Lynn Dierking

Sea Grant Professor in Free-Choice STEM Learning

Oregon State University

Oregon, United States

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Resources

Resource Participation

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

2021 Poster - Partnering for Equitable STEM Pathways for Youth from Underrepresented Communities

A Design-Based Research Study of Staff-Facilitated Family Learning at Interactive Math Exhibits

Adults Supporting Kids with Science (ASK with Science)

An Exploratory Investigation of the Effect of Working in an Environmentally Themed Facility on the Conservation-Related Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behavior of Staff

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

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

Cascading Influences: Long-Term Impacts of STEM Informal Experiences for Girls

Collaborative Research: An Evidence-based Informal STEM Learning (ISL) Professional Framework

Conceptualizing Early Childhood STEM Interest Development as a Distributed System: A Preliminary Framework

Connect: Designing the Classroom of Tomorrow by Using Advanced Technologies to Connect Formal and Informal Learning Environments

Conservation Learning in Wildlife Tourism Settings: Lessons from Research in Zoos and Aquariums

Development of Knowledge About Electricity and Magnetism During a Visit to a Science Museum and Related Post-Visit Activities

Early Childhood Science Interest Development: Variation in Interest Patterns and Parent-Child Interactions Among Low-Income Families

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

Enhancing Visitor Interaction and Learning with Mobile Technologies

Equity in informal science learning: a practice-research brief

Exploring staff facilitation that supports family learning

Exploring Staff Facilitation that Supports Family Learning

Exploring the Foundations of Science Interest Development in Early Childhood

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

Family Learning Research in Museums: An Emerging Disciplinary Matrix?

FEST Families Exploring Science Together

Final Report: Pathways to Brighter Futures Through STEM Careers

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

Framework for Evaluating Impacts of Informal Science Education Projects

Full-Scale Development: Designing Our World: A Community Envisioning Girls as Engineers

Getting Inside Visitors' Heads: Utilizing Intepretive Carts As A Mechanism For Analyzing Visitor Conversations

Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast

Hispanic Pathways to Family Science Literacy, STEM Careers and Green Jobs

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

Infographic: Youth equity pathways in informal science learning (ISL)

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

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

Learning from Museums: Visitor Experiences and the Making of Meaning

Learning Science in Everyday Life

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

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

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

Museum Education Research: Future Directions

Museums and Libraries Engaging America’s Youth: Final Report of a Study of IMLS Youth Programs, 1998-2003

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

Pacific Science Center's Science Carnival Consortium Project: A Qualitative Evaluation

Parent-Child Interactions in a Free Choice Learning Setting: An Examination of Attention Directing Behaviors

Pathways in informal science learning: a practice-research brief

Pathways to Advanced Coursework: Linking After-School Programs and STEM Learning - A View from Another Window (2007)

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

Poster - Designing Our World: A Community Envisioning Girls as Engineers

Poster - Researching the Value of Educator Actions on Learning (REVEAL)

Poster - REVEAL: Researching the Value of Educator Actions on Learning

Predicting Visitor Behavior

Public Institutions for Personal Learning: Establishing a Research Agenda

Putting the Framework Into Practice

Re-envisioning success in the cultural sector

Recalling the Museum Experience

Redefining the museum experience: The Interactive Experience Model.

Redefining the Visitor Experience: The Interactive Experience Model

Research and practice agenda

Research: Researching the Value of Educator Actions for Learning (REVEAL)

School field trips: Assessing their long-term impact

Science Learning +: Partnering for Equitable STEM Pathways for Underrepresented Youth

Science Learning +: Partnering for Equitable STEM Pathways for Underrepresented Youth

Science Learning+ Youth Equity Pathways in Informal Science Learning: Survey Findings

Staff Facilitation that Supports Family Learning at Exhibits

Staff-mediated learning in museums: A social interaction perspective

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

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

The effect of visitation frequency on long-term recollection

The identity-frame model: A framework to describe situated identity negotiation for adolescent youth participating in an informal engineering education program

The Impact of Facilitation by Museum Educators on Family Learning at Interactive Math Exhibits: A Quasi-Experimental Study

The Impact of Informal Science on Girls' Interest, Engagement and Participation in Science Communities, Hobbies and Careers: A Research and Dissemination Project

The Informal Science Education Landscape: A Preliminary Investigation

The Museum Experience

The Museum Experience Revisited

The Relation Between Visitation Frequency and Long-Term Recollection

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

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

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

Towards a 21ST Century Approach to Science Education Policy

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

Visitor Learning in Zoos and Aquariums: A literature review

Youth Access & Equity in ISL: Developing a Research and Practice Agenda

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