John H Falk

University Professor, Professor of Free-Choice Learning

Oregon State University

Oregon, United States

http://education.oregonstate.edu/john-h-falk, institute for learning innovaton

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International Conference: The Integration of Science Centres with Natural History Museums for Imparting Informal Education

A Cross-Cultural Investigation of the Novel Field Trip Phenomenon: National Museum of Natural History, New Delhi

A Multi-Factor Investigation of Variables Affecting Informal Science Learning

A Partnership in Outdoor Science Education

A perspective on field trips: Environmental Effects on Learning.

Advancing the NSES Vision through Informal Science Education

An identity-centered approach to understanding museum learning

Analysing the UK science education community: The contribution of informal providers

Analysis of Family Visitors in Natural History Museums: The National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C.

Analyzing science education in the U.K.: Taking a system-wide approach

Assessing the Impact of a Visit to a Zoo or Aquarium: A Multi-institutional Research Project

Assessing the impact of exhibit arrangement on visitor behavior and learning

Assessing the Impact of Museums

Business Models for the 21st Century: Overview of ASTC 2004 Presentation

CAISE Convening on Broader Impacts and ISE Front‐End Report

Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education (2012-2015)

Collaborative Research: Research: Zoo And Aquarium Action Research Collaborative (ZAARC)

Conference, Symposia, and Workshop: Engaging the Science Center Community in Defining and Utilizing Impact Metrics

Conference: Science Museum Futures

Contextualizing Falk's visitor identity-related motivation model

Critique of a Critique: Do Zoos and Aquariums Promote Attitude Change in Visitors?

Dialogue and Synthesis: Developing Consensus in Visitor Research Methodology

Efficacy Study of Metropolitan Denver's Urban Advantage Program: A Project to Improve Scientific Literacy Among Urban Middle School Students

Elementary, Secondary, and Informal Education: Investigating the Long Term Impact of a Science Center on Its Community

Enhancing Visitor Interaction and Learning with Mobile Technologies

Environmental effects on learning: The outdoor field trip.

Estimating experimenter induced bias in field studies: A cautionary tale.

Exploring the impacts of wildlife tourism on visitors’ long-term environmental learning and behaviour

Factors contributing to adult knowledge of science and technology

Factors influencing African American leisure time utilization of museums

Family behavior and learning in informal science settings: A review of the research.

Field Trips: A Look at Environmental Effects on Learning.

FORUM: Communication about science in a traditional museum — visitors’ and staff’s perceptions

Free Choice Learning: Accessing the Informal Science Education Infrastructure

Free-Choice Learning and the Environment

Free-Choice Science Education: How We Learn Science Outside of School

Free‐choice environmental learning: framing the discussion

Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast

Identity and the Museum Visitor Experience

Impact of National Aquarium in Baltimore on Visitors' Conservation Attitudes, Behavior, and Knowledge

In Praise of "Both-And" Rather Than "Either-Or": A Reply to Harris Shettel

In Principle, In Practice

In Principle, in Practice: Museums As Learning Institutions

In Principle, In Practice: The Second Annapolis Conference on Museum Learning

Informal Science Education Resource Center (ISERC)

Informal Science Education: Lifelong, Life-Wide, Life-Deep

Informal STEM Education: Resources for Outreach, Engagement and Broader Impacts

Interactives and Visitor Learning

Interested, Disinterested, or Neutral: Exploring STEM Interest Profiles and Pathways in A Low-Income Urban Community

International Science Centre Impact Study

International Travel Grant: Connected Audiences

International Travel Grant: Connected Audiences

Investigating public science interest and understanding: evidence for the importance of free-choice learning

Investigating the Cascading, Long Term Effects of Informal Science Education Experiences Report

Investigating the impact of prior knowledge, experience and interest on aquarium visitor learning

Investigating the Role of Emotion in Science Center Visitor Learning

Invisible Forces Exhibition: Using Evaluation to Improve an Exhibition

ISE Learning Research and Evaluation

Learning from Museums: Visitor Experiences and the Making of Meaning

Learning science from museums

Learning Solutions: Investigating Fundamental Tools, Resources & Strategies to Support Professionals Addressing Persistent Issues in STEM

Leisure Decisions Influencing African-American Use of Museums

Lessons Without Limit: How Free-choice Learning is Transforming Education

Life in Early California: A New Approach to the Outdoor Field Trip

Living in a learning society: Museums and free-choice learning

Many Experts, Many Audiences: Public Engagement with Science

Maximizing the External Value of Museums

Measuring the impact of a science center on its community

Measuring the long-term effects of informal science education experiences: challenges and potential solutions

Museum Education Research: Future Directions

Museum Recollections

Museum Recollections

Museums as Institutions for Personal Learning

Museums as Institutions for Personal Learning

Optimizing out-of-school time: The role of free-choice learning

Outdoor Biology Instructional Strategies: Development and Evaluation

Outdoor education: A technique for assessing student behaviors.

