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Appendix A: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff
Appendix A: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff
Pages 315-321
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. He is a board member of the International Society of the Learning Sciences and the Board on Science Education of the National Research Council.
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Sue Allen is director of visitor research and evaluation at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, where she oversees all aspects of visitor studies, education research, and evaluation on all projects involving the museum's public space. She was the in-house evaluation coordinator for the California Framework Project, which explored the roles that a science museum can play in assist ing science education reform in the schools.
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She was assistant director of environmental research in the Division of Science and Research of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, where she was responsible for setting the research agenda for state environmental issues. She was a recipient of competitive grant funding from the National Science Foundation and the New Jersey State Department of Education for informal science, teacher enhancement, and curriculum development projects in science and technology.
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is on the staff of the Board on Science Education. At the National Research Council, he serves as a program officer for the Committee on Learning Science in Informal Environments and the Committee on Understanding and Improving K-12 Engineering Educa tion.
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Dale McCreedy is director of the Gender and Family Learning Programs Department at The Franklin Institute. She is also the program director of multiple National Science Foundation–funded collaborations, two with Girl Scouts of the U.S.A., one with the School District of Philadelphia, one with the Free Library of Philadelphia, and one with the Institute for Learning Innovation.
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Her recent research includes case studies of tech nology use and learning in informal settings, analyses of science discourse and communication, and studies of representational technology in learning science and mathematics. She is especially interested in how various types of social interactions and modes of communication support or detract from students' participation in learning activities and how this affects issues of equity.
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He is currently the principal investigator of the medical informatics research initiative in the College of Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State and the research director of its involvement in Apple Computer's Digital Campus Initiative. He received a Faculty Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation in 2000 to begin a research agenda around visual learning.
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