Learning Science Outside Of School

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present several reasons for the limited use of fieldwork in schools, including the following: "Fieldwork is an important part of biology as well as science and biology education".

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper explored how students' perceived family support for formal/informal science learning affected the link between their socioeconomic status and their experiences of informal science learning.

TL;DR: This paper examined the same 12 school-students making repeat visits over a three-year period to a science museum using a qualitative approach, analysing video recordings of museum visits and finding that the majority of repeat visits were made by the same students.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse the motivational and cognitive aspects related to AR in an informal learning context and propose a method to analyse learning using AR technology and the motivational aspects related with it.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the nature, conditions, and outcomes of student learning from an organized guided tour in the Deutsches Museum in Munich and found that the instructional methods that best support students' cognitive and affective learning as well as how students' motivational and emotional states influence their achievement were investigated.

TL;DR: In this paper, a study of programs to deepen families' scientific inquiry practices in a science museum setting was described, and two versions of the programs, called inquiry games, were compared to two control conditions.

TL;DR: This study explores visitors' and staff's perceptions of science communication in a traditional museum, revealing positive views on science's importance, but limited critical thinking and a need for more accessible and culturally relevant science exhibits.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the interaction between visitor motivation and in-museum visitor behavior using self-report methods to capture patterns of motivation that emerge across the data, which in this case were used to examine their relation to visit strategies as manifested by visitor pathways through the London Zoo.