SGER: A Meta-analysis of Visitor Time/Use in Museum Exhibitions

9552983 Serrell根据探索性研究指南的小额赠款，Serrell及其同事将进行“博物馆展览中游客时间/使用的荟萃分析。“这项研究将探讨长期以来围绕参观者在科学博物馆展览中花费时间（持续时间和分配）的问题。Serrell将进行此类最大规模的系统研究。使用大量的游客时间/使用的系统性观察，基线数据将开发，将回答一些关于游客在展览中的运动的基本问题。这项工作的基础是并大大扩展了目前从48个展览到100多个展览的观测数据库。这不是一个新的研究课题，但它是一个值得更多的关注，因为它还没有被系统地研究。研究人员通常认为花在任务上的时间和学习之间存在正相关关系，但除此之外，还有一些挑衅性的问题和未经证实的理论。许多问题缺乏足够的数据来得出结论。本研究将提供观察到的变量之间的统计相关性，并将基于目前不存在的大型方法学相似的数据库。

9552983 Serrell Under the Small Grants for Exploratory Research Guidelines, Serrell and Associates will do "A Meta-Analysis of Visitor Time/Use in Museum Exhibitions." The research will examine the long considered and debated questions revolving around visitors expenditure of their time (duration and allocation) in science museums exhibits. Serrell will undertake the largest, systematic study of its kind. Using a large number of systemically made observations of visitors time/use, baseline data will be developed that will answer some of the fundamental questions about visitor's movements in an exhibit. This work builds on and expands, considerably, the current data base of observations from 48 exhibits to over 100 exhibitions. This is not a new research topic but it is one that deserves more attention because it has not been studied systematically. Researchers generally assume a positive correlation between time spent on task and learning but beyond that there are a number of provocative questions and unverified theories. Many questions lack sufficient data to draw conclusions. This study will provide statistical correlations between variables observed and will be absed on large, methodologically similar database, which does not currently exist.