Kevin Crowley

Associate Dean and Professor

School of Education, University of Pittsburgh

Pennsylvania, United States

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"Seek and ye shall find": How curiousity engenders discovery

A Learning Research Agenda for Natural History Institutions

A Research Agenda for Learning in Natural History Settings

Approaching art education as an ecology: Exploring the role of museums

Are the Fields of Informal Science Education and Science Communication Adjacent or Connected? A Bibliometric Study of Research Journals from 2012 to 2016

Building Informal Science Education: Context and Synthesis

Building Informal Science Education: Supporting Evaluation of Exhibitions and Programs with an informalscience.org Research Network

Building Islands of Expertise in Everyday Family Activity

Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education (2012-2015)

Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education (2016-2021)

Challenging Beliefs, Practices, and Content: How Museum Educators Change

Click!: Pre-Teen Girls and a Mixed Reality Role-Playing Game for Science and Technology

Climate & Urban Systems Partnership

Cognitive evaluation of human-robot systems: A method for analyzing cognitive change in human-robot systems

Collaborating Across the University/Informal Boundary: Broader Impacts Through Informal Science Education

Collaborative Research: Studying the Malleability and Impact of Science Learning Activation

Constraints on Learning in Nonprivileged Domains

Designing for Science: Implications from Everyday, Classroom, and Professional Settings

Elementary, Secondary and Informal Education: Conceptualizing and Assessing Web-based Informal Science Learning

Emerging research communities and the World Wide Web: Analysis of a Web-based resource for the field of museum learning

Energy, Environment and Social Learning Network: Enhancing Opportunities for Learning Using an Earth System Science Framework

Establishing a learning network to connect museums, scientists and rural communities to discuss scientific information to inform transdisciplinary problem-solving.

Everyday activity and the development of scientific thinking

Explanation and Generalization in Young Children's Strategy Learning

Field-Driven Agendas for Research and Development Presentation Slides

Flexible Strategy Use in Young Children's Tic-Tac-Toe

From acquisition to inquiry: Supporting informal educators through iterative implementation of practice

From Everyday to Scientific Observation: How Children Learn to Observe the Biologist's World

From living to virtual: Learning from museum objects

From teachers to testers: How parents talk to novice and expert children in a natural history museum

Grant Description: Learning to See, Seeing to Learn

How parent explanation changes what children learn from everyday scientific thinking

Identifying and Supporting Shared Scientific Reasoning in Parent-Child Interactions

INCLUDES: Achieving Scale for Inclusion in STEM Synthesis Report

Informal learning organizations as part of an educational ecology: Lessons from collaboration across the formal-informal divide

Informal Science Education Resource Center (ISERC)

Informal STEM Learning: A Roadmap for Research and Practice

InformalScience.org: Building a Web Community for Informal Science

Intelligent Science Exhibits: Transforming Hands-on Exhibits into Mixed-Reality Learning Experiences

Learning Conversations in Museums

Learning in Context: Digital games and young black men

Learning to Make in Museums: The Role of Maker Educators

Learning to See, Seeing to Learn: A Sociotechnical System Supporting Taxonomic Identification Activities in Volunteer-Based Water Quality Biomonitoring

Long term human-robot interaction: The personal exploration rovers and museum docents

Making & Learning Research Meeting

Making Sense of Making: Defining Learning Practices in MAKE Magazine

Making the Case for ISE Media: Examining existing media evaluations posted to InformalScience.org

Museum as Learning Laboratory: Developing and using a practical theory of informal learning; and Bringing research and practice together

Museum Learning As Conversational Ellaboration: A Proposal to Capture, Code, and Analyze Talk in Museums

Objects of learning, objects of talk: Changing minds in museums

Parent Beliefs about Teaching and Learning in a Children's Museum

Parent Explanations During Museum Visits: Gender Differences In How Children Hear Informal Science

Parents Explain More Often to Boys Than to Girls During Shared Scientific Thinking

Remake Making: Understanding Adoption and Adaptation of Facilitated Making in Libraries

Responding to the Gender Gap in Informal Science Education

Shared Scientific Thinking in Everyday Parent-Child Activity

Smart Spaces for Making: Networked Physical Tools to Support Process Documentation and Learning

Strategy Discovery as a Competitive Negotiation between Metacognitive and Associative Mechanisms

The Case for Informal Science Education

The City as Learning Lab: Spreading Technological Fluency Through Creative Robotics

The Microgenetic Method

The Natural History Museum: Taking on a Learning Agenda

The Palo Alto Convening on Assessment in Informal Settings Synthesis Report

The Personal Exploration Rover: Educational assessment of a robotic exhibit for informal learning venues

The rhythms of scientific thinking: A study of collaboration in an earthquake microworld

The Robotic Autonomy Mobile Robotics Course: Robot design, curriculum design, and educational assessment

Three Responses to Cheryl Meszaros' Evil "Whatever" Interpretation

Updates from the Field: Meeting on Assessment in Informal Science Education

Updates from the Field: Research + Practice Workshop at NARST

We Always Spend Time Together on Sundays: Grandparents and Informal Learning.

What is STEM Engagement?

What is STEM Identity?

What is STEM Interest?

Where Informal STEM Education and Science Communication Meet: Two Studies Chart the Intersection of ISE and SciComm

Working with a robot: Exploring relationship potential in human-robot systems

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