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Assessing the Impact of a Visit to a Zoo or Aquarium: A Multi-institutional Research Project will create a functional taxonomy of zoo/aquarium visitors' entering knowledge, attitudes and behaviors. This taxonomy,...
DATES: September 1st, 2003 - August 31st, 2010
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The museum is a physical setting that visitors usually freely choose to enter. The physical context for all museum visits (Falk and Dierking, 1992) includes the architecture and "feel" of...
DATE: June 3rd, 1993
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Published in Curator: The Museum Journal. No abstract available....
DATE: January 1st, 2000
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This article discusses the challenge of assessing the readability of labels. Two solutions to this problem are offered and briefly summarized: apply readability formulas to the text or obtain visitor...
DATE: November 1st, 1996
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In informal learning environments such as museums and science centers, researchers sometimes assess the effect of learners’ experiences by looking at their engagement. In this paper, researchers Barriault and Pearson...
DATE: December 1st, 2014
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This paper presents background information, methodology and findings from an exploratory study conducted in 1996 by researchers at Colorado State University, Department of Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism. Researchers examined...
DATE: January 1st, 1997
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The National Air and Space Museum (NASM) contracted with Randi Korn & Associates, Inc. (RK&A) to help determine realistic strategies and next steps for scaling up its Science in Pre-K...
DATE: March 4th, 2014
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This is a handout from the session "20+ Trending Tech Tools That Make Work Easier, You Smarter" at the 2014 ASTC Conference held in Raleigh, NC. It includes a link...
DATE: October 18th, 2014
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In November 2012, ASTC asked its science center and museum members to submit annual on-site attendance data for calendar years 2002 to 2011. One hundred fifty-five science centers and museums...
DATE: March 1st, 2013
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The Maryland Science Center (MSC) Astrobiology project includes an interactive exhibit and Davis Planetarium program for school and public museum visitors, exploring the search for life in our Solar System,...
DATES: September 1st, 2010 - June 30th, 2014
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ASTRONOMY - HOW DO WE KNOW? is a 4100 sq. ft. exhibit and program package for Discovery Place that will: 1) interpret the physical and chemical nature of astronomical bodies...
DATES: July 15th, 1991 - October 31st, 1994
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The explosion in mobile apps in the last few years has meant that many new astronomy applications have become available. This catalog is a first attempt to make a list...
DATE: December 1st, 2011
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This is one of three focus point presentations as part of the session titled "Community Building for Citizen Science," delivered on day three of the Citizen Science Toolkit Conference at...
DATE: June 20th, 2007
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The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) will develop and test a new model of informal science education professional development to help small museums increase the public's knowledge and interest...
DATES: March 1st, 2005 - August 31st, 2010
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Presentation on NSF grant DRL-0451933 (""Astronomy from the Ground Up: Building Capacity in Smaller Informal Science Education Institutions"") presented at the CAISE Convening on Professional Development and Informal Science Education,...
DATE: February 2nd, 2012
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In spring 2012, our team of Museology graduate students conducted a formative evaluation of Pacific Science Center’s (PSC) ongoing Live Science Shows. These shows, which happen daily and cover a...
DATE: April 1st, 2012
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"Atmospheric Explorations: Participatory, Computer-Based Simulations of the Weather" is a collaborative project of Augsburg College and the Science Museum of Minnesota. The purpose of the project is to enhance the...
DATES: October 1st, 1993 - March 31st, 1998
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The Center for Atmospheric and Space Sciences (CASS) at Augsburg College, in collaboration with the Science Museum of Minnesota, is developing three exhibit clusters on important weather and climate systems...
DATES: July 1st, 1998 - June 30th, 2003
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This paper discusses attention labels and differentiates between sensory orientation and motivational attention. Studies related to each aspect of attention are included to demonstrate how different variables influence each type...
DATE: November 1st, 1996
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The Exploratorium will develop an exhibit focusing on three areas of mental activity that process perceptions and enable human action: attention, emotion and judgment. Developers will create 32 new interactive...
DATES: July 1st, 2004 - June 30th, 2009
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This instrument is for measuring the attitudes toward science in seventh- and eighth-grade students. The instrument can be used to investigate the relationship between science achievement and attitude toward science...
DATE: December 2nd, 2010
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The practice and use of assessments in the informal science education (ISE) realm is highly diverse and inconsistent, with differing stakeholders having dramatically different attitudes towards which assessments (if any)...
DATE: May 4th, 2012
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The Attitudes Toward Mathematics Inventory (ATMI) is a 40 question, 4-factor survey designed to measure high school and college students’ attitudes toward mathematics. Unlike other math assessments, the ATMI was...
DATE: January 1st, 1996
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This article describes findings from a study of over 250 professionals who deal with visitors in exhibition-type facilities. Researchers studied attitudes about exhibit evaluation, specifically about the value and funding...
DATE: January 1st, 1987
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In this paper, researchers from Colorado State University and the Denver Museum of Natural History discuss the topic of attitude persuasion in exhibits. First, they define the concepts attitude, belief...
DATE: January 1st, 1992
