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K. C. Busch; Lynn Chesnut; Kathryn Stevenson; Lincoln Larson; Allison Black-Maier; Charles Yelton; Darrell Stover – International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 2024
This paper reports on the results of a research-practice partnership that included a U.S. university research team and a state-funded grants program that supports informal science education. The goal of the 2-year partnership was to develop an empirically-tested model for collaboration and capacity-building (CCB) in support of collective…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Informal Education, Science Education, Science Teaching Centers
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Falk, John H.; Storksdieck, Martin – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2010
Most people visit a science center in order to satisfy specific leisure-related needs; needs which may or may not actually include science learning. Falk proposed that an individual's identity-related motivations provide a useful lens through which to understand adult free-choice science learning in leisure settings. Over a 3-year period the…
Descriptors: Science Education, Prior Learning, Data Collection, Data Analysis