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This article characterizes the relationship between the museum and its visitors as a dialogic process that enables a play between the public narratives of the museum and the private narratives...
DATE: March 1st, 2001
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Situating community-based afterschool programs on school grounds has its risks, but there can be significant rewards as well....
DATE: March 1st, 2004
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This research project is a follow-up to previous research on the persistence of high ability minority youth in college programs for mathematics, science, engineering, premedicine and predentistry. The earlier research...
DATES: December 1st, 1989 - January 31st, 1992
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This article discusses a study that investigated whether visitor or visit variables were the best predictors of satisfaction, and whether the predictive power of these variables would differ in different...
DATE: January 1st, 2002
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The authors explored the perceived effects of an environmental expressive writing exercise by using a modified phenomenological method. The authors asked preservice teachers enrolled in a required public university science...
DATE: March 1st, 2005
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Research on cultural cognition suggests that members of the public process science-related information by assessing its coherence with values and commitments that connect them to important affinity groups. This suggests...
DATE: June 4th, 2013
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This Partnerships for Innovation: Building Innovation Capacity (PFI:BIC) project from the University of New Hampshire focuses on a "living bridge", which exemplifies the future of smart, sustainable, user-centered transportation infrastructure....
DATES: August 15th, 2014 - July 31st, 2017
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The Family Science Learning Project is comprised of a research study and subsequent program development designed to fundamentally improve family science learning in museums. The endeavor will be carried out...
DATES: July 1st, 1994 - December 31st, 1998
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The University of Pennsylvania's Out of School Time Resource Center is requesting a planning grant to conduct a symposium that will be used to develop a unique professional development model...
DATES: September 15th, 2005 - August 31st, 2006
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The article discusses a study conducted by the University of Waterloo, reported by researcher Daniela O'Neill, regarding the acquisition of knowledge by children concerning animals when a picture book is...
DATE: May 1st, 2014
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This report is the executive summary to the PIE Institute Final Evaluation Report....
DATE: October 1st, 2008
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The planning project will design pilot educational exhibits for an informal education center, the "World Learning Center," located in the Presidio National Park at San Francisco. The exhibits will be...
DATES: September 1st, 2001 - June 30th, 2003
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This article discusses an evaluation study led by a design team for the new Technology Museum of Thessaloniki in Greece. They investigated the wishes, interests, preferences and needs of certain...
DATE: May 1st, 2001
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Pipeline for Remote Sensing Education and Application (PRSEA), will increase awareness, knowledge and understanding of remote sensing technologies and associated disciplines, and their relevance to NASA, through a combination of...
DATES: February 1st, 2014 - January 31st, 2019
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Presentation on NSF grant DRL-0840230 (""Communities of Learning for Urban Environments"") presented at the CAISE Convening on Organizational Networks, November 17th, 2011....
DATE: November 17th, 2011
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The ethnography presented by van Eijck and Roth focuses on the activities of people involved in a government funded internship program in conservation and restoration, which was offered by a...
DATE: December 1st, 2010
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Through a critical ethnography, Birmingham and Calabrese Barton examined why and how a group of six middle school girls took civic action, defined as “educated action in science,” after studying...
DATE: January 1st, 2014
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Building on their successful traveling exhibition and Web site, "Invention at Play," funded by the NSF Informal Science Education Program, the Smithsonian's Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and...
DATES: September 15th, 2010 - August 31st, 2014
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The Planet Earth Decision Theater (PEDT), funded by NOAA (grant # NA10SEC0080021), will be a major component of the Future Earth exhibition, which opens at the Science Museum of Minnesota...
DATE: September 1st, 2011
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Planet Earth Decision Theater (PEDT) is a NOAA-funded project for Science on a Sphere (SOS) about the impact that humans have on the planet (grant #NA10SEC0080021). Survey data for this...
DATE: January 1st, 2012
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Over the last decade, hundreds of planetariums worldwide have adopted digital “fulldome” projection as their primary projection and presentation medium. This trend has far-reaching potential for science centers. Digital planetarium...
DATE: July 1st, 2011
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The participation in a single planetarium program that incorporated kinesthetic learning techniques improved students’ understanding of celestial motion. Even though this study is focused on astronomy and planetariums, it is...
DATE: August 1st, 2011
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This planning grant seeks funding for demonstrating proof of concept for the proposed traveling exhibition "Inside Phoebe's Field." It is an outgrowth of the prior NSF project (9979287) that resulted...
DATES: January 1st, 2005 - June 30th, 2006
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Young people's participation in informal STEM learning activities can contribute to their academic and career achievements, but these connections are infrequently explicitly recognized or cultivated. More systemic approaches to STEM...
DATES: December 1st, 2014 - November 30th, 2015
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Washington State University, the University of Puget Sound, the University of Washington, a consortium of three museums, and a state-wide charter school system that assists home-school teachers in the Northwest...
DATES: September 1st, 2009 - February 29th, 2012
