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ERIC Number: EJ652850
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2002
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ISSN: ISSN-0036-8326
Science Centers and Scientific Literacy: Promoting a Relationship with Science.
Rennie, Leonie J.; Williams, Gina F.
Science Education, v86 n5 p706-26 Sep 2002
Explores the perceptions, ideas, and understanding about science of the staff and adult visitors to an interactive science center. Involves (n=63) staff and (n=102) visitors through interviews and a survey. Suggests that visitors to the science center have a positive experience and most of them recognize a change in the way they think about science. (Contains 27 references.) (Author/YDS)
Descriptors: Attitudes, Museums, Nature Centers, Science Education, Science Teaching Centers, Scientific Literacy
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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