Broad Implementation: Creating Communities Of Learners For Informal Cognitive Science Education

广泛实施：为非正式认知科学教育创建学习者社区

• 批准号: 1113648
• 负责人: Rebecca Kipling
• 金额: $ 299.53万
• 依托单位: Museum of Science
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-09-01 至 2017-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1113648&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Broad; Implementation; Creating; Communities; Learners

Boston's Museum of Science (MOS), with Harvard as its university research partner, is extending, disseminating, and further evaluating their NSF/ISE-funded (DRL-0714706) Living Laboratory model of informal cognitive science education. In this model, early-childhood researchers over the past three years have both conducted research in the MOS Discovery Center for young children and interacted with visitors during the museum's operating hours about what their research is finding about child development and cognition. Several methods of interacting with adult visitors were designed and evaluated, including the use of "research toys" as exhibits. Summative evaluation of the original work indicated positive outcomes on all targeted audiences - adults with young children, museum educators, and researchers. The project is now broadening the implementation of the model by establishing three additional museum Hub Sites, each with university partners - Maryland Science Center (with Johns Hopkins), Madison Children's Museum (with University of Wisconsin, Madison), and Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (with Lewis & Clark College). The audiences continue to include researchers (along with graduate and undergraduate students); museum educators; and adults with children visiting the museums. Deliverables consist of: (1) establishment of and activities at the Hub sites and continued improvement of the MOS site, (2) a virtual Hub portal for the four sites and others around the country, (3) tool-kit resources for both museums and scientists, and (4) professional symposia at all sites. Intended outcomes are: (1) improve museum educators' and museum visiting adults' understanding of cognitive/developmental psychology and research and its application to raising their children, (2) improve researchers' ability to communicate with the public and to conduct their research at the museums, and (3) increase interest in, knowledge about, and application of this model throughout the museum community and grow a network of such collaborations.

波士顿科学博物馆（MOS）与哈佛作为其大学研究合作伙伴，正在扩展，传播和进一步评估其NSF/ISE资助（DRL-0714706）非正式认知科学教育的生活实验室模型。 在这种模型中，过去三年来，早期研究人员都在MOS发现中心进行了研究，并在博物馆的营业时间与访客进行了互动，以了解他们的研究对儿童发展和认知的发现。 设计和评估了几种与成人访客互动的方法，包括使用“研究玩具”作为展览。 对原始工作的总结评估表明对所有有针对性的受众都取得了积极的成果 - 成年人有年幼的孩子，博物馆教育者和研究人员。 该项目现在通过建立另外三个博物馆枢纽站点来扩大模型的实施，每个网站都与大学合作伙伴 - 马里兰州科学中心（与约翰·霍普金斯大学），麦迪逊儿童博物馆（威斯康星大学，麦迪逊大学）和俄勒冈大学科学与工业博物馆（与刘易斯和克拉克学院有关）。观众继续包括研究人员（以及研究生和本科生）；博物馆教育工作者；和有孩子的成年人参观博物馆。 可交付成果包括：（1）在枢纽站点建立和活动，并持续改进MOS站点，（2）为四个站点和全国其他其他场所的虚拟集线器门户，（3）博物馆和科学家的工具KIT资源，以及（4）在所有地点的专业介绍。 预期的结果是：（1）改善博物馆教育者和博物馆访问成人对认知/发展心理学和研究的理解及其在抚养子女方面的应用，（2）提高研究人员与公众与公众进行沟通并在博物馆进行研究的能力，（3）在整个博物馆社区和社区中提高对此类模型的兴趣，并提高此类模型的知识，并在此类似的社区中提高了此类社区的培训。