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In teacher-student interactions during pre-visit, in-museum, and postāfield trip interactions, open-ended styles of questions tended to happen more often during the in-museum part of the field trip, although closed-ended questions...
DATE: August 1st, 2011
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Field trips are a popular method for introducing students to concepts, ideas, and experiences that cannot be provided in a classroom environment. This is particularly true for trans-disciplinary areas of...
DATE: January 1st, 2006
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Six studies on school field trip learning are reviewed. Among the findings reported are those indicating that students' perceptions of the novelty of the trip affects what they learn, and...
DATE: May 24th, 1983
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These are the slides from the "Field Driven Agendas for Research and Practice" lunch panel at the 2014 AISL PI Meeting in Washington, DC....
DATE: August 22nd, 2014
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The North Alabama Science Center (NASC) will develop an interactive virtual learning experience in atmospheric science that combines a 3-D large-screen format presentation with interactive program activities. The project will...
DATES: August 15th, 2006 - January 31st, 2009
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The MyBEST (Mentoring Youth Building Employable Skills in Technology) project, funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation's Informal Science Education program, concluded its three years of operation in...
DATE: December 1st, 2006
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Summary of Findings Summative Evaluation Cielo y Tierra Noticias del Mundo Robert L. Russell, Ph.D. Learning Experience Design October 2011 Learning Experience Design conducted summative evaluation of the project entitled:...
DATE: October 1st, 2011
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This report summarizes the evaluation results from the NSF funded Eight-Legged Encounters family event that uses arachnids as a hook to draw public interests towards science. The event involves informative...
DATE: October 31st, 2014
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How can research on teaching and learning be used to improve the design of e-content? The contents of this report are based on a series of seminars conducted during 2003...
DATE: January 1st, 2005
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Funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF),The STEM Pathways project focused on exploring strategies through which at-risk and incarcerated Hispanic youth could be engaged around STEM careers, understand the education,...
DATE: December 15th, 2013
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Presented at the 2008 ISE PI Summit, this presentation workshop from the Grant Management Office at NSF introduced participants to best practices and strategies for their NSF grant management practices....
DATE: July 26th, 2008
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Presentation of a summary of the Finding FOCIS project, including research results and conceptual framework. This presentation was given at the Virginia Science Coordinators Meeting in May 2014. These slides...
DATE: July 1st, 2014
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Despite the many hours students spend studying science, only a few relate to these subjects in such a manner that it becomes a part of their essential worldview and advances...
DATE: January 1st, 2004
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This Communicating Research to Public Audiences proposal is based on current NSF-funded research, AST 0607505, "Asteroid Satellites and Spins." Finding NEO (near-Earth Objects) proposes an 18-month-long project to develop on-line...
DATES: October 1st, 2007 - March 31st, 2011
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Museum education is a field of practice that is guided effectively by traditions of practice addressing museums' purposes and expected audiences, and rarely explicitly refers to the numerous models of...
DATE: January 1st, 2006
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The Exploratorium will conduct a controlled, two-year research project, titled "Finding Significance," to study how different exhibit presentation techniques affect visitors' abilities to make meaning -- or find significance --...
DATES: September 10th, 2000 - August 31st, 2004
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Museum of Science will develop a 4500 sq. ft. exhibit "Finding the Pattern". The primary objective is to develop activities and programs that encourage visitors to practice scientific thinking skills...
DATES: September 1st, 1997 - December 31st, 2002
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Traditionally, collaborative technologies are intended to directly support joint, collaborative activity, taking their cues from communication and media. Here, empirical findings are presented about the types of information needs associated...
DATE: January 1st, 2002
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This article discusses the methodology, key findings, and implications of a 1998-1999 evaluation conducted by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum of its educational programming for school groups. The evaluation examined...
DATE: May 1st, 2000
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Many tasks in graphical user interfaces require users to interact with elements at various levels of precision. We present FingerGlass, a bimanual technique designed to improve the precision of graphical...
DATE: May 7th, 2011
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How do we know the distance to a star? How do we know what a star is made of? How do we know how fast an object is moving? These...
DATES: August 1st, 1996 - August 31st, 2002
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WGBH is shooting some test footage for a science series on fire. This Small Grant for Exploratory Research will enable the producers to film a major controlled burn, called Frostfire,...
DATES: June 1st, 1999 - November 30th, 1999
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WGBH Educational Foundation is producing a four-hour documentary special, "Fire," to be broadcast as a NOVA special. The series will present the story of fire as an important but often...
DATES: January 1st, 2000 - April 30th, 2003
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The Firefly Watch project is a citizen science program where a network of volunteers across the country observe and collect data on fireflies. Participants are able to post their results...
DATE: January 1st, 2012
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This is a program schedule for the First Annual Visitor Studies Meeting in Oxford, Alabama, April 6-8, 1988....
DATE: January 1st, 1988
