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This commentary explores the kinds of audiences who attend science festivals in the United States by examining data from nearly 10,000 attendees from 24 festivals. Findings are presented to describe festival audiences overall and...
DATE: April 21st, 2019
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This report details the results of a five-year longitudinal study on the Explainer program at the Exploratorium. Explainers from the summer 1999, fall 1999 and spring 2000 cohorts were interviewed...
DATE: July 15th, 2005
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The PEAR Institute: Partnerships in Education and Resilience at McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School conducted a year-long study of the Tulsa Regional STEM Alliance (TRSA). Funded by the Overdeck...
DATE: April 23rd, 2019
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An in-depth case study of one of America’s first STEM Learning Ecosystems in Tulsa, Oklahoma, conducted by researchers at The PEAR Institute: Partnerships in Education and Resilience, finds that strong...
DATE: April 23rd, 2019
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Research shows that science centers and museums play an important role in giving youth STEM learning opportunities (Hamilton, Nussbaum, Kupermintz, Kerkhoven, & Snow, 1995; Salmi, 2001, 2002). These informal learning spaces...
DATE: May 21st, 2019
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Recently, Dancstep undertook a comprehensive study of exhibits in order to identify designs that most successfully engage girls aged 8-13 years (without turning away boys). That project, called Exhibit Designs for...
DATE: May 6th, 2019
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This project will advance efforts of the Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) program to better understand and promote practices that increase students' motivations and capacities to pursue...
DATES: July 1st, 2015 - June 30th, 2020
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This guide grows out of the research project “Evidence-based Science Communication with Policymakers” conducted by the four authors and sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences and the Rita Allen...
DATE: July 15th, 2019
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This video captures the energy and potetial of the Designing our Tomorrow project. It is intended to complement presentations and posters about Designing our Tomorrow.
The Designing Our Tomorrow project...
DATE: July 11th, 2019
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These Latinas are innovators, problem-solvers and science superstars who celebrate their heritage and culture. They’re passionate about their work, hobbies, families and helping to make the world a better place....
DATE: July 11th, 2019
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On September 5–6, 2018, the Exploratorium hosted the Conference on Mobile Position Awareness Systems and Solutions (COMPASS). The 80 attendees were from throughout the United States, and from Canada, Australia,...
DATE: July 8th, 2019
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Activity to imagine what it’s like to be an animal and to recognize that aquarium/zoo animals have wild counterparts with similar needs.
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DATE: July 8th, 2019
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This game is used to measure whether program participation helps to evelop the child’s ability to accurately predict or infer an animal’s emotional state.
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DATE: July 8th, 2019
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This scale is used to assess emotions which can be precursors to empathy.
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DATE: July 8th, 2019
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This scale is used to assess emotions which can be precursors to empathy.
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DATE: July 8th, 2019
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Survey to determine tween/teen’s attitudes towards animals and whether or not this shifts as a result of experiencing empathy-related programming.
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DATE: July 8th, 2019
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This observational framework can be used with different group types (e.g. family, school group, adult couple, individual, etc.) and across diverse settings such as with public program audiences, camps, or...
DATE: July 8th, 2019
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The Adler Planetarium, Johns Hopkins University, and Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville are investigating the potential of online citizen science projects to broaden the pool of volunteers who participate in analysis and...
DATES: September 1st, 2013 - September 30th, 2016
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We have created an instrument to measure the prevalance of various motivations in a population of volunteers in an online citizen science project. Our project is Zooniverse (www.zooniverse.org), a collection...
DATE: July 7th, 2019
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This timeline was constructed by participants during the Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education (CAISE ISE Summit) meeting in March 3-5, 2010 to document histories, capture events, and share...
DATE: March 12th, 2010
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Health is a personal experience, a social issue and a global concern. Any attempt to improve health, whether through new treatments, policies or procedures, will be most effective when patients...
DATE: June 19th, 2019
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K-12 informal engineering education can support student confidence, interest, and awareness of the field of engineering. Studies have suggested that K-12 informal learning can influence students’ awareness of the fields...
DATE: June 26th, 2018
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A short literature review in regards to museums, their role within society, and the rise of representation of STEM within them. Taken from my dissertation from the College of Education...
DATE: June 25th, 2019
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The Rural Informal STEM Conference (RISC), sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and held at its headquarters on September 13–14, 2018, was the first of its kind to bring...
DATE: September 14th, 2018
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This study investigated the effect of different scientific inquiry activities on visitors’ understanding of the science underlying an interactive exhibit. The exhibit, “colored shadows,” creates a pattern of colored shadows...
DATE: May 15th, 1997
