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Summative Evaluation of Kentucky Historical Society’s HistoryMobile

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Research question: The evaluation focused on two primary questions that were measured through a control and treatment group design: (1) What are the effects of the HistoryMobile on 4th, 5th, and 8th grade students’ critical thinking, perspective, and knowledge? (2) How do HistoryMobile pre- and post-materials affect students’ experiences?
Data presentation:  Written report that includes findings presented in narrative with tables or figures and exemplary quotations from student interviews.
Principal evaluators: Randi Korn & Associates, Inc.
Site: Covington Independent Public School District; Covington, KY
Time span: March-August 2014
Contact: Trevor Jones (Trevor.Jones@ky.gov ) or Amanda Krantz (krantz@randikorn.com

National Dialogues on Immigration – International Coalition of Sites of Conscience

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(USA)
Research questions: 40 museum staff were trained in: 1) contemporary immigration information/ debates specific to the Southeast and the Southwest; 2) designing and facilitating dialogue programs to address issues in contexts of each region; and 3) evaluation of dialogue programs. The evaluation focused on the effectiveness of the training program and the dialogues.
Data presentation: Report
Principal researcher: Conny Graft, Research and Evaluation
Sites:
Southwest Region:
1.         Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum
2.         Simon Wiesenthal Center Museum of Tolerance
3.         Arizona State Museum
4.         National Hispanic Cultural Center
5.         Museum of International Folk Art
6.         New Mexico History Museum
7.         Museo Urbano
8.         Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation
Southeast Region:
1.         Arab American National Museum
2.         Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
3.         National Civil Rights Museum
4.         Levine Museum of the New South
5.         International Civil Rights Center and Museum
6.         Pauli Murray Project
7.         National Center for Civil and Human Rights
8.         Atlanta History Center
9.         Cultural Alliance of the South
Time span: Phase One: 2010 – 2013 and Phase Two: 2013 - 2015
Contact: Sarah Pharaon, Program Director, North America, International Sites of Conscience spharaon@sitesofconscience.org

Fort Normandeau Historic Research

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Research questions: In preparation for new interpretive exhibits and programs at Fort Normandeau, Michael Payne was contracted to look through the national archives in Ottawa for information about the North-west Mounted Police at the Red Deer Crossing (1885–1893) and for information about the Red Deer Indian Industrial (Residential) School (1893–1919).
Data presentation: It is in the form of a report to the Waskasoo Environmental Education Society (Red Deer, AB) and is interpreted at the Fort in the exhibits and programs
Principal researcher: Michael Payne (Ottawa)
Site: National Archives, Ottawa
Time span: now complete
Contact: Jim Robertson, Executive Director, director@waskasoopark.ca

Science Education Programming for Wichita State University (WSU) Child Development Center (CDC)

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(USA)
Evaluation Questions: This project studies the effects of the frequent application of informal STEM education practices delivered to preschool student education teams (student, teachers, and family) in academic settings and at home.
Data Presentation: Final data will be reported to funders and used to influence local and state decision makers and their attitudes toward STEM education, delivery methods, and funding
Principal Evaluator:  Kim McDowell, Ph.D., Center for Research and Evaluation Services (CRES), College of Education, WSU
Evaluation Sites: Control and intervention classrooms located at WSU CDC
Time Span:  2013-2015, year 1 data complete
Contact:  Laurel Zhang, Special Projects Manager. Exploration Place: The Sedgwick County Science and Discovery Center Laurel.Zhang@exploration.org

STEM Engagement K-5 Study: Year 1

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(USA)
Evaluation Questions: This project studies the effects of the weekly application of informal STEM education practices delivered to student education teams (student, teachers, and family) in academic settings and at home, and the effects of weekly informal education modeling on the confidence and attitude of classroom teachers toward STEM subjects.
Data Presentation:  Final data will be reported to funder and used to influence local and state decision makers and their attitudes toward STEM education, delivery methods, and funding.
Principal Evaluator: Kim McDowell, Ph.D., Center for Research and Evaluation Services (CRES), College of Education, WSU
Evaluation Sites: Intervention - Hyde International Studies/ Communications Magnet
Elementary; Control – Peterson Elementary
Time Span:  2013-2019, follows school’s kindergarten cohort through first 6 years of school with potential to extend the study as funding allows
Contact: Laurel Zhang, Special Projects Manager, Exploration Place: The Sedgwick County Science and Discovery Center Laurel.Zhang@exploration.org

