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In this article, Judy Rand reflects on her experience in developing exhibits and using visitor research to help inform these efforts. Rand reflects on a rafting trip through the Grand...
DATE: January 1st, 1997
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In this article, Beverly Serrell of Serrell & Associates proposes a type of standardized summative evaluation that sets criteria for determining the success of an exhibition. Serrell outlines her support...
DATE: September 1st, 1995
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It is common knowledge that U.S. students have fallen behind in the acquisition of science knowledge and that the necessary solution is greater investment and better practices in our schools....
DATE: November 1st, 2010
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This paper discusses exhibit labels and how to design them effectively. Author Stephen Bitgood organizes the literature on exhibit labeling into three general components: (a) know your audience; (b) capture...
DATE: January 1st, 1991
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The Exploratorium will develop a series of Internet resources on three popular topics -- cooking, gardening, and making music -- to encourage users in science education activities in relation to...
DATES: September 15th, 2001 - August 31st, 2005
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Many libraries are now providing innovative science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) activities in their youth programs, including interactive exhibitions and hands-on workshops. What started some years ago as independent...
DATE: November 30th, 2013
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Silence of the Lands enables participants to annotate and map the soundscape of wild and urban natural environments. Participants can record and collect ambient sounds, create and share individual and...
DATE: November 1st, 2006
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In this article, Marilyn G. Hood, Ph.D., of Hood Associates, discusses African-American attendance and non-attendance at art museums. Hood presents findings from focus groups and individual interviews used to better...
DATE: May 1st, 1993
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Through a collaboration of the DuPage Children's Museum, Argonne National Laboratory, and National-Louis University, a three-element project is being conducted focusing on the following: 1) a research component that studies...
DATES: January 1st, 1997 - June 30th, 2000
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The Triangle Coalition for Science and Technology Education initiated the Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellowship program in 1990. This program provides outstanding secondary mathematics and science teachers with an opportunity...
DATES: September 1st, 2001 - August 31st, 2002
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In late spring 2010, Goodman Research Group, Inc. (GRG) was contracted by the Museum of Science, Boston, to conduct an outcomes evaluation of their educational live performance, The Amazing Nano...
DATE: September 1st, 2010
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This paper introduces a nonparametric statistical method for the analysis of time data in visitor research and evaluation studies. Measures of duration are often used to analyze visitor behavior and...
DATE: January 1st, 1991
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In this article, Jacksonville State University's Stephen Bitgood discusses the complexity of an educational exhibition. Bitgood provides a detailed analysis of the exhibit environment to better understand how to design...
DATE: January 1st, 1992
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This paper begins by questioning the narrow definition of learning used in much present writing concerning lifelong learning, which tends to focus on the purported economic and societal benefits of...
DATE: December 1st, 1999
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This Communicating Research to Public Audiences project from the University of South Carolina (USC) is based on the ongoing multidisciplinary investigations of Eugene Karabanov and Douglas Williams (OPP-0229737) in the...
DATES: March 1st, 2004 - February 28th, 2006
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This paper aims to further articulate multicultural science education scholarship. In particular, it explores the notions of borders and border epistemologies as intellectual resources to think again about the challenges...
DATE: May 1st, 2010
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In 1917, the French artist Marcel Duchamp submitted a store-bought porcelain urinal turned on its back and signed R. Mutt to the hanging committee of the Society for Independent Artists...
DATE: October 1st, 1991
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Over the past three years, hundreds of community-based afterschool comic book clubs have been launched in cities across the United States. These clubs have drawn in thousands of underserved youths...
DATE: October 1st, 2006
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Poster on NSF grant DRL-0943769 (""The Art of Science Learning"") at the 2012 ISE PI Meeting....
DATE: March 15th, 2012
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The Art of Science Learning conference generated a list of arts-based or arts-inspired science teaching strategies, including songwriting, architecture, theatrical pieces, and data visualization....
DATE: January 1st, 2011
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American educators and policymakers have often claimed that the arts can have powerful effects in education and that these effects may reverberate far beyond the arts. Arts education has been...
DATE: September 1st, 2000
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Awareness of the value of community youth arts could help support more formal partnerships between arts learning and afterschool organizations....
DATE: June 1st, 2010
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This paper outlines theoretical foundations, methodology, and key findings from a membership survey conducted by the San Antonio Museum Association in 1987. The study was designed to provide insights to...
DATE: January 1st, 1992
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This paper provides an overview of the Audience Research Consortium of Toronto, comprised of the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Metropolitan Toronto Zoo, the Ontario Science Center and the Royal...
DATE: January 1st, 1990
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This is a brief abstract of Pete Conroy's Master's Thesis at the University of Georgia. Through his research, Conroy identified and described two components of museum education: the audiences who...
DATE: January 1st, 1990