Policy statement of the "Informal Science Education" Ad Hoc Committee.

Poster - ZAARC: Zoo and Aquarium Action Research Collaborative

Predicting Visitor Behavior

Public Institutions for Personal Learning: Establishing a Research Agenda

Public Understanding of Science: A Literature Review

Pushing the Limits Building Capacity to Enhance Public Understanding of Math and Science through Rural Libraries Front-End Evaluation Report

Pushing the Limits: Building Capacity to Enhance Public Understanding of Math and Science Through Rural Libraries

Re-envisioning success in the cultural sector

Recalling the Museum Experience

Recent Advances in the Neurosciences: Implications for Visitor Studies

Reconceptualizing STEM+Computing Literacy

Redefining the museum experience: The Interactive Experience Model.

Redefining the Visitor Experience: The Interactive Experience Model

Rural Gateways: Fostering the Development of Rural Librarians as Informal Science Facilitators

Sample Abstracts from the First Annual Visitor Studies Conference

School field trips: Assessing their long-term impact

Science learning in a leisure setting

Science Minders Project

Science Museum Futures

Serious Fun: Viewing Hobbyist Activities through a Learning Lens

Summary - The Field Trip Milieu: Learning and Behavior as a Function of Contextual Events

Supporting the Implementation of NGSS through Research: Informal Science Education

SYNERGIES--Understanding and Connecting STEM Learning in the Community

SYNERGIES: Customizing Interventions to Sustain Youth STEM Interest and Participation Pathways

Taking an Ecosystem Approach to STEM Learning: The Synergies Project as Case Study

Testing a museum exhibition design assumption: Effect of explicit labeling of exhibit clusters on visitor concept development

The 95 Percent Solution: School Is Not Where Most Americans Learn Most of Their Science

The Case for Informal Science Education

The contribution of free-choice learning to public understanding of science

The contribution of science-rich resources to public science interest

The Director’s Cut: Toward an Improved Understanding of Learning from Museums

The effect of visitation frequency on long-term recollection

The Effect of Visitors' Agendas on Museum Learning

The field trip milieu: Learning and behavior as a function of contextual events

The Informal Science Education Landscape: A Preliminary Investigation

The Learning Tourist: The Role of Identity-Related Visit Motivations

The Museum Experience

The Museum Experience Revisited

The novel field trip phenomenon: Adjustment to novel settings interferes with task learning.

The Relation Between Visitation Frequency and Long-Term Recollection

The Role of Media in Supporting Free-Choice Science Learning

The School Field Trip: Where You Go Makes the Difference

The Science Learning Ecosystem

The Synergies research–practice partnership project: a 2020 Vision case study

The things of science: Assessing the learning potential of science museums

The use of time as a measure of visitor behavior and exhibit effectiveness.

The Utilization of Science Museums by African Americans: Factors Influencing Free-Choice Visitation

Time and Behavior as Predictors of Learning

Toward an agenda for advancing research on science learning in out-of-school settings

Towards a 21ST Century Approach to Science Education Policy

Travel and learning: a neglected tourism research area

Understanding the Long-term Public Institution for Personal Learning: The Impact of Museums

Understanding youth STEM interest pathways within a single community: the Synergies project

Using Big Data and Visual Analytics to Investigate the Long-term, Cascading Effects of Informal STEM Learning

Using Identity-Related Visit Motivations as a Tool for Understanding Adult Zoo and Aquarium Visitors' Meaning-Making

Using the Contextual Model of Learning to understand visitor learning from a science center exhibition

Utilizing Museums to Promote Public Understanding of Science: Early Adolescent Misconceptions About AIDS Prevention

Utilizing Museums to Promote Public Understanding of Science: Early Adolescent Misconceptions about AIDS Prevention

Valuing free-choice learning in national parks

Viewing Art Museum Visitors Through the Lens of Identity

Visitor Evaluation Toolbox: A Component of "Why Zoos and Aquaria Matter"

Visitor Learning in Zoos and Aquariums: A literature review

Visitors’ learning for environmental sustainability: testing short- and long-term impacts of wildlife tourism experiences using structural equation modelling

Wheeling Your Way Through the Outdoors

Why Zoos and Aquariums Matter: Assessing the Impact of a Visit to a Zoo or Aquarium

ZAARC Project Participant Consent Form

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