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Historically sharks have been seen either as a source of income through harvesting, or as a nuisance and danger. The economic value of sharks has traditionally been measured as the...
DATE: September 25th, 2017
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During the school year of 2016-2017, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden (Fairchild) implemented the first year of a four-year project entitled: Growing Beyond Earth (GBE). NASA is providing funding support for...
DATE: July 1st, 2017
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Citizen science by youth is rapidly expanding, but very little research has addressed the ways programs meet the dual goals of rigorous conservation science and environmental science education. We examined...
DATE: April 1st, 2017
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Citizen science offers youth and educators unique opportunities to observe and explore the world through authentic research experiences that are necessary for robust STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) learning....
DATE: May 10th, 2017
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Most scientists say they got into science to make the world a better place and recognize this means sharing what they learn with a range of other people. But deciding...
DATE: September 19th, 2017
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DACUM (Developing A CUrriculuM) was developed in Canada in the 1980s as a tool for industry to improve training. It has been championed in the USA by the Center for...
DATE: May 1st, 2016
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This review is a short synthesis of some of the literature around learning in adulthood, professional learning, professional learning frameworks, and models of professional learning frameworks. Its primary purpose is...
DATE: June 1st, 2016
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This purpose of this review was to identify characteristics common across professional development frameworks within emerging professions (i.e. fields that are not regulated or licensed) and to identify practices and...
DATE: December 1st, 2017
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In August 2012, the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) contracted with Audience Focus (AF), a Maryland-Āābased research and evaluation organization, to evaluate visitorsā experiences with the Scientist Is In...
DATE: November 15th, 2012
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This poster was presented at the 2010 Association of Science-Technology Centers Annual Conference. The Saint Louis Science Center is a partner in Washington University's Cognitive, Computational, and Systems Neuroscience interdisciplinary...
DATE: January 1st, 2010
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This Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) award supports the establishment of an interdisciplinary graduate training program in Cognitive, Computational, and Systems Neuroscience at Washington University in Saint Louis....
DATES: July 1st, 2006 - June 30th, 2013
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To address the challenges of recruiting, training, impacting, and retaining scientists in informal outreach and to capitalize on access to the public through a local science center, Washington University and...
DATE: January 5th, 2012
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This poster was presented at ASTC 2016 in Tampa, Florida. Climate change can be abstract to visitors, but seeing, touching and smelling permafrost can make it seem more real. This...
DATE: September 13th, 2016
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This project, conducted by the University of Pittsburgh and the University of California, Berkeley, seeks to discover what makes middle school students engaged in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)....
DATES: April 1st, 2014 - March 31st, 2018
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Constructivist education theory postulates (Fosnot, 1996; Hein, 1998) that visitors learn actively and create their own meanings as they interact with the world. This raises challenges for visitor studies, since...
DATE: January 1st, 1997
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The Experiment Benches at Science Museum of Minnesota are a series of multiple-outcome participatory exhibits located within the Experiment Gallery. Designed to give visitors a large degree of control over...
DATE: July 1st, 1994
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The Environmental Scientist-in-Residence Program will leverage NOAA s scientific assets and personnel by combining them with the creativity and educational knowledge of the pioneer hands-on science center. To do this,...
DATES: October 1st, 2010 - October 31st, 2011
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CoCoRaHS (The Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network) is a citizen science program where thousands of volunteers across the entire country measure and report the amount of precipitation that...
DATES: October 30th, 2010 - October 31st, 2011
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The project will increase the effectiveness of informal science educators to promote public understanding of three complex topics that impact the ocean (oil spills, ocean acidification, and energy literacy) and...
DATES: October 1st, 2012 - October 31st, 2013
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Focusing on climate change and its impact on coastal zones and marine life, Visualizing Change will build educator capacity in the aquarium community and informal science education field. Building on...
DATES: October 1st, 2013 - October 31st, 2014
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This is an extensive international bibliography of zoo-based visitor studies and exhibit evaluations, which includes more than 6,000 references....
DATE: March 4th, 2013
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This paper was presented at the annual meeting of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching, NARST, Chicago, IL. It describes findings from the Work With a Scientist Program...
DATE: April 11th, 2015
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This poster was presented at 2017 Campus Office of Undergraduate Research Initiatives (COURI) Symposium, El Paso, TX.
One of the principal challenges of the partnership of scientists and high school...
DATE: April 29th, 2017
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This poster was presented at 2017 Campus Office of Undergraduate Research Initiatives (COURI) Symposium, El Paso, TX.
Purpose & Problem - According to some existing results identified in the literature, the...
DATE: April 29th, 2017
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This poster was presented at 2017 Campus Office of Undergraduate Research Initiatives (COURI) Symposium, El Paso, TX.
This study introduces cogenerative dialogues as a pedagogical tool to enhance the communications between...
DATE: April 29th, 2017
