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Families' Engagement in Making Activities Related to Aerospace Engineering: Designing for Parents as Learning Partners in Pop-Up Makerspaces
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Zimmerman, Heather Toomey; Grills, Katharine Ellen; McKinley, Zachary; Kim, Soo Hyeon – Information and Learning Sciences, 2022
Purpose: The researchers conducted a collective case study to investigate how families engaged in making activities related to aerospace engineering in six pop-up makerspace programs held in libraries and one museum. The purpose of this paper is to support families' engagement in design tasks and engineering thinking, three types of discussion…
Descriptors: Aerospace Education, Family Involvement, Shared Resources and Services, Libraries
Learning about Spatial and Temporal Scale: Current Research, Psychological Processes, and Classroom Implications
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Cheek, Kim A.; LaDue, Nicole D.; Shipley, Thomas F. – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2017
Geoscientists analyze and integrate spatial and temporal information at a range of scales to understand Earth processes. Despite this, the concept of scale is ill defined and taught unevenly across the K-16 continuum. This literature review focuses on two meanings of scale: one as the magnitude of the extent of a dimension and the other as a…
Descriptors: Earth Science, Spatial Ability, Time, Scientific Concepts
Physics Bachelor's One Year after Degree: Data from the Degree Recipient Follow-Up Survey for the Classes of 2011 and 2012 Combined. Focus On
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Tesfaye, Casey Langer; Mulvey, Patrick – Statistical Research Center of the American Institute of Physics, 2014
Each fall, the Statistical Research Center conducts the "Survey of Enrollments and Degrees," which asks physics and astronomy departments to provide information concerning the number of students they have enrolled and counts of recent degree recipients. In connection with this survey, the names and contact information for their recent…
Descriptors: Physics, Bachelors Degrees, College Graduates, Graduate Surveys
Science Center and Attitude
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Daneshamooz, Saeed; Alamolhodaei, Hassan; Darvishian, Saeed; Daneshamooz, Soniya – Educational Research and Reviews, 2013
The project team gathered data with the assistance of Recreational and Cultural Organization of Mashhad Municipality, Organization of Mashhad Municipality and Science and Astronomy Science Center of Mashhad Municipality, Khorasan Razavi, Islamic Republic of Iran. This paper discusses the effect of science center on attitude of students who visit…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Teaching Centers, Scientific Attitudes, High School Students
Academic Research Instruments: Expenditures 1993, Needs 1994.
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Arena, Carolyn B. – 1996
The National Survey of Academic Research Instruments and Instrumentation Needs is a congressionally mandated program that collects data concerning scientific research instruments and the academic departments and facilities in which they are located. This report analyzes overall instrumentation issues and trends in all the fields covered by the…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry
Affirmative Action in Science Departments: A Challenge for Higher Education.
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Marcus, Laurence R. – 1976
As part of a study of the implementation of affirmative action in academic affairs at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, interviews were conducted with the heads of ten of the eleven departments and programs of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics (FNSM). The data received were combined with written data available in…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Astronomy, Biochemistry, Botany