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This study compared grandparent–grandchild groups who experienced an informal science exhibition by visiting a museum or by visiting a website. Although intergenerational learning is often the focus of visitor research,...

"Weapons of mass destruction" is the word of the year 2002, at least according to the American Dialect Society, an association which has been studying the English language in North...

This article investigates the development of agency in science among low-income urban youth aged 10 to 14 as they participated in a voluntary year-round program on green energy technologies conducted...

In this article, Eugene Dillenburg, an Exhibit Developer at The Science Museum of Minnesota, examines the relationship between the exhibit profession and professional training. Dillenberg surveyed exhibit workers--department chairs, commercial...

A report following the 2016 Environmental Health Summit recommended engaging citizens in creating their own knowledge and solutions, thus ensuring that their concerns are adequately addressed and promoting sustainability of...

Recent advances in neuroscience are highlighting connections between emotion, social functioning, and decision making that have the potential to revolutionize our understanding of the role of affect in education. In...

In this article, Kathleen McLean, Principal of Independent Exhibitions, explores the importance of criticism for museum exhibitions. McLean includes a model of how to assess an exhibition as a chronicle...

In this article, Kathleen McLean, Principal of Independent Exhibitions, responds to her 1994 article in the "Exhibitionist" to explore how far the field has come in terms of exhibit evaluation...

As part of our ongoing efforts to gather important insights from the ISE community, we are offering this listening session as an alternative mode to our  ISE Equity Matters Survey.

The Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education (CAISE) is looking for a Communications Coordinator to join our Washington, DC-based team.  Note that we are also hiring a Senior Manager of Community and Project Manager. Learn more about our recent team transitions. CAISE is based at the Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC) in Washington, DC. The position is full-time, 40 hours per week and is ... Read more

THIS POSITION IS NOW CLOSED. The Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education (CAISE) is looking for a Project Manager to join our Washington, DC-based team.  Note that we are also hiring a Senior Manager of Community and Communications Coordinator.  Learn more about our recent team transitions. CAISE is based at the Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC) in Washington, DC. The position is full-time, 40 hours ... Read more

The Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education (CAISE) is looking for a Senior Manager of Community to join our Washington, DC-based team.  Note that we are also hiring a Project Manager and Communications Coordinator. Learn more about our recent team transitions. CAISE is based at the Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC) in Washington, DC. The position is full-time, 40 hours per week and ... Read more

Over the seven years prior to this award, the principal investigator from George Mason University and a national team of scientists, professional societies, science communication researchers, and broadcast meteorologists have...

In this article, Tiffany Sakato, museum studies graduate student at NYU and exhibition media intern at the National September 11 Memorial Museum, explores how American graduate programs in museum studies...

This innovations in development project will develop and study the Wéetespeme Stewardship Program (Wéetespeme: “I am of this land”). Tribal led, the project supports and studies climate science learning experiences...

The Take Two Institutional Research Study was an ethnographic case study of the contributions of Web 2.0 philosophy and technologies to museum practice and staff development at the Museum of...

Scientific information looks to Web 2.0 models as an opportunity for shedding the constraints of traditional scientific publishing (high costs, slow processing, domination by elites). However, outcomes in the other...

The current study compared 90 older adult-child pairs in three different informal settings that focused on the topic of heart health: a museum, the web, and an educational workshop. Pre/post...

This paper details a long-term evolving effort to provide evaluation instruction designed to address specific information needs for selected target groups from a centralized location within a networked environment. Additionally,...

It seems difficult to suggest that creating an educational software program with 30+ individuals of varying skill sets, spread across the country from Hawaii to Vermont, is an ideal model...

Proposals to the National Science Foundation’s Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program are due on November 6, 2017. This pre-recorded webcast is an in-depth review of the AISL Solicitation (NSF 17-573). It is a complement to the AISL Overview webinar (see archived materials) but provides more detail and addresses nuances not covered in the AISL ... Read more

Citizen Science has become an umbrella term for a variety of forms of public participation in scientific research. This participation ranges from data gathering to more collaborative and community-led forms....

The National Science Foundation (NSF) hereby solicits proposals for the establishment of the Arecibo Center for STEM Education and Research (ACSER) at the original site of the Arecibo Observatory (AO). Arecibo Center for STEM Education and Research (ACSER)

The National Science Foundation has a new Dear Colleague Letter: Mid-Scale Research Infrastructure Incubators and Conferences for STEM Education Research with a Focus on Education Equity. Proposal deadlines are 7/1/2022, 9/1/2022, and 3/1/2023. Join an informational webinar on June 14, 3-4PM ET.   May 11, 2022 Dear Colleagues: With this Dear Colleague Letter (DCL), the ... Read more

On behalf of NSF, we are writing to let you know that the ITEST Program is holding an informational webinar regarding its call for resource center proposals.  Information about the ITEST Resource Center responsibilities is available in the current ITEST program solicitation: https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2022/nsf22585/nsf22585.htm The webinar will be held on June 7th from 1pm to 2pm Eastern Time (US and ... Read more