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Ways of Knowing, Inc. is producing two one-hour film documentarties for public television on the origin, nature and history of writing. "The Writing Project" (working title) is about the study...
DATES: December 10th, 2002 - March 31st, 2008
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The Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the Institute for Learning Innovation, and several environmental organizations are merging existing bird-focused citizen science programs with gardening and online social networking activities to provide...
DATES: September 1st, 2009 - August 31st, 2013
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Evaluators sought to determine impact on math attitude and content knowledge of students (3rd - 6th grade), and math literacy workers (high school and college students), based on pre-post testing...
DATE: July 31st, 2010
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The Indianapolis Zoo, in collaboration with the Metro Toronto Zoo, the Milwaukee Public Zoo, the Phoenix Zoo, the Oregon Zoo and the Fort Worth Zoo will engage in a planning...
DATES: September 1st, 2001 - August 31st, 2002
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Research into learning in informal settings such as museums has been in a formative state during the past decade, and much of that research has been descriptive and lacking a...
DATE: January 1st, 2003
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In this paper the author proposes a theory of development that integrates society, institutional practice and the child's activity. The goal is to inform efforts to create more developmentally supportive...
DATE: August 1st, 2011
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In this article, D.D. Hilke of the National Museum of American History presents his rebuttal to Mark St. John's paper "New Metaphors for Carrying Out Evaluations in the Science Museum...
DATE: January 1st, 1990
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In this article, Jacksonville State University's Bill Ford discusses findings from three studies that suggest that self-reports are often inaccurate if they are not validated. There are often differences between...
DATE: January 1st, 1991
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In this article, Harris Shettel presents an allegorical tale as a response to Mark St. John's paper, "New Metaphors for Carrying Out Evaluations in the Science Museum Setting."...
DATE: January 1st, 1990
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Multimodal technologies are creating new experiential opportunities for exploring, tinkering, learning and interacting in the virtual world. Once combined with sensorial objects and open-ended activities in the physical world, they...
DATE: January 1st, 2008
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Many scientists and science educators are concerned about the public’s ambiguous relationship with science and this public includes elementary teachers. Like many citizens, too many elementary teachers find science disconnected...
DATE: December 28th, 2000
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This case study is an analysis of the art criticism of one undergraduate and eight graduate art education students about the work of contemporary artist Robert Rauschenberg. The purpose of...
DATE: September 1st, 1996
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In this article, Adrian F. Aveni, of the Department of Sociology at Jacksonville State University, writes about his own experience as a visitor during a recent two-week trip to Hong...
DATE: January 1st, 1988
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A formative evaluation was conducted on Three Drops, an Immersive Digital Interactive (IDI), that allows visitors to interact with simulations of water at different size scales where different physical forces...
DATE: January 1st, 2008
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In this article, Amy L. Cota and Ross J. Loomis of Colorado State University discuss effective exhibit labeling. They cite three studies that systematically examined different formatting techniques likely to...
DATE: September 1st, 1997
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The article presents information on library makerspace models in the U.S. that allow patrons to create, build, and craft using technology, including ideas related to deliberate opportunism, collaboration, and centralization...
DATE: January 1st, 2013
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This is a collection of three articles that respond to Cheryl Meszaros's keynote address at the VSA conference....
DATE: September 1st, 2006
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In this paper, Ellen Stokes shares experiences at the St. Louis Zoo related to how guest services can influence the visitor studies agenda. Stokes discusses three issues: Part of the...
DATE: January 1st, 1995
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As more and more people look to institutions of informal education os places where science education occurs (Kimche, 1978; Tressell, 1980), increased attention has focused upon assessing learning in these...
DATE: April 1st, 1983
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In this paper, John P. Braaksma of Carleton University discusses how the method of time-stamping can be used to obtain precise knowledge of visitor movements to aid program planning and...
DATE: January 1st, 1992
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This full-scale development project would use a multi-platform approach (TV, Field School, and Web site) to engage public audiences and underserved youth in archaeology research and discovery. The project will...
DATES: September 15th, 2011 - August 31st, 2014
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WQED and the Pennsylvania State University have created a new archeology series titled Time Travelers: Rediscovering the Past. This eight part series will present in compelling terms the recent scientific...
DATES: April 1st, 1987 - August 31st, 1991
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The Scientific Reasoning Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst will conduct a feasibility study for engaging museum visitors in data analysis through this planning grant. Intellectual Merit: This...
DATES: September 10th, 2004 - February 28th, 2006
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The Science Museum of Minnesota (SMM) contracted Randi Korn & Associates, Inc. (RK&A) to simultaneously conduct a remedial evaluation of the exhibition Tissues of Life and its associated elements: the...
DATE: December 1st, 2003
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Randi Korn & Associates, Inc. (RK&A) was contracted by the Science Museum of Minnesota (SMM) to evaluate Tissues of Life, an exhibition funded by the National Institutes of Health. Data...
DATE: October 1st, 2004
