This paper describes the role of formative evaluation in the development of a museum videodisk project entitled "Earth Over Time," which was sponsored by 15 museums of the Interactive Video Science Consortium. Targeted for 10- to 12-year-old children who have come to the museum with their parents, this earth science videodisk covers…

Education continues to operate as an enclave of elite culture and is battling for interest and respect with the mass media, technology, and the popular arts. These cultures must be brought together. Using the creative ideas generated by theme parks is an effective method of importing popular culture into the schools. Theme parks provide a total…

This document describes a school-museum-university collaborative model for the effective use of museum resources to develop scientific observation and thinking skills in minority children. Participants in the program were 268 Hispanic American fourth-graders, most of whom were from low socioeconomic backgrounds. Over a 12-week period the students,…

The Public Understanding of Science Program (PUOS) was formed in 1957 to help improve popular awareness and understanding of the role, activities, methods, and implications of science. The first section of this document highlights the role and purpose of the PUOS program, summarizing the need for informal science education, PUOS strategy, the…

A variety of promising new media are considered from the perspectives of their educational effectiveness, major features, and potential for educational utilization. In Part I, three categories of new media are specifically addressed: (1) broadcasting systems--satellite broadcasting, high-definition (high resolution) television, (multiplexed)…

Addressed to practitioners, donors, and policy makers, this document describes and compares responses to survey questions administered to top managers of resident theaters, art museums, symphony orchestras, and local arts agencies. Chapter 1 discusses research methodology and design. Organizations participating in the project included 102…

The purposes of this study were to describe and define nonschool education according to curricular elements, suggest relationships between school and museum curricular elements and perspectives, and construct a heuristic device for curriculum elements and perspectives that will guide further study. Using a curricular model from "A Study of…

The goals of the Richmond County (VA) Arts Program are: (1) to provide a comprehensive arts education program; (2) to increase creativity and self-esteem of art students (grades 6-12) and student awareness and general appreciation of the arts (grades 1-12); (3) to broaden teachers' instructional strategies and increase teachers' perceptions of the…

This sourcebook, intended for museum professionals, is an introduction to issues of lifelong learning, adult education, continuing education, and community education. It also provides a brief historical review and examples of museum programs for adults. These programs and services include bulletins and journals, slide-tape and video presentations,…

A comparative study of two types of media, a newspaper and a museum, reveals substantive differences in the ways each of these communications organizations alters the information which it presents to the public. Interviews conducted with spokespeople from the Washington Post and the Smithsonian Institution focused on three major theories of…

Twenty papers on multi-cultural aerospace education are presented and cover a wide range of topics, all dealing with some aspect of teaching aerospace education with or without applications to the teaching of minority students. Aerospace education as a motivating force in learning is the topic of two papers. Minorities in aerospace education, as a…

One of the twelve exemplary programs summarized in the Introduction to Right to Read's "Effective Reading Programs: Summaries of 222 Selected Programs" (CS001934), this program attempts to improve the reading skills of inner-city children, increase their aspirational levels, enhance their feelings of self-worth, and stimulate their…

English 41, an introductory humanities course taught at Honolulu Community College, presented a foundation in art, religion, architecture, and music. Many class members were employed adults, including policemen and firefighters, who often missed off-campus tours and lectures. Tutor tapes were used to offset the problem of absenteeism. A student…

The educational activities of the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, Illinois are described. (CP)

Discusses a special multicultural program, offered in a twelfth grade visual arts class which allowed Canadian students to learn about the pre-Columbian world of Mexico, and Central and South America . Through the study of pottery, students learned about the pre-Columbian cultures and created their own works which were displayed in a museum. (GEA)