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Does Studying the Arts Engender Creative Thinking? Evidence for Near but Not Far Transfer

The authors seek to investigate whether studying the arts makes people more creative, and by extension, whether studying the arts builds creative thinking skills that can be deployed outside the arts. They do so through a series of meta-analyses examining existing literature, and find that the presence of an association between studying the arts and creative thinking depends on experimental design and the form of creativity measured.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Erik Moga Kristin Burger Lois Hetland Ellen Winner
resource research Informal/Formal Connections

Listening to Music Enhances Spatial-Temporal Reasoning: Evidence for the "Mozart Effect"

This article aims to discover evidence for the "Mozart Effect"--the observation that listening to music for brief periods temporarily enhances performance on spatial tasks.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Lois Hetland University of Illinois
resource research Informal/Formal Connections

Can Music Be Used To Teach Reading?

The author reviews the empirical literature testing that there is an association between instruction in music (usually school-based) and performance in reading (as measured by reading test scores or by general tests of verbal aptitude).
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TEAM MEMBERS: Ron Butzlaff University of Illinois
resource research Informal/Formal Connections

Music and Mathematics: Modest Support for the Oft-Claimed Relationship

This article is a report on three meta-analyses investigating the relationship between musics and mathematics.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Kathryn Vaughn University of Illinois
resource research Public Programs

A Tale from the Youth Field: Using Stories to Understand Community-Based Youth Programs

A vivid portrait of a little girl, her mother, and their experience at a neighborhood agency demonstrates how stories taken from the field can illustrate the power of peer education and motivate staff toward more inspired educational after school programming.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Sara Hill
resource research Public Programs

Passion & Practice

This essay presents one practitioner's journey into the field of after school education. It encourages practitioners to maintain their passion while seeking ways to further examine their practice in the pursuit of excellence.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Paul Whyte
resource research Public Programs

Impact of National Aquarium in Baltimore on Visitors' Conservation Attitudes, Behavior, and Knowledge

This study at the National Aquarium in Baltimore (NAIB) was conducted to assess four key aspects of the visitor experience: (1) incoming conservation knowledge, attitudes, and behavior of NAIB visitors; (2) patterns of use and interaction with exhibition components throughout the NAIB; (3) exiting conservation knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors of visitors; and (4) over time, how the NAIB experience altered or affected individuals' conservation knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors. Three hundred six visitors participated in the study, which was conducted from March through July, 1999. The
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TEAM MEMBERS: Institute for Learning Innovation John H Falk Leslie Adelman Sylvia James