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Driven to Discover Summative Evaluation Report

The University of Minnesota Extension (UME) contracted Garibay Group to conduct a summative evaluation of the Driven to Discover program (often referred to as D2D by youth participants and adult leaders) to assess how adult leaders in Informal Science Education (ISE) settings used the curriculum and citizen science projects as conduits to engage youth in scientific inquiry.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Karen Oberhauser Cecilia Garibay
resource evaluation Media and Technology

The Handheld Signing Math & Science Dictionaries for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Museum Visitors Research Project Field Test Evaluation Report: Family Visitors

With this 3-year project, TERC and the Museum of Science (MoS) Boston are studying how family and school visitors integrate iPod Touch versions of the Signing Science Pictionary (SSP), Signing Science Dictionary (SSD), and Signing Math Dictionary (SMD) into their museum experience and the impact of dictionary use. This report focuses on family visitors. Each dictionary includes more than 700 standards-based science or mathematics terms. The SSP (funded in part by grants from the Shapiro Family Foundation and the U. S. Department of Education, Grant #H327A080040) is intended for children ages 5
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TEAM MEMBERS: TERC Inc Judy Vesel Bill Nave Tara Robillard
resource evaluation Media and Technology

The Handheld Signing Math & Science Dictionaries for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Museum Visitors Research Project: A Sub-study Conducted with Families at the Harvard Museum of Natural History

With this project, TERC and the Museum of Science (MoS) Boston are studying how family and school visitors integrate iPod Touch versions of the Signing Science Pictionary (SSP), Signing Science Dictionary (SSD), and Signing Math Dictionary (SMD) into their museum experience and the impact of dictionary use. This report focuses on a sub-study involving family visitors to the Harvard Museum of Natural History (HMNH). Prior to this sub-study, TERC and the MoS conducted a primary study that examined use of the dictionaries at the MoS. Findings from this study showed the following: (1) Visitors
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TEAM MEMBERS: TERC Inc Judy Vesel Bill Nave Tara Robillard
resource evaluation Exhibitions

Life on Earth Evaluation Report

Life on Earth is interactive software installed as a museum touchtable exhibit that uses data about over seventy thousand (70,000) species from several databases to help visitors explore and deepen their understanding of biodiversity, evolution and common ancestry, and the history of life on earth (DeepTree/ FloTree). Some installations also include a smaller exhibit that poses puzzle challenges about evolutionary relationships among species (Build-a-Tree (BAT)). The exhibit was installed at four natural history museums across the U.S. – the Harvard Museum of Natural History (Cambridge, MA)
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TEAM MEMBERS: Harvard Univesity Jim Hammerman Amy Spiegel Jonathan Christiansen