Science Education Project for Sumner County School Districts, 2013 – 2014

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Evaluation Questions: This project studies the marriage of informal STEM and formal education communities delivering weekly in-class STEM programs in an effort to create a data-driven, replicable collaboration model for implementing new academic state-level standards (KCCRS-Science) for science. The study tracks student and teacher attitudes and confidence levels in STEM subjects.
Data Presentation: Final data will be used to influence local and state decision makers and their
attitudes toward STEM education, delivery methods, and funding.
Principal Evaluator:      Kim McDowell, Ph.D., Center for Research and Evaluation Services (CRES), College of Education, WSU
Evaluation Sites: 2013-2014 Intervention – All USD 263 and USD 357 3rd and 4th grade classes; Control – All USD 359 3rd and 4th grade classes
2014-2015 Intervention – All 3rd and 4th grade classes in USD 263,353, 356,357, 358, 359, 360, 509; Control – TBD (USD 470)
Time Span: 2013-2015, year 1 data complete
Contact:  Laurel Zhang, Special Projects Manager Exploration Place: The Sedgwick County Science and Discovery Center Laurel.Zhang@exploration.org

The Softalk Apple Project

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(USA)
Research:  Softalk magazine (9,300+ pages, 48-issues, 1980-84) chronicles the impact of the Microcomputer Revolution on all areas of society. Project: Scan, OCR, crowdsource text curation, produce human-readable PDF editions of each issue, and create a CIDOC-CRM-friendly Open Data "FactMiners Fact Cloud" companion database for use in education and research.  
Data Presentation:  1) STAP Archive: On-line web-friendly and archival-quality scans of each magazine (whole issue and individual pages) in PDF format PLUS a curated-OCR digital text/image repository of all content - respecting the complex document structure of the magazine and stored in metamodel-constrained graph database - for "fact mining" annotation by; 2) the #LODLAM repository: the FactMiners' Fact Cloud database companion.
Principal Researchers: Timlynn Babitsky & Jim Salmons
Research Site(s): On-line at www.SoftalkApple.com
Time Span: ongoing
Contact: Timlynn Babitsky via Archive@SoftalkApple.com

FactMiners.org

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Research:  Design, development, and evolution of an Open Source software platform and API programming interfaces to support the FactMiners social-game community and its ecosystem. FactMiners are Citizen-Scientists/Historians engaged in exploratory-learning using library, museum, and archive (LAM) on-line digital collections. While learning, players get points and badges; LAM hosts get a #LOD "Fact Cloud" for education and research.
Data Presentation: Using an embedded metamodel subgraph design pattern, we are developing a DSL (Domain-Specific Language) extension of the CIDOC-CRM for fine-grained #LODLAM collection and content management with a built-in social-gaming micro-task workflow subsystem.
Principal Researchers: Jim Salmons & Timlynn Babitsky
Research Site(s): On-line at www.FactMiners.org
Time Span: on-going
Contact: Jim Salmons via Developers@FactMiners.org

Engineering Connections

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(USA)
Evaluation questions: With a grant from Xcel Energy, The Works, an engineering-focused, hands-on museum, sought to identify 1) the outcomes and indicators for engineering-based classroom workshops, family programs, teacher professional development, and partnerships with multiple school districts outside the Twin Cities metro; and 2) what do indicators look like in the field?
Data presentation: technical report to funder with photographs and video clips.
Principal evaluator: Cheryl Kessler, Principal, Blue Scarf Consulting, LLC.
Sites: Multiple schools in 16 districts outside the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area as well as four within the metro area.
Time span:: September 2014-August 2014.

Crystal teeth and skeleton eggs: Snapshots of young children’s experiences in a natural history museum

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(UK)
Research questions: 1) What are young children experiencing in a natural history museum. 2) How can their experiences be accessed? The research uses children’s digital photography as the basis for interviews to explore the experiences of children aged 4 and 5 years, visiting the museum with their families.
Data presentation: The data will be presented as a doctoral thesis
Principal researcher:  Elee S. Kirk, School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester, UK
Site: The research was conducted at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, UK 
Time span: The data was collected out in 2011 and the research will be complete in 2014
Contact: elee@eleekirk.com , website: www.eleekirk.com , Twitter: @eleekirk

MUSED

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(Italy)
Project Description: MusEd is a platform for sharing multimedia cultural content inside the classroom for allowing teachers to make multimedia lessons. Repository of Linked open data resources of Museums and Europeana Digital Library and annotation tool where provided to teachers and students who can reuse and re-contextualized cultural heritage content in an educational environment.
Principal Researcher: Vincenza Ferrara, Direttore Laboratorio E-learning, didattica museale e apprendimento scolastico, DIGILAB - Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca e Servizi Università "La Sapienza"
Time span: The first phase of project is completed at 31 may 2014. The second is ongoing

Geffrye Museum Centenary Celebrations Youth Heritage Project

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(UK)
Project Description: I have gained hands-on experience of working in a Learning Department. I have conducted my own research into the museum’s historic building http://www.geffrye-museum.org.uk/aboutus/press/releases/centenary-celebrations/ to create an online exhibition resource http://bit.ly/1uzBKXi and produced 4 films for the exhibition: http://bit.ly/1s9wnts , http://bit.ly/WR6gNz , http://bit.ly/1nYSTpB , http://bit.ly/1nYSUdk
Intern: Jessica Starns
Supervisors: Rachael Crofts, Vanessa Weibel
Site: The Geffrye Museum of the Home, London, UK
Time span: 6 months

