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This is a Science Learning+ planning project that will develop a research plan for investigating how applying the principles of embodied cognition to the design of informal learning environments can...
DATES: December 1st, 2014 - November 30th, 2015
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Existing (and essentially school-based) approaches to assessment involve recording the extent to which learners gain particular knowledge or skills. In informal settings, outcomes depend on the participant’s own agenda. Michalchik...
DATE: January 1st, 2014
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In this paper, Pekarik challenges the conventional approaches that institutions use to monitor success. He argues that outcome-based evaluations simply record impact in a set of predetermined categories and do...
DATE: August 1st, 2011
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Afterschool Matters talked with Sylvia Lyles, Ph.D., program director of the Academic Improvement Programs Group in the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education at the U.S. Department of Education in...
DATE: March 1st, 2010
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This Communicating Research to Public Audiences (NSF 03-509) project in partnership with the American Museum of Natural History will produce a 7-minute High Definition video documentary feature story, Moving Mountains,...
DATES: December 15th, 2007 - November 30th, 2008
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For document visualization, folding techniques provide a focus-plus-context approach with fairly high legibility on flat sections. To enable richer interaction, we explore the design space of multi-touch document folding. We...
DATE: January 1st, 2011
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For the past twenty years there has been a slow trickle of research disseminated through a variety of channels on the natureand use of computer interactives within museum and gallery...
DATE: January 1st, 2011
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This paper discusses efforts at the New England Aquarium to attract multicultural audiences, with projects like the Lake Victoria exhibit. This NSF-funded, collaborative project, centered on Lake Victoria in East...
DATE: September 1st, 1998
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In this article, Jacksonville State University's Stephen Bitgood and Don Thompson address the issue of how museums can appeal to multicultural audiences and assess the impact of their attempts to...
DATE: May 1st, 1993
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This article summarizes methodology and key findings from research to determine the effectiveness of several aspects of the Old Woman Creek National Estuarine Research Reserve on Lake Erie visitor center...
DATE: January 1st, 1987
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In this paper, I address some of the unique challenges of studies of learning in museums through a microanalytic case study of meaning-making among a group of youth and a...
DATE: January 1st, 2004
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The purpose of this study was to describe and understand the range of outcomes of class visits to natural history museums. The theoretical framework is based on the multifaceted process...
DATE: June 1st, 2008
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The researcher of this study presents definitive arguments for the need to move beyond a “school-centric” approach to studying how people learn. Citing ecological perspectives on learning, this paper claims...
DATE: August 1st, 2011
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When children encounter museum exhibits, they find rich opportunities for action, perception, learning, and other forms of cognition. Can we see systematic organization in the children’s behavior, and by extension,...
DATE: January 1st, 2011
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The Self Reliance Foundation, the fiscal agent for the Hispanic Radio Network, is producing a weekly, live, one-hour Spanish radio talk show. The show would introduce audiences to current breakthroughs...
DATES: April 1st, 1999 - September 30th, 2002
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This is a summary of studies from "The Behavior of the Museum Visitor" (1928) by Edward S. Robinson, who studied the problem of museum "fatigue." Robinson suggested that this "fatigue"...
DATE: January 1st, 1988
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The Mississippi Museum of Natural Science (MMNS) will develop a program over the next two years aimed at teachers and students in grades 3-7. The project will develop teacher kits...
DATES: March 1st, 1986 - August 31st, 1988
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The Mississippi Museum of Natural Science proposes to build on its program of activities that involve children in science and bring them into contact with the approaches, objects and equipment...
DATES: November 1st, 1988 - April 30th, 1991
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In this paper, Paulette M. McManus, museum and heritage consultant, outlines the history of visitor studies from the beginning in 1890 through today. McManus also examines some "unhelpful" notions professionals...
DATE: January 1st, 1996
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In this article, Daniel Spock, Director of the Minnesota History Center Museum, explores the effects of public participation in museums. Spock acknowledges the challenges associated with increased public participation, but...
DATE: July 1st, 2009
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The American Association of Museums will conduct during 1989 and 1990 a comprehensive survey and data collection program on the status of American museums, establishing a baseline of data that...
DATES: June 15th, 1990 - November 30th, 1992
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Six museum education and learning researchers discuss the need to study how people learn and behave in museums and what kind of current research studies should be undertaken. Mary Ellen...
DATE: December 1st, 1986
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Museum educators rarely experience ongoing training. They tend to rely on their past experiences of teaching and learning to guide their interactions with learners. Allen and Crowley describe the implementation...
DATE: January 1st, 2014
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In this article, I invite readers to think outside of evaluation’s current boundaries and to see the deep connectedness between what museums hope to achieve and how we evaluate the...
DATE: January 1st, 2011
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This article deals with a pioneering project currently being developed, namely, the Exhibition on Testing and Measurement. This interactive traveling exhibition will be presented in science museums in Israel, the...
DATE: May 1st, 2012
