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This guiding question for this evaluation conducted by ILI was to measure the long term impact of the NYHS SCL program on its participants. The SCL participants also known as...
DATE: May 1st, 2002
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Temple University's Center for Reimagining Children's Learning and Education, the University of Delaware, and Johns Hopkins University are collaborating with the Children's Museum of Manhattan and several other children's museums,...
DATES: August 1st, 2010 - July 31st, 2011
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This article summarizes the various factors that can impede or compete with learning from exhibit labels. These impediments include novelty of surroundings, object satiation, competing sights and sounds, lack of...
DATE: November 1st, 1996
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As part of a National Science Foundation grant for Season 8 of Cyberchase, Thirteen/WNET produced Summer Challenge broadcasts with accompanying online and offline activities to be posted weekly for eight...
DATE: October 20th, 2010
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) has funded a number of informal STEM programs that provide funding for media producers, including public television (TV) stations, to provide children’s STEM programming in...
DATE: March 1st, 2013
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The goal of this Planning Grant is to use program theory as a tool in two informal science education communities and compare the processes and models that result. Program theory...
DATES: December 10th, 2002 - November 30th, 2003
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In this paper, John K. Haeseler of Economics Research Associates discusses how the total length of time a visitor spends at a cultural attraction such as a museum or zoo...
DATE: January 1st, 1990
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In this article, Ohio State University researchers discuss the Importance-Performance analysis tool and its application in non-profit leisure settings such as a park....
DATE: January 1st, 1987
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The Metcalf Institute for Marine & Environmental Reporting at the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography is implementing a three-stage sequence of workshops that will bring together science...
DATES: August 15th, 2010 - July 31st, 2011
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This article discusses one of many studies conducted at Colonial Williamsburg for the purpose of strengthening the learning experience for families. The study was conducted in 1993-1996 and continues to...
DATE: September 1st, 2001
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The New York Hall of Science will develop a major exhibition on quantum theory--one of the most important developments in physical science in this century and one which has not...
DATES: April 1st, 1986 - March 31st, 1990
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This planning grant addresses the issue of students losing interest in STEM during the ages of 8-12 years. The PIs propose that STEM content provided through electronic media will be...
DATES: July 15th, 2010 - June 30th, 2012
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This article describes the "In Addition" afterschool mathematics program and the pressures it faced due to standardized testing and homework. In addition aims to go beyond worksheets and drills to...
DATE: March 1st, 2004
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In this article, four panelists examine changes in exhibit design, identify the trends and currents that are feeding these changes, encourage more nuanced understanding of these implications, and evaluate the...
DATE: July 1st, 2005
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In recent years, afterschool programs have come to be envisioned as sites for addressing the failure of urban schools to provide adolescents with the requisite skills and knowledge to participate...
DATE: March 1st, 2005
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In this article, Carlos Plaza, exhibit developer and bilingual communications specialist at the Miami Science Museum, summarizes the museum's general guidelines and strategies for writing and designing bilingual exhibitions. These...
DATE: July 30th, 2009
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This article is a response to Harris Shettel's commentary which appeared in Curator (48/2, April 2005) on two of four articles which appeared in Curator (47/2), the subject of which...
DATE: October 1st, 2005
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The science museum field has made tremendous advances in understanding museum learning, but little has been done to consolidate and synthesize these findings to encourage widespread improvements in practice. By...
DATE: July 1st, 2005
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The science museum field has made tremendous advances in understanding museum learning, but little has been done to consolidate and synethesize these findings to encourage widespread improvements in practice. By...
DATE: May 24th, 2007
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The Institute for Learning Innovation (ILI) requests support to conduct the second conference on museum learning, "In Principle, In Practice," following their successful NSF-funded conference of a decade ago entitled...
DATES: October 1st, 2003 - September 30th, 2006
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The California Academy of Sciences will develop, evaluate and disseminate exhibits and programs designed to communicate to public audiences the results of research including a biotic inventory of the amphibians...
DATES: July 15th, 2004 - June 30th, 2008
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This article from Daedalus explores the question (framed by an American Association of Museums AAM publication) of how museums can help to nurture an informed citizenry and address the challenges...
DATE: May 1st, 1999
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In this article, Linda Ferguson, Audience Advocate and Evaluator at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra, discusses how the Memorial represents "the enemy" in its galleries in a way that...
DATE: September 1st, 1997
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This article discusses notion of "bimodal" visitation patterns by museum visitors, in which people are either interested or not in the material presented. The authors argue that this no-time, lots-of-time...
DATE: May 1st, 2001
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In this article, Gillian McIntyre, Adult Program Coordinator at the Art Gallery of Ontario, analyzes the successes and challenges of the Gallery's "In Your Face: the people's portrait project" exhibit....
DATE: July 1st, 2009
