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Science is often seen by students to be a body of incontrovertible facts. If, however, we emphasise the methods in which scientific ideas and explanations are exchanged, challenged and negotiated,...
DATE: August 1st, 2011
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In this article, Colorado State University researcher Jerome Dagostino presents a review of three noteworthy museum studies to highlight the variety of different survey techniques used to evaluate art museums....
DATE: January 1st, 1989
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The Virginia Air & Space Center (VASC): Creating an Exciting NASA Inspired Education Program was a two-year project to develop and deliver teacher workshops, classroom outreach visits to students of...
DATES: June 27th, 2012 - June 26th, 2014
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The Computer Museum will develop two 2500 sq. ft. computer-based exhibits the "Virtual Fishtank: Splashing Into Complex Systems". One exhibit will be installed permanently in the Computer Museum and the...
DATES: September 15th, 1996 - August 31st, 1999
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The Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), as an active cultural promoter, implemented a virtual museum system in order to help and develop expression related to art, science and humanities....
DATE: January 1st, 2008
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This paper describes the Visitor Evaluation Program developed jointly by the Centre de Recherche Evaluation Social des Technologies (CREST) in Montreal (Bernard Schiele) and the CNRS in Paris (Jacqueline Eidelman)....
DATE: January 1st, 1991
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In this paper, Terry Cheney of T.J. Cheney Research, Inc. defines the spectrum of visitors known as a "visitor rainbow," ranging from visitors who never attend museums to visitors who...
DATE: January 1st, 1992
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In this article, researchers from Colorado State University discuss a research study at the Denver Art Museum. The study investigated how one survey of visitors to the museum was used...
DATE: January 1st, 1989
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Children's Television Workshop is embaring on a ground- breaking experiment in informal science education: the production of an entertaining animated series of 13 half- hour programs for Saturday morning commercial...
DATES: August 1st, 1991 - July 31st, 1994
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This study analyzes the impact of the wonderment questions of students on the teacher and student discourse in the classroom. It also points out that handling the different types of...
DATE: August 1st, 2011
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The Mount Washington Observatory is expanding the daily, nationally broadcast radio program, "The Weather Notebook." The two-minute programs inform an estimated 2.5 million weekly listeners about the science underlying weather....
DATES: July 15th, 2000 - December 31st, 2004
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The scientific community is challenged by the need to reach out to students who have traditionally not been attracted to engineering and the sciences. This project would provide a link...
DATES: August 1st, 1992 - December 31st, 1996
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9355625 Cassady The Children's Museum of Indianapolis is developing a new permanent 12,000 square-foot gallery, "The Wet, Wild, Wonderful World of Science: A Science Gallery That Connects Kids to Their...
DATES: May 15th, 1994 - March 31st, 1997
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This is a planning grant to Children's Television Workshop (CTW) to develop further the science content in a proposed television series for 8-12 year olds entitled, The Wheel In Space....
DATES: September 1st, 1996 - August 31st, 1997
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In this introduction, Jeff Hayward of People, Places & Design Research discusses three papers that follow in this issue of "Visitor Studies." The articles discuss the emerging field of visitor...
DATE: January 1st, 1995
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In this article, Jenni Martin, Director of Education at Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose, describes how and why her team developed a new exhibit, "The Wonder Cabinet" for children...
DATE: January 1st, 2008
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In this article, M. Hagedorn-Saupe discusses visitor-related research efforts at the Institute fur Museumskunde in Berlin. Hagedorn-Saupe provides an overview of data collection studies on museum visits and related projects,...
DATE: January 1st, 1996
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The Louisville Science Center (LSC) proposes to develop "The World Around Us (WAU)," an 8,000 sq ft exhibition, plus programs and materials designed to increase environmental awareness of citizens, inspiring...
DATES: January 1st, 2004 - December 31st, 2006
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The Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History will construct a new 9,000 square foot Bird Hall utilizing interactive exhibitry in a unique combination with original mounted specimens. The exhibition...
DATES: January 10th, 1990 - June 30th, 1992
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Public Radio International (PRI) is developing and producing a three-year technology initiative in the internationally distributed news and information radio series, "The World." The series is co-produced by PRI, the...
DATES: March 10th, 2000 - February 28th, 2003
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The Louisville Science Center will develop "The World We Create", a 13,000 sq. ft. exhibit which will transform their second floor to an active learning environment where visitors can explore...
DATES: September 15th, 1996 - August 31st, 1999
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The Louisville Science Center will develop "'The World We Create' -- a Traveling Exhibit." This project will develop two traveling version exhibitions (approximately 2,500 sq. ft. each) based on the...
DATES: September 1st, 1999 - August 31st, 2002
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This project builds the capacity of public radio's The World, a daily one hour global news broadcast to cover a broad spectrum of science and technology topics. The project would...
DATES: July 15th, 2008 - August 8th, 2010
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The findings summarized in this summative evaluation report focus on three of The World's media venues: (1) its radio broadcast, (2) its Science Podcast (http://www.world-science.org/category/podcast), and (3) its online resources...
DATE: October 10th, 2010
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Ways of Knowing, Inc. is developing "The Writing Project," two one-hour television documentary programs about the science (the archeology and written history, anthropology, and cognitive science) of writing systems and,...
DATES: April 1st, 2000 - December 31st, 2001
