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

小学、中学和非正式教育：调查科学中心对其社区的长期影响

• 批准号: 0125545
• 负责人: John Falk
• 金额: $ 16.24万
• 依托单位: Institute for Learning Innovation Incorporated
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-04-01 至 2004-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0125545&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Elementary; Secondary; Informal; Education; Investigating

The goal of this project is to make a fundamental contribution towards a nationally shared understanding of the role and impact of a science center in facilitating enhanced public understanding, attitudes and behaviors toward science by means of informal learning activities. To accomplish this, this research project will investigate the following questions: 1) What are the specific long-term changes in science understanding, attitudes and behaviors that result from visiting a science center exhibition? 2) What are the factors that contribute to these long-term changes? 3) What is the relationship between science center visits and subsequent reinforcing educational experiences? This study will build on previous work conducted by ILI at the California Science Center aimed at understanding how a science center impacts its community. These studies are known collectively as the Los Angeles Science Education Research Project (LASER). A sample of participants in one of the LASER studies has expressed their willingness to participate in subsequent interviews. These interviews will be designed to capture both small and large changes in science understanding, attitudes, behaviors and other informal learning experiences subsequent to the visit to the science center.

该项目的目的是为在全国范围内对科学中心在促进公众理解，态度和对科学的行为促进科学的作用和影响方面做出基本贡献。 为此，该研究项目将研究以下问题：1）参观科学中心展览会导致的科学理解，态度和行为的特定长期变化是什么？ 2）导致这些长期变化的因素是什么？ 3）科学中心访问与随后的增强教育经验之间有什么关系？ 这项研究将基于ILI在加利福尼亚科学中心进行的先前工作，旨在了解科学中心如何影响其社区。 这些研究集体被称为洛杉矶科学教育研究项目（Laser）。 一项激光研究中的参与者样本表示他们愿意参加随后的访谈。 这些访谈将旨在捕捉科学理解，态度，行为和其他非正式学习经历的小小的变化，并在访问科学中心之后的其他非正式学习经历。