Conceptual change research investigates the processes through which learners
substantially revise prior knowledge and acquire new concepts. Tracing its heritage to …

Natural selection is one of the central mechanisms of evolutionary change and is the
process responsible for the evolution of adaptive features. Without a working knowledge of …

Administrators of museums and other informal-learning centers often need to demonstrate,
in some tangible way, the effectiveness of their institutions as teaching tools. Practical …

User perspective and user studies have received noticeably little practical attention in
archives and archival science. The purpose of this article is to address the issues of …

This review examines how natural history museums (NHMs) can enhance learning and
engagement in science, particularly for school-age students. First, we describe the learning …

Given the reputation of the United States as a world leader in science, it is ironic that its
scientifi c establishment is experiencing a public backlash. The most acrimonious …

Museum visitors are an ideal population for assessing the persistence of the conceptual
barriers that make it difficult to grasp Darwinian evolutionary theory. In comparison with other …

In science, certain theories led to a paradigm shift in human being's approach to explain
nature, such as the theory of relativity, the quantum theory, and the theory of evolution. The …

Descriptions of problem-solution “co-evolution” either explicitly or implicitly draw an analogy
between processes of design and processes of biological evolution. Analogies of this kind …

We examined whether a single visit to an evolution exhibition contributed to conceptual
change in adult (n= 30), youth, and child (n= 34) museum visitors' reasoning about …