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This is a planning grant to Timothy Ferris to develop a PBS documentary film about amateur astronomy and stargazing. The film will bring viewers into direct contact with the night...
DATES: February 1st, 2001 - July 31st, 2002
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Overall, film viewers and Web site visitors responded positively to the project. Audiences of the film said they were encouraged by and learned the most about the personal stories of...
DATE: March 17th, 2008
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This evaluation describes the results of three individual exhibits that were a part of the project "Seeing: The Interaction of Physiology, Culture, and Technology" at the Exploratorium. This document contains...
DATE: January 1st, 2003
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The Seeing Team wished to determine visitors what visitors understood from interacting with the Seeing section of the museum, before the section was to be renovated. In particular, they wanted...
DATE: March 1st, 2001
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This evaluation provides feedback from a tracking and timing study from the project "Seeing: The Interaction of Physiology, Culture, and Technology" at the Exploratorium. The evaluation concludes that Seeing is...
DATE: January 1st, 2003
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The Exploratorium will develop a 6000 sq. f.t exhibit Seeing: The Interaction of Physiology, Culture, and Technology . As the first exhibit and program development project of their multiyear initiative...
DATES: July 1st, 1998 - January 31st, 2003
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This is a bibliography of literature related to exhibit design and evaluation in zoos....
DATE: January 1st, 1987
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This is a bibliography of literature related to exhibit design and evaluation in museums....
DATE: January 1st, 1987
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In this bibliography, Jacksonville State University's Stephen Bitgood presents a list of six studies on how people perceive visitor facilities....
DATE: January 1st, 1990
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Self-assessment can be a powerful tool for evaluating program quality, yet the available self-assessment instruments do not comprehensively address practices that promote academic enrichment....
DATE: March 1st, 2011
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Successful online students must learn and maintain motivation to learn. The Self-regulation of Motivation (SRM) model (Sansone and Thoman ) suggests two kinds of motivation are essential: Goals-defined (i.e., value...
DATE: April 1st, 2011
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This chapter draws attention to the self-regulatory skills that students use in informal learning settings. Formal and informal learning settings are defined as complementary learning environments and it is pointed...
DATE: January 1st, 1999
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The National Center for Science and Civic Engagement (NCSCE) contracted Randi Korn & Associates, Inc. (RK&A) to evaluate its SENCER-ISE conference funded by the National Science Foundation and the Noyce...
DATE: August 1st, 2011
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Poster on NSF grant DRL-1001795 (""SENCER-ISE"") from the 2012 ISE PI Meeting....
DATE: March 15th, 2012
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This conference proposal, organized by the National Center for Science and Civic Engagement, is convening professionals both in higher education and in informal science education, all of whom have done...
DATES: August 1st, 2010 - July 31st, 2012
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Gateway National Recreation Area (Gateway), a unit of the National Park Service, and Brooklyn College are creating a citizen science field observation program called "Sentinels of Shoreline Change."The project will...
DATES: May 15th, 2013 - May 15th, 2013
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The Ramapo College of New Jersey requests funding to develop the "Senior Environmental Experiences (SEE)" project. The project will produce a series of interactive science experiences using Internet videoconferencing to...
DATES: June 1st, 2004 - May 31st, 2009
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To better understand how audiences in public spaces, in this case those in a museum setting, relate to and make sense of the phrases “Big Data” and “Data Visualizations”, this...
DATE: October 20th, 2014
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To better help museum visitors make sense of large data sets, also called “Big Data”, this study focused on the types of visual representations visitors recognize, and how they make...
DATE: November 16th, 2013
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The premise underpinning this study is that a learner’s ability to describe and engage conceptually with scientific phenomena is dependent upon his or her ability to understand and use scientific...
DATE: August 1st, 2011
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The authors of this paper use Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) as a conceptual framework for understanding how technology is tied to culturally specific human practices, and what this means in...
DATE: August 1st, 2011
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This paper reviews a wide range of literature applicable to understanding why and how hobbyists learn. Of particular importance appear to be theories such as situated learning and communities of...
DATE: August 1st, 2013
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The Educational Film Center (EFC) is developing a science, engineering, and technology careers exhibit for distribution to science museums and technology centers. The core of the exhibit kiosk, with related...
DATES: April 1st, 1994 - September 30th, 1997
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This proposal requests matching support to create a dynamic science, engineering, and technology careers museum exhibit--SET Careers, for distribution to science museums and technology centers. The exhibit kiosks with related...
DATES: March 15th, 1993 - August 31st, 1994
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The Educational Film Center will complete production of a science, engineering, and technology careers exhibit and informal science education project for use in science museums, libraries, schools, and community locations....
DATES: August 15th, 1995 - July 31st, 1998