Brief evaluation of the Insights El Paso Science Center relocated to the abandoned Alamo Elementary School’s building

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(USA)
Project description: I focused in a Fire Preventive Program’s draft since the place was not built for the intended new use. I searched dozen of files boxes for elusive inventories of the exhibits and plausible collections. Suggested and proposed a condition report to collect the exhibits and collections data.
Intern: Valente Pancho Saenz, Interdisciplinary doctorate student at NMSU in Las Cruces, NM.
Supervisor: Daniel Carey-Whalen, Interim Executive Director of the Insights El Paso Science Center.
Site: The special events area of the Alamo Elementary School’s building at the City of El Paso, Texas.
Time span: 50 hours from Wednesday May 14 to Thursday June 5, 2014.
Contact: Valente Pancho Saenz. valente.saenz@gmail.com .

Virtual Visit to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

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(USA)
Project Description: As part of her School Partnership Internship, Cami authored a PreK-12 curriculum guide to be used with ISGM's Google Art Project. To create a rich and engaging virtual visit, Cami developed pre- and post-virtual visit activities aligned with CCSS, along with journal prompts to be completed along the way. 
Intern: Cami Gordon
Supervisor: Michelle Grohe and Sara Egan
Site: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA, USA
Time span: September 2013-May 2014
Contacts: Cami Gordon, crg296@mail.harvard.edu ; Michelle Grohe,mgrohe@isgm.org ; Sara Egan, segan@isgm.org

Creston Interactive Education Initiative

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(Canada)
Project Description: The goal of our project is to develop, promote, and facilitate multigenerational bridging; along with active, engaging, educational, and fun interpretational activities/workshops for all age groups.
Intern: Alyssa Jackson
Supervisor: Tammy Hardwick (Manager)
Site: Creston Museum (small) 4 building 2 shed indoor/outdoor, Creston, BC, Canada
Time span: One Year
Contacts: Tammy Hardwick, Manager mail@creston.museum.bc.ca ; Alyssa Jackson-Program Coordinator museumprograms@telus.net 

Mount, Music and Memory

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Project Description: Integrating music into Alzheimer's Programing that connect people with memory loss to the work of William Sydney Mount and the collections at the Long Island Museum (LIM)
Intern: Eileen Palmer, Graduate Candidate, Harvard University 
Supervisor: Lisa Unander, Director of Education LIM
Site: The Long Island Museum, Stony Brook, NY
Time Span: Spring 2015

Calling All Families! [Website Initiative]

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(USA)
Project Description: In order to build, expand, and welcome the Hammer Museum’s burgeoning family audience, I wrote the content for a new family website. The inventive before, during, and after-visit activities allow families to prepare for what they’ll encounter and provide ideas and instruments to continue making connections with the Hammer and contemporary art.
Intern: Tracy Navichoque, Getty Multicultural Intern
Supervisors: Theresa Sotto, Jackie Hwang, Zoe Silverman
Site: Hammer Museum http://hammer.ucla.edu/
Time Span: June 24, 2014-August 31, 2014

Try it Out Space: Interpretation

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(USA)
Project Description: The Interpretation Department developed two sets of interview protocol for visitors who are new to programs and those who frequently participate. The questions aimed to ascertain what these visitors know about daily programs, how they find out about them, and what they hope to gain from them.
Intern: Allyson Ferrari, Master of Arts Candidate in Museum Studies, San Francisco State University
Supervisors: Rachael Matthews, Carey Meier
Site: The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis
Project Time Span: June 15 - August 8, 2014

Autism Awareness in Education Programs

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(USA)
Project Description: Focusing on access programs, my summer internship allowed me to assist with an Autism Awareness Family Celebration and the Hands-On Art Camp for Kids with Autism and help develop a self-guided tour and modifiable social story for visitors to make the museum a more approachable and comfortable space.
Intern: Annette Becker
Supervisors: Amanda Blake, Head of Family, Access, and School Experiences at the Dallas Museum of Art, and Dr. Laura Evans, Assistant Professor of Art Education at the University of North Texas
Site: Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, USA
Time Span: May - August 2014
Contact: Annette Becker at annette.marie.becker@gmail.com

Buttonville Past and Present: Virtual Exhibition Project

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(Canada)
Project Description: Funded by the RBC Internship for Emerging Professionals Program, and using our collection, school files and oral history interviews, the intern created an online exhibit about living and going to school in past and present Buttonville. The intern created a template so that schools can develop their own exhibits.
Intern:  Ellen Hlozan
Supervisor: Jan Emonson
Site: York Region District School Board Museum & Archives, Ontario, Canada
Time Span: April-August 2014
Contact info: jan.emonson@yrdsb.ca   905. 470. 6119
Keywords: Virtual Exhibition, York Region, One-room Schoolhouse, Education, 19th century
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