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Making, tinkering, and other informal design and engineering experiences offer rich opportunities to engage
children and adults in mathematics and build mathematical skills, knowledge, and interests. But how can educators
successfully integrate...
DATE: March 28th, 2016
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In informal learning environments, science experts, explainers, and guides need support in their work to educate the general public in STEM topics. This study surveyed participants and trainers in communications...
DATE: August 1st, 2011
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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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As part of its overall strategy to enhance learning in informal environments, the Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program seeks to advance new approaches to, and evidence-based understanding of, the...
DATES: September 1st, 2018 - February 29th, 2020
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In a review of the professional development literature, the author of this paper highlights consensus findings about professional development approaches and raises important questions about assumptions underlying the different models....
DATE: August 1st, 2011
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Given the importance of learning to economic and life success, this review seeks to broaden the conception of learning beyond traditional formal education. Learning occurs every day in many ways...
DATE: April 1st, 2016
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Reconceptualizing STEM + Computing Literacy is funded by the STEM+Computing Partnership (STEM+C) program, which seeks to advance multidisciplinary integration of computing and computational thinking in K-12 science, technology, engineering, and...
DATES: October 1st, 2016 - September 30th, 2019
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When engaging in inquiry, learners find it difficult to control variables, design appropriate experiments, and maintain continuity across inquiry sessions. To support learners, researchers developed an inquiry task that promoted...
DATE: January 1st, 2013
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Girls and women, especially if they are people of color, supposedly do not like computer technology or science. Myriad reports and studies document their limited interest and participation in these...
DATE: January 1st, 2004
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Ideas and expectations about professions and about the process of becoming a professional are changing. Once defined largely by licenses or certificates, many fields of work are looking for more...
DATE: June 14th, 2020
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From the proceedings of the 1991 Annual Visitor Studies Conference. The Interactive Experience Model is a visitor-centered perspective suggests that all experience and subsequent learning is contextual. Experience is dictated...
DATE: May 24th, 1992
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In this paper, evaluator Randi Korn of Randi Korn and Associates discusses the variety of experiences, in addition to learning, that museum visitors encounter during a visit that must be...
DATE: January 1st, 1992
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This paper explains the Interactive Experience Model, which encompasses the actions that the visitor is engaged in during a museum visit. This model is useful for thinking about issues related...
DATE: January 1st, 1992
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Youth-focused community and citizen science (CCS) is increasingly used to promote science learning and to increase the accessibility of the tools of scientific research among historically marginalized and underserved communities....
DATE: May 1st, 2023
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This article provides firm evidence, for formal and informal educators alike, that shared learning can be powerful and meaningful, if carefully considered. Findings from a study conducted in a summer...
DATE: January 1st, 2011
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Each year over 120,000 Tasmanians go fishing at least once. Imagine...120,000 potential scientists collecting valuable data about the marine environment! We did. Welcome to Redmap! We invite the community to...
DATES: January 1st, 2009 - January 1st, 2009
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Marked by the diversity of initiatives linking science and art and by new presentation formats, the 15th Congress of the Network for Popularisation of Science and Technology in Latin America...
DATE: October 24th, 2017
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The Red de PopularizaciĂłn de la Ciencia y la TecnologĂa en AmĂ©rica latina y el Caribe (RedPOP) (Latin American and Caribbean Network for the Popularization of Science and Technology) was...
DATE: September 29th, 2015
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The notion that science is unified in one way or another dates back at least to Aristotle, though unity claims since then have been diverse and va riously motivated. By...
DATE: January 1st, 2007
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This is a bibliography for a glossary of key terms related to the field of visitor studies and evaluation. The glossary can be found on page 8 of the same...
DATE: January 1st, 1988
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The Zoo and Aquarium Action Research Collaborative (ZAARC) was an NSF-funded project (DRL-1114335) involving four zoos and two aquariums, plus informal science education researchers from TERC (a non-profit educational research...
DATE: March 17th, 2017
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Early field experiences, or those that come early in a teacher’s preparation before more formalized opportunities like practicum and student teaching, can provide a venue for preservice teachers to practice...
DATE: August 31st, 2017
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This short comment presents a few suggestions for the enrichment of JCOM seen from the perspective of an informal learning expert....
DATE: March 21st, 2013
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Twenty five years after the introduction of the concept of “collectivization of science” by Ziman, the importance of the research team continues to suffer of a narrow space, both in...
DATE: December 18th, 2009
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As professionals, we often assume that the engaging experiences visitors have in our exhibits and programs will lead to long-term learning. But how do we know this is happening, and,...
DATE: December 15th, 2020
