This paper discusses cognitive science research, specifically how people learn and learning as a transition from novice to expert within a field of knowledge. The authors explore some aspects of this model and ways in which it might be applied to science learning in museum settings.
This paper discusses the influence of mutual communication on exhibit development and evaluation. It discusses how mutual communication techniques helped developers at the Impression 5 Science Museum see the production of "SPIN," a traveling hands-on exhibit about rotational motion, through the eyes of the visitor and imagine ways of generating visitor-object and visitor-developer dialogues in the exhibit.
In this article, Jacksonville State University's Stephen Bitgood discusses an evaluation study of a "Falling Feather" gravity-themed exhibit at a science museum. Bitgood shares key findings from the evaluation, which revealed several problems with the exhibit.