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  • Access from the Ground Up Evaluation Report
    Date: 04/18/2022
    Resource Category!: Summative
    Funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Access from the Ground Up project at the Palo Alto Junior Museum & Zoo (JMZ) seeks to better serve children with disabilities through a combination of partnerships with community, staff professional development and training, and the development of accessible STEM-focused exhibits and ... »
  • Learning Technology Studio: Building Capacity for Innovation
    Date: 10/01/2019
    Resource Category!: Project Descriptions
    The Lawrence Hall of Science at the University of California, Berkeley, will launch the Learning Technology Studio project to improve the ability of its staff to create digital technology tools and experiences that help youth, families, and adults learn about STEM topics. The museum will design and implement a professional learning program for ... »
  • Museum Makers: Designing With Data
    Date: 03/19/2019
    Resource Category!: Conference Proceedings
    This guide describes what took place during NYSCI’s Big Data for Little Kids workshop series, Museum Makers: Designing With Data. In addition to detailed outlines of the activities implemented during the program, this guide includes a glossary of recurrent terms and resources used throughout the workshops. In 2017, as part of a National Science ... »
  • A Design-Based Research Study of Staff-Facilitated Family Learning at Interactive Math Exhibits
    Date: 12/18/2017
    Resource Category!: Peer-reviewed article
    Staff facilitators in museums and science centers are a critical but often overlooked component of the visitor experience. Despite assertions about the important role they play in visitor learning, there continues to be almost no research to understand staff facilitation in these settings or identify effective practices. To address these gaps, we ... »
  • Designing Our World Summative Evaluation Year 4
    Date: 12/15/2017
    Resource Category!: Summative
    Designing Our World (DOW) was a four-year NSF-funded initiative in which the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) sought to promote girls’ pursuit of engineering careers through community-based programming, exhibition development, and identity research. The overarching aim of DOW was to engage girls ages 9–14 with experiences that ... »
  • Itty Bitty Science: Collaborative of Early Science Learning Museums Partner with Head Start to Promote Science
    Date: 11/16/2017
    Resource Category!: Peer-reviewed article
    This article focuses on the efforts of the Collaborative for Early Science Learning (CESL), a group of six museums led by the Sciencenter in Ithaca, New York, that partner with their local Head Start programs to provide training for teachers and opportunities for family engagement. These efforts address the gap between children’s readiness to ... »
  • REVEAL: Process Evaluation Report on Culturally Responsive Research
    Date: 01/01/2017
    Resource Category!: Evaluation Reports
    Researching the Value of Educator Actions for Learning (REVEAL) is an NSF-funded research project, led by the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) in collaboration with TERC and Oregon State University (OSU), which studied the impact of science center staff facilitation strategies at math exhibits. Building on and using exhibits from ... »
  • Indoor Positioning System EAGER Project Public Outcomes Report
    Date: 09/30/2016
    Resource Category!: Report
    This EAGER project sought to generate early knowledge for the museum field about the capabilities and limitations of an Indoor Positioning System to: 1) automate the collection of visitor movement data for museum research, and 2) enable location-aware applications designed to support museum visitor learning. Working with Qualcomm, Inc., the ... »
  • Understanding Physics through Collaborative Design and Play
    Date: 09/01/2016
    Resource Category!: Project Descriptions
    This project had three objectives to build knowledge with respect to advancing Informal STEM Education: Plan, prototype, fabricate, and document a game-linked design-and-play STEM exhibit for multi-generational adult-child interaction utilizing an iterative exhibit design approach based on research and best practices in the field; Develop and ... »
  • Roots of Wisdom Summative Evaluation for Professional Audience Impacts
    Date: 08/31/2016
    Resource Category!: Summative
    Roots of Wisdom (also known as Generations of Knowledge) is a 5-year project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF-DRL #1010559) in support of a cross-cultural reciprocal collaboration to develop a traveling exhibit, banner exhibit, and education resources that bring together Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and western science. The ... »

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