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Over three years, Science Central is producing 624 television segments that will present current, ongoing research through local newscasts on ABC and NBC stations nationwide. In addition to the regular...
DATES: August 1st, 2002 - July 31st, 2007
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In this article, Jacksonville State University's Stephen Bitgood responds to seven commonly-held beliefs about visitors. Bitgood cites recent research findings to explain visitor behavior in museums/zoos....
DATE: January 1st, 1991
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This document, released in September 2013, grew out of a Joint Committee of the U.S. Department of Education (ED) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) that was convened to establish...
DATE: September 16th, 2013
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This is a webinar presentation of the Common Guidelines for Education Research and Development, developed by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Education. The presentation outlines the...
DATE: October 13th, 2013
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In this article, Jacksonville State University's Stephen Bitgood responds to nine commonly misconceptions about evaluation. Bitgood cites recent research findings related to visitor evaluation theories and approaches in museums/zoos....
DATE: January 1st, 1991
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In this article, Serena Furman, Principal of A Space Design, provides a guide for improving RFP bidding. Furman outlines the steps needed to prepare the RFP and RFP Response. Included...
DATE: January 1st, 2007
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The Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC), in collaboration with the Yale Project on Climate Change and the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, is conducting a three-year project whose goal is to...
DATES: September 15th, 2008 - August 31st, 2012
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Communicating Climate Change (C3) is a National Science Foundation (NSF) funded project to foster innovative partnerships between research centers, the media, and science centers. David Heil & Associates, Inc. (DHA)...
DATE: October 1st, 2009
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In December 2008, the Monterey Bay Aquarium, in partnership with the New England Aquarium and the National Aquarium in Baltimore, hosted a summit of leaders from aquariums across North America...
DATE: August 6th, 2013
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The Climate Interpretation Coalition is maturing beyond a set of discrete institutions to become a collective voice for communicating climate change and the ocean. As the three‐year funded NOAA program...
DATE: August 6th, 2013
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Presentation on NSF grant DRL-0813135 (""Communicating Climate Change (C3)"") presented at the CAISE Convening on Sustainability Science and Informal Science Education, February 6th, 2012....
DATE: February 6th, 2012
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Presentation on NSF grant DRL-0917614 (""Communicating Ocean Sciences Informal Education Network: Scientists Working Together to Promote Ocean Literacy"") presented at the CAISE Convening on Organizational Networks, November 17th, 2011....
DATE: November 17th, 2011
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Communicating Ocean Sciences to Informal Audiences (COSIA) is an innovative project that creates unique partnerships between informal science education institutions and local colleges conducting research in ocean sciences, with an...
DATES: March 1st, 2006 - February 28th, 2010
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The following three case studies are descriptive and evaluative in nature, and are designed to describe, explain, and portray in some detail three examples of COSIA partnerships. These cases are...
DATE: June 1st, 2010
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True to the design we formulated in our proposal, the Inverness Research evaluation studied the COSIA project on two levels: Partnerships and Contributions. The logic underlying these two layers of...
DATE: May 27th, 2010
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This two-year project is communicating the results of scientific discoveries produced by an on-going LTER (Long-term Ecological Research) project devoted to understanding the Everglades ecosystem. Specifically, Dr. Heithaus is capitalizing...
DATES: July 1st, 2010 - June 30th, 2013
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The Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary requests $58,414 from the Informal Science Education Program of the National Science Foundation to infuse an environmental education message with innovative approaches to visitor self-instruction,...
DATES: June 1st, 1994 - November 30th, 1996
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August, 2009 Communities of Effective Practice, 2008-2009 Evaluation Abstract: The Communities of Effective Practice (CEP) project is a National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded project to develop a professional development model for...
DATE: August 1st, 2009
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This pilot project establishes and implements a professional development model with teachers of Native American students by creating a culturally relevant science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) teacher in-service model...
DATES: May 1st, 2006 - July 31st, 2010
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In the Communities of Learning for Urban Environments and Science (CLUES) project, the four museums of the Philadelphia-Camden Informal Science Education Collaborative worked to build informal science education (ISE) capacity...
DATES: September 15th, 2009 - August 31st, 2015
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The term ""community of practice"" is of relatively recent coinage, even though the phenomenon it refers to is age-old. The concept has turned out to provide a useful perspective on...
DATE: June 1st, 2009
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The idea that learning involves a deepening process of participation in a community of practice has gained significant ground in recent years. Communities of practice have also become an important...
DATE: May 8th, 2009
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As organizations grow in size, geographical scope, and complexity, it is increasingly apparent that sponsorship and support of communities of practice—groups whose members regularly engage in sharing and learning, based...
DATE: April 6th, 2010
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This essay argues that the success of organizations depends on their ability to design themselves as social learning systems and also to participate in broader learning systems such as an...
DATE: May 1st, 2000
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Community Ambassadors in Science Exploration (CASE) is a new model for encouraging the appreciation and understanding of science among underserved families through: a corps of teen and adult peer presenters;...
DATES: March 1st, 2004 - August 31st, 2011
