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Many ISE educators design opportunities for children to collaborate in learning activities. This study's findings show that, when collaborations are designed to let children take responsibility for each other's understanding,...
DATE: August 1st, 2011
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Students with special educational needs score significantly below their peers across several measures of science achievement. However, educational approaches that provide appropriate scaffolding and support, such as the inquiry-based science...
DATE: January 1st, 2013
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In this study, the authors describe a conceptual framework addressing culturally based ways of knowing, and provide a brief description of their efforts to design a community-based summer science program...
DATE: August 1st, 2011
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This paper describes a study designed to investigate whether fiction can help students to develop their opinions on socio-scientific issues. The findings suggest that fictional accounts can be effective, but...
DATE: August 1st, 2011
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The past 50 years have seen a change in how science is perceived, from an “unproblematic accumulation of facts that describe the world” to a much messier enterprise involving building...
DATE: January 1st, 2013
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Researchers found that students developed greater levels of what they call scientific abilities when provided opportunities to design, refine, and reflect on science experiments during a laboratory course, as compared...
DATE: August 1st, 2011
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This paper reports on changes in teacher attitudes toward visually impaired students following a yearlong programme that provided funds for adaptive resources, supplies, and equipment. The context framing this study...
DATE: January 1st, 2013
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This paper focuses on the ways students can construct scientific explanations and arguments as part of scientific inquiry. Berland and Reiser synthesize understandings from philosophy, science, and logic in order...
DATE: January 1st, 2013
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This article reports on a study that reveals some of the complexities of supporting children's understandings of scientific argumentation. The paper could be useful for ISE educators seeking to incorporate...
DATE: August 1st, 2011
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In this article, a Framework for Museum Practice (FMP) is proposed as a challenge to ineffective methods used during school field trips in an attempt to educate youth. It is...
DATE: May 1st, 2007
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Given the role played by the informal sector in training and supporting educators and science learners within the formal sector, how might the informal sector respond to the NGSS? We...
DATE: August 11th, 2014
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While much of the current concern over the literacy development of low- and moderate income children focuses on schools (and, to a lesser degree, on parents), many observers are arguing...
DATE: October 1st, 2003
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Concept cartoons, with characters expressing both scientific viewpoints and common misconceptions, provide a ready stimulus for discussion. In debating the ideas, students articulate their thoughts, challenge each other, propose claims...
DATE: August 1st, 2011
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A survey of out-of-school time administrators and staff shows that professional development can influence providers' willingness and ability to include children with special needs in their programs....
DATE: October 1st, 2012
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Based on the National Research Council study, Learning Science in Informal Environments: People, Places, and Pursuits, this book is a tool that provides case studies, illustrative examples, and probing questions...
DATE: March 3rd, 2010
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The Association of Science-Technology Centers, representing some 170 science museums, receives regular requests for information on the status of science museums, their education programs, exhibits and other activities. To respond...
DATES: April 1st, 1986 - September 30th, 1989
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Despite decades of research on the importance of engagement and interaction in learning experiences, programs produced for planetarium audiences are primarily passive in nature. Planetarium professionals were interviewed with regard...
DATE: August 1st, 2010
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This handout from the 2008 ISE PI Summit introduces participants to different evaluation methods and goals....
DATE: July 26th, 2008
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The University of Pennsylvania Museum received a grant from the National Science Foundation to develop, install, and evaluate an exhibition on human evolution. The exhibition, entitled Surviving: The Body of...
DATE: December 1st, 2008
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The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology will work over three years to design, develop and fabricate "Survivor, the Place of Humans in the Natural World," a 3,000...
DATES: January 1st, 2004 - July 31st, 2008
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In this article, Jonathan Katz, CEO of Cinnabar, Inc., describes the development of the California Academy of Science's new Kimball Museum of Natural History and the challenge of integrating the...
DATE: January 1st, 2010
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Presentation on Sustainability at the National Academies presented at the CAISE Convening on Sustainability Science and Informal Science Education, February 6th, 2012....
DATE: February 6th, 2012
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Meeting Agenda for the CAISE Convening on Sustainability Science and Informal Science Education, February 6th and 7th, 2012...
DATE: February 6th, 2012
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Meeting Agenda for the CAISE Convening on Sustainability Science and Informal Science Education, February 6th and 7th, 2012...
DATE: February 6th, 2012
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Meeting Overview for the CAISE Convening on Sustainability Science and Informal Science Education, February 6th and 7th, 2012...
DATE: February 6th, 2012
