Joe E Heimlich
Biographic Data
| ID | 3080938 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joe E Heimlich |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joe E |
| FAMILY NAME | Heimlich |
| SIGNATURE | HEIMLICH J E |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2586-5732 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Using Embedded Assessