PROFILE

Joe E Heimlich

Director of Research, COSI and Professor Emeritus Ohio State University

Lifelong Learning Group/COSI

Projects

Collaborative Research: Learning In and From the Environment through Multiple Ways of Knowing (LIFEways) Building Supports Towards a Useful, Usable, and In-Use Framework of Professional Competencies in the Informal STEM Learning Field The Circuit: A Platform for Increasing Access to, Deepening and Researching patterns of Family and Adult Participation in Informal Science

Connecting Families to Nature through Birds: A Reinterpretation of the Wings of the World Exhibit at Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden Data Visualization Literacy: Research and Tools that Advance Public Understanding of Scientific Data STEM Matters: Investigating the Confluence of Visitor and Institutional Learning Agendas Pathways: Sense-Making of Big Data Reinterpreting Jungle Trails to Engage Families Full-Scale Development: National Center for Blind Youth in Science Implementing Program Theory Across Informal Environmental Education Providers -- A Planning Grant Collaborative Research: An Evidence-based Informal STEM Learning (ISL) Professional Framework

Research

2023 AISL Awardee Mini-Poster: 1906998 Building Supports Memo Report: Takeaways from Listening Sessions Notes on Distance Learning for Informal Settings White Paper #2: A literature review of best practice considerations for distance education

An influence among influences: the perceived influence contribution scale development and use Effect of Research and Mentoring on Underrepresented Youths' STEM Persistence Into College Work It Out! Application-based Tech as Fitness Circuits for Cultural Institutions Engaging in their Local Ecology Redefining Professionalism for the Informal STEM Learning Field Poster: Becoming an ISL Professional - Where did you start? How did you get there? How can the ISL Framework help to shape the field? Poster: What will it take to be a professional in the new ISL Field? Aloisio et al (2018), Pre-college urban ecology research mentoring: promoting broader participation in the field of ecology for an urban future Informal STEM DACUM Competency Profiles: Verification Report Aligning Your Agendas with Those of Your Visitors: Lessons Learned from Zoos and Aquariums 2019 AISL PI Meeting Poster: Why Zoos and Aquariums Matter (WZAM3) Professional Learning Framework: DACUM Panels. Workshop Feedback Professional Learning Frameworks: A short review of the literature. An Evidence-based Framework for Professional Learning Evaluator Perspective - Returning to the informal: Changing questions and changing assumptions Project TRUE Year 1 Research Report Project TRUE Year 1 Poster Poster - Collaborative Research: An Evidence-based Informal STEM Learning (ISL) Professional Framework The AZA Framework for Zoo and Aquarium Social Science Research Changing minds? Reassessing outcomes in free‐choice environmental education. Giant screen film and science learning in museums Exploring the Use of New Media in Environmental Education Contexts: Introducing Visitors' Technology Use in Zoos Model Three Responses to Cheryl Meszaros' Evil "Whatever" Interpretation Using Identity-Related Visit Motivations as a Tool for Understanding Adult Zoo and Aquarium Visitors' Meaning-Making Critique of a Critique: Do Zoos and Aquariums Promote Attitude Change in Visitors? Why Zoos and Aquariums Matter: Assessing the Impact of a Visit to a Zoo or Aquarium

Evaluation

WZAM3 Method and Instrumentation Understanding and Improving Data Visualization Literacy: Compiling Front-end Evaluation and Partial Summative Evaluation Data NFB SABER Year Two Evaluation Report