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The Learning Places evaluation went beyond the traditional approach of determining how well the project met its goals. In addition to that approach, we identified grounded theory. Five areas of...
DATE: March 1st, 2010
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This report describes how the YOUmedia program at the Harold Washington Library Center in Chicago attempts to take advantage of networked and digital media to provide engaging learning opportunities for...
DATE: May 1st, 2013
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This CRPA project seeks to inform Tennessee residents about STEM research that is occurring at Vanderbilt University and the scientists that are undertaking this exciting work. Tennessee Explorers is a...
DATES: September 15th, 2011 - August 31st, 2013
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This consent form was used as part of a TERC project that focused on developing and evaluating math materials in libraries. It uses simple and readable text....
DATE: March 1st, 2010
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The evaluation was guided by four major questions: 1) How has math education changed at the afterschool programs sites over the course of the project? 2) Have children's experiences of...
DATE: January 1st, 2008
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In Terrascope Youth Radio, urban teens develop, report, write, produce and host radio programming on environmental topics. Their work is broadcast and distributed nationally and online through partnerships with the...
DATES: August 15th, 2007 - July 31st, 2013
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In MIT’s NSF-funded Terrascope Youth Radio (TYR) program, urban youth, many from groups historically underrepresented in the sciences, worked as paid interns who received training in radio production, reporting and...
DATE: October 31st, 2012
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Presentation on NSF grant DRL-0917564 (""Terrascope Youth Radio"") presented at the CAISE Convening on Professional Development and Informal Science Education, February 2nd, 2012....
DATE: February 2nd, 2012
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Assesses science-related attitudes along seven dimensions: social implications of science, normality of scientists, attitude toward scientific inquiry, adoption of scientific attitudes, enjoyment of science lessons, leisure interest in science, &...
DATE: November 7th, 2008
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The purpose of this study was to investigate a museum exhibition design assumption that visitors develop conceptual understanding of a science topic after utilizing a cluster of conceptually related exhibits...
DATE: November 1st, 1997
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This is a summary of Roger Miles's 1986 article, "Lessons in 'Human Biology' - Testing a Theory of Exhibition Design," featured in "The International Journal of Museum Management and Curatorship."...
DATE: May 1st, 1987
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RK&A was contracted by Save Ellis Island (SEI) to conduct a front end evaluation, funded by a National Endowment for the Humanities planning grant. The objective for the evaluation was...
DATE: October 1st, 2007
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There is a recognized need to rigorously examine the efficacy of approaches to supporting informal learning. In this study, we used a 2 Ă— 2 factorial experimental design to test...
DATE: October 1st, 2012
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Boston Museum of Science seeks funds from the National Science Foundation for the development of a group of interactive exhibits and educational programs that will comprise the Museum's permanent TESTING...
DATES: September 15th, 1993 - August 31st, 1999
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The Ft. Worth Museum of Science and History will develop "Texas Dinosaurs: How Do We Know? -- Regional Dissemination of Science Inquiry Exhibits and Educational Programs on Paleontology." This will...
DATES: October 1st, 1999 - June 30th, 2006
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The Fort Worth Museum of Science and History will partner with The Exploratorium and with three smaller science museums that have strong connections to rural and Spanish-speaking populations in Texas:...
DATES: August 15th, 2004 - January 31st, 2010
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Presentation on NSF grant DRL-0337354 (""TexNET: Texas Network for Exhibit-based Learning and Teaching"") presented at the CAISE Convening on Organizational Networks, November 17th, 2011."") presented at the CAISE Convening on...
DATE: November 17th, 2011
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Learning using primary literature may be a way of developing a capacity for scientific ways of thinking among students. Since reading research articles is a difficult task for novices, we...
DATE: January 1st, 2005
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In this article, photographer Amy Dreher critiques the "Click! A Crowd-Curated Exhibition" at the Brooklyn Museum from a partipant's perspective. The exhibit is based on James Surowiecki's critically acclaimed book,...
DATE: July 1st, 2009
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This paper explores the question “What proportion of the local population can museums expect to attract?”, using data on museum visitation collected by means of a population-based sample survey repeated...
DATE: May 1st, 2005
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The Education Development Center (EDC) is implementing the national expansion and institutionalization of the Playing to Win (PTW) Network. With the goal of working toward universal technology enfranchisement and prior...
DATES: November 1st, 1995 - October 31st, 2000
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In this paper, researchers from the University of Florida discuss the cognitive movement in instruction, which has major implications for research and practice in informal settings. The authors focus on...
DATE: January 1st, 1990
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At the 1939–1940 New York World's Fair, several thousand boys and girls, all members of a growing national network of high school science and engineering clubs, displayed their science fair...
DATE: September 1st, 2009
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In this article, Ridgeley Williams and Rosalyn Rubenstein, the co-chairs of the 1991 Visitor Studies Conference Committee, reflect on the success of the conference, which was the first VSA conference...
DATE: January 1st, 1991
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This Handbook was developed to provide project directors and principal investigators working with the National Science Foundation (NSF) with a basic guide for evaluating NSF’s educational projects. It is aimed...
DATE: December 1st, 2010
