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Adding Families to the Equation in Appalachia is a multi-state collaborative effort to improve parental involvement in science, mathematics, and technology education in a region of Central Appalachia noted for...
DATES: May 1st, 1997 - September 30th, 1998
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This study explores how activities developed by science experts in partnership with middle school teachers were employed and interpreted. The goals of this partnership were to (a) help the science...
DATE: April 1st, 2011
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The Addressing Gender Barriers in STEM through Theatre of Social Engagement project responds to the need to educate the public about the careers in computer and information science and engineering...
DATES: September 15th, 2010 - August 31st, 2013
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The Adirondack All-Taxa Biodiversity Inventory is a biological information-gathering process dependent upon and supported by the citizens of the Adirondacks. It acknowledges the interdependence between stakeholders and the biological community...
DATES: January 1st, 2009 - January 1st, 2009
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This is an abstract of Marilyn G. Hood's 1981 Ph.D. dissertation at Ohio State University. Hood researched the relationship between critical attributes of leisure choices and audience preferences for selected...
DATE: January 1st, 1990
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This policy recommendations report is intended to provide guidance for policy-makers on maximizing the beneficial impact of digital technologies on adult informal learning. It provides a concise summary of the...
DATE: March 1st, 2009
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The Institute for Learning Innovation, Inc., requests $264,904 to pilot a project for establishing a national program to provide parents and significant other adults with support, training and materials. Also,...
DATES: October 1st, 1998 - March 31st, 2002
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In this paper we describe two projects that utilize reality-based interaction to advance collaborative scientific inquiry and discovery. We discuss the relation between reality-based and embodied interaction, and present findings...
DATE: May 7th, 2011
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The proposal intends to develop software that, when combined with the OMNI device, produces a virtual touch sensation that allows the blind to "touch" surfaces such as Mars, Earth's Moon,...
DATES: October 1st, 2005 - March 31st, 2008
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American Chemical Society President Bassam Z. Shakhashiri appointed and charged this Commission to undertake a wholesale review of graduate education in the chemical sciences over a yearlong period. This document...
DATE: December 3rd, 2012
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Despite originally being almost exclusively focused on the school context, the National Science Education Standards (NSES) emerged as an amazingly relevant document for the informal context as well. All four...
DATE: May 24th, 2007
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The idea that there are models in existence for electricity and how to improve its generation and utilization is an important quest in light of our resources. This CRPA project...
DATES: July 15th, 2011 - July 30th, 2013
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The Milwaukee Public Museum will develop Adventures in Science: An Interactive Exhibit Gallery. This will be a 7250 sq. ft. interactive exhibit with associated public programs and materials that link...
DATES: January 1st, 1998 - December 31st, 2003
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Some 400 years after Galileo, modern telescopes have enabled humanity to "see" what the natural eye cannot. Astronomical images today contain information about incredibly large objects located across vast distances...
DATE: September 1st, 2010
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A strategy for heightening university students' awareness within aesthetic encounters is described. The strategy, called aesthetigrams, is the focus of on going qualitative research, the purpose of which is to...
DATE: May 1st, 1998
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In this paper, Lisa Roberts of the Chicago Botanic Garden addresses some of the issues related to affective learning in the museum setting. She discusses two areas in particular: factors...
DATE: January 1st, 1992
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Researchers and practitioners in the US and the UK, organized by Twin Cities Public Television in collaboration with co-PIs from Indiana University and the University of Bradford in the UK,...
DATES: December 1st, 2014 - November 30th, 2015
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This qualitative study examined the perspectives of African American parents as it pertained to informal science education. The following questions guided this study: (1) What are the desires of African...
DATE: March 1st, 2009
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In this paper, evaluator Marilyn G. Hood of Hood Associates examines 70 years of audience research and what we know about frequent visitors versus occasional visitors. Hood recommends broadening evaluators'...
DATE: January 1st, 1993
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A fact sheet on after school science education, prepared by the Coalition for Science After School....
DATE: June 24th, 2014
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The Science Museum of Minnesota will develop "After the Dinosaurs", an exhibit that will feature a detailed reconstruction of the ecology of a Paleocene subtropical environment that existed in the...
DATES: July 1st, 1997 - June 30th, 2002
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Principal involvement is a critical component of schoolbased afterschool programming. A logic model of six potential roles principals can play in afterschool programs offers a basis for consensus between principals...
DATE: March 1st, 2007
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The article discusses the outcomes of the Mathematics Improvement That Ensures Excellence (MITEE), an after-school mathematics tutoring program in the U.S. which aims at improving the mathematics conceptual understanding and...
DATE: September 1st, 2011
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After-School Math PLUS (ASM+) uses the rapidly growing field of informal education as a venue to develop positive attitudes, build conceptual knowledge, and sharpen skills in mathematics for underserved youth...
DATES: March 1st, 2004 - February 28th, 2009
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After-School Program Exploring Science (APEX) proposes to develop and implement a training model that will enhance the capacity of community-based after-school programs to provide science-learning opportunities for children ages 5-10....
DATES: July 1st, 2004 - June 30th, 2008
