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Creator:: Robichaux, Laia C.
Abstract:: In recent years, there has been an increased focus on identity and how it shapes visitor experience in free-choice learning (FCL) environments. Inquiry into how visitor's sex impacts identity and experience has yielded equivocal results. To date there has been no research into how the psychosocial construct of gender and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Laia C. Robichaux for

Creator:: Robichaux, Laia
Abstract:: Science is one of the fundamental building blocks of modern societies, and though some science topics are easily accepted by public audiences, others generate intense social controversy by challenging beliefs that are fundamental to a person’s, or group’s, identity. The Theory of Evolution is one of these “hot-button” issues, as...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: DISSERTATION OF Laia Robichaux for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Environmental Sciences presented

Creator:: Wyld, Jennifer N.
Abstract:: Human development researchers consider adolescence a rich time for interest development and identity exploration. A relatively new movement in the Free-Choice Learning (FCL) arena, the Maker movement, offers learners interest-driven, experiential, often collaborative, and process-oriented activities ranging from game design (computer-based and otherwise) and robotics, to sewing LEDs into clothing...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Roberta, Laia Robichaux, Jenny de la Hoz., and Jenny East as well as Dr. Laura Good and Dr. Katie

Creator:: Stofer, Kathryn A.
Abstract:: Data visualizations designed for academic scientists are not immediately meaningful to everyday scientists. Communicating between a specialized, expert audience and a general, novice public is non-trivial; it requires careful translation. However, more widely available visualization technologies and platforms, including new three-dimensional spherical display systems in schools and informal science education...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . Teresa Wolfe for editing and hockey. Laia Robichaux, for “running tech” for my defense. John Baek, for

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