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The Bronx Zoo of the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) engaged Randi Korn & Associates, Inc. to conduct formative evaluation and community focus groups related to a proposed exhibit, "Safari Adventure."...
DATE: August 1st, 2014
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The United States Botanic Garden (USBG) contracted RK&A to explore visitorsâ interest in and understanding of proposed âContext Clues.â A Context Clue is an interpretive strategy that uses images, product...
DATE: January 16th, 2015
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The Science Museum of Virginia (SMV) contracted with Randi Korn & Associates, Inc. (RK&A) to evaluate Sphere Corps, a Science on a Sphere program about climate change developed by SMV...
DATE: July 1st, 2012
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The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHM) contracted Randi Korn & Associates, Inc. (RK&A) to conduct a formative evaluation of two prototypes Mexican Era section and Model Table...
DATE: March 1st, 2012
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The UMass Donahue Institute (UMDI) was contracted to provide formative evaluation services for WGBHâs PEEP and the Big Wide World project development of curriculum units and instructional modules for use...
DATE: August 29th, 2014
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In this article, Andrea Douglas, Curator of Collections and Exhibitions at the University of Virginia Art Museum (UVMA), discusses UVMA's "Forming American Identities: Our Southern Legacy" project. This umbrella project...
DATE: July 1st, 2008
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In this article, Steven Lubar, professor of American civilization and director of the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage at Brown University, describes the final project--producing...
DATE: July 1st, 2009
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This study investigated visitors' and staff's perceptions about the communication of science in a traditional natural history museum. The research examined the science-related outcomes for adult visitors and explored visitors'...
DATE: December 1st, 2006
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The San Diego Society of Natural History (SDSNH) will design, fabricate and install a 9,000 square foot permanent exhibition exploring the fundamental scientific concepts of paleontology, geology, biology and ecology...
DATES: August 15th, 2002 - July 31st, 2006
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An agenda on cyberlearning programs and projects funded by the National Science Foundation....
DATE: June 24th, 2008
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In this article, Jeff Hayward of People, Places & Design Research discusses four common misconceptions about visitor research and evaluation. This article is adapted from an article published in "Children's...
DATE: January 1st, 1991
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The evolution of language, perhaps two hundred thousand years ago, led to our ability to think abstractly, invent logic, store and exchange ideas and to create culture. What language is,...
DATES: October 1st, 1987 - June 30th, 1994
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This paper discusses four years of visitor evaluation the Anniston Museum of Natural History. It includes an overview of the evaluation program including the collaboration between the museum and the...
DATE: January 1st, 1990
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The 4-H organization of Virginia is developing a Marine and Aquatic Education Program with a strong field study component for youngsters ages five through nine. They plan to reach these...
DATES: January 15th, 1987 - June 30th, 1990
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The March 12-13, 2007 workshop at NSF on informal science education evaluation brought together a distinguished group of experts to discuss how impact categories might be best applied to various...
DATE: March 12th, 2008
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The Field Museum of Natural History proposes to design and construct an Animal Resource Center of 24,000 square feet in the context of its encompassing larger exhibit, "Diversity and Survival...
DATES: September 1st, 1989 - May 31st, 1992
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Science Learning, Inc. will plan and carryout a two day conference that will bring together researchers, practitioners and policy makers in an effort to seek to better understand the workings...
DATES: April 15th, 1998 - March 31st, 2000
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Free-choice learning and, derivatively, free-choice environmental learning emerges as a powerful vehicle for supporting diversity in learning styles (Falk & Dierking, 2002). In this article, I argue that free-choice environmental...
DATE: July 1st, 2005
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Most environmental learning takes place outside of the formal education system, but our understanding of how this learning actually occurs is in its infancy. By surfing the internet, watching nature...
DATE: May 24th, 2009
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This seminal book describes the nature and extent of science learning in America with particular attention to the innumerable sources of science education existing outside the formal education system....
DATE: May 30th, 2001
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The museum visit is an important part of elementary school science teaching. However, a divide exists between teachers, who require curricular accountability, and museums, who emphasize free-choice exploration. Can a...
DATE: February 4th, 2007
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Education is a lifelong endeavor; the public learns in many places and contexts, for a diversity of reasons, throughout their lives. During the past couple of decades, there has been...
DATE: May 24th, 2005
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Freedom Machines is a one-hour special for public television which will highlight the information about the newest technological advances which support over 54 million Americans with disabilities. Through personal narratives,...
DATES: September 10th, 2001 - August 31st, 2004
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The North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences requests $544,390 for the design and implementation of Freshwater Westlands: Habitats of Beauty and Function. This project consists of two main components:...
DATES: October 1st, 1992 - July 31st, 1996
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A citizen science project designed to monitor the distribution and abundance of bird species throughout the Fresno-Clovis Metro Area in the Central Valley of California....
DATES: January 1st, 2010 - January 1st, 2010
