled An Informal Learning Model of Genetic and Genomic Education for Adult Bilingual Learners, was led by Joanne Sandberg, PhD. The project included three phases:
Phase I: Investigation...
DATE: August 31st, 2022
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In 2022, Kera Collective partnered with Made By Us to evaluate the impact of its flagship program, Civic Season, in its second year running. Held annually between Juneteenth and July...
DATE: October 31st, 2022
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Inverness Research has been the external evaluator for CAISE for the past eight years. The year 8 and year 9 report, along with a brief executive summary, highlights findings from...
DATE: October 1st, 2016
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This guidebook will help you plan your action project. The initial brainstorm pages will help you consider where to start, and the Action Project Framework will navigate you through steps...
DATE: December 8th, 2022
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This project focuses on environmental health literacy and will explore the extent to which diverse rural and urban youth in an out-of-school STEM enrichment program exhibit gains in environmental health...
DATES: August 1st, 2019 - July 31st, 2022
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A two-year pilot a two-year pilot and feasibility study funded by NSFās Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) Program (NSF Award # 1906846)
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DATE: August 1st, 2019
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The Center for the Advancement of Informal Science Education (CAISE) is mid-way through year five of a five-year cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation. The NSF funded CAISE in...
DATE: November 1st, 2011
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Individuals do not all come to tasks, activities, or assignments with the same readiness to engage. Differences in the ability to focus, comprehend, or problem-solve can lead to inequalities of...
DATE: March 11th, 2020
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Advances in technology, science, and learning sciences research over the past 100 years have reshaped science education. This chapter focuses on how investigators from varied fields of inquiry who initially...
DATE: March 1st, 2016
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Doctoral students in science disciplines spend countless hours learning how to conduct cutting-edge research but very little time learning to communicate the nature and significance of their science to people...
DATE: March 30th, 2018
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In recent years, transmedia has come into the spotlight among those creating and using media and technology for children. We believe that transmedia has the potential to be a valuable...
DATE: March 16th, 2013
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Supporting more equitable participation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) remains a key, persistent educational challenge. This paper employs a sociological Bourdieusian lens to explore how equitable youth outcomes...
DATE: October 28th, 2020
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With the ongoing need for water conservation, the American Southwest has worked to increase harvested rainwater efforts to meet municipal needs. Concomitantly, environmental pollution is prevalent, leading to concerns regarding...
DATE: December 5th, 2022
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Community monitoring of harvested rainwater in underserved, rural and urban Arizona communities
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DATE: December 5th, 2022
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Environmental health literacy (EHL) has recently been deļ¬ned as the continuum of environmental health knowledge and awareness, skills and self-efļ¬cacy, and community action. In this study, an interdisciplinary team of...
DATE: October 9th, 2018
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Environmental health citizen science (CS) offers a strategy for historically disenfranchised community members to inform research questions, collect and analyze data, and draw conclusions about contaminants in their local environments...
DATE: March 3rd, 2020
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BACKGROUND: Environmental health risks are disproportionately colocated with communities in poverty and communities of color. In some cases, participatory research projects have eļ¬ectively addressed structural causes of health risk in...
DATE: February 1st, 2021
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Through desk-based research and expert interviews, this study set out to investigate how funders and policy makers could drive coordination and improvements in the evaluation of youth engagement with STEM....
DATE: November 23rd, 2022
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In 2021, we worked with the Smithsonian Institutionās American Womenās History Initiative (AWHI) to design and implement a baseline study that would measure the long-term impacts of the Because of...
DATE: September 23rd, 2022
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Funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Access from the Ground Up project at the Palo Alto Junior Museum & Zoo (JMZ) seeks to better serve children...
DATE: April 18th, 2022
