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Patient Internet Use for Health Information at Three Urban Primary Care Clinics

This study demonstrates that a medical crisis is a strong motivator for adult free choice learning online.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Suzanne Dickerson Amber Reinhart Thomas Feeley Rakesh Bidani Ellen Rich Vinod Garg Charles Hershey
resource research Informal/Formal Connections

Epistemological Appropriation in One High School Student's Learning in Cooperative Education

In this study, detailed observations and interviews from a high school student's semester-long cooperative (co-op) placement in a dental practice are used to exemplify Hung's theoretical approach to understanding situated learning. Using Hung's theory of epistemological appropriation in an analysis of the co-op supervisor's regulatory behaviors (scaffolding, modeling, and coaching) and of the novice's corresponding regulatory behaviors (submitting, mirroring, and constructing) helped to explain the developments in this student's learning, actions, and beliefs. In contrast to the progression
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TEAM MEMBERS: Peter Chin Karin Steiner Bell Hugh Munby Nancy Hutchinson
resource research Public Programs

Youth-Adult Partnerships: A Powerful Force for Community Change

This article describes Youth as Resources, a nationwide initiative involves youth and adults as equal partners in projects that improve community life. Some examples of the projects include the Rural Renewable Energy Alliance, which engages teenagers to install solar heating in low income homes, and the Haydenville Preservation Committee, which implemented neighborhood cleanup and landscaping projects in rural Ohio.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Shaun Butcher
resource research Public Programs

A Small-Scale Opinion Survey of Non-Museum Visitors at Two University Museums in Hong Kong

This paper describes findings from a Ph.D. study of visitors, particularly non-museum visitors, at two university art museums in Hong Kong. This study contributes to the literature on museum education in Hong Kong, which is a relatively new area of study in Asia. This study is also the first museum visitor survey done on a university population in Hong Kong. It includes the questionnaire mailed to participants in the study.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Anne S. H. Lam
resource evaluation Exhibitions

It's a Nano World - Findings from a Summative Study

Nanoscale science and engineering study and create materials and devices on the molecular scale. The Nanobiotechnology Center, a National Science Foundation supported Science and Technology Center, collaborated with Ithaca, New York's Sciencenter, a hands-on museum, and Painted Universe, Inc. an exhibition design-and-fabrication team, to create It's a NanoWorld, a 3,000 square-foot, hands-on traveling exhibition. Edu, Inc., an external evaluation group, led front-end research and formative evaluation to guide and refine development of the exhibition. Summative evaluation investigated visitors'
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TEAM MEMBERS: Douglas Spencer Cornell University Victoria Angelotti Sciencenter