It has long been claimed that a better understanding of human or social dimensions of
environmental issues will improve conservation. The social sciences are one important …

This article received the “Implications of Research for Educational Practice” award at the
1995 meeting of the Association for the Education of Teachers in Science. The award is …

Understanding the visitor experience provides essential insights into how museums can
affect people's lives. Personal drives, group identity, decision-making and meaning-making …

The first book to take a" visitor's eye view" of the museum visit when it was first published in
1992, The Museum Experience revolutionized the way museum professionals understand …

Learning in the Museum examines major issues and shows how research in visitor studies
and the philosophy of education can be applied to facilitate a meaningful educational …

This paper discusses the evaluation of an informal science education project, The Birdhouse
Network (TBN) of the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. The Elaboration Likelihood Model …

In many developed countries of the world, pupil attitudes to school science decline
progressively across the age range of secondary schooling while fewer students are …

Young children's everyday scientific thinking often occurs in the context of parent-child
interactions. In a study of naturally occurring family conversation, parents were three times …

Current accounts of the development of scientific reasoning focus on individual children's
ability to coordinate the collection and evaluation of evidence with the creation of theories to …

Every learner in science is unique with diverse abilities. Teachers as well as educational
researchers have long recognized and used that understanding to varying degrees in their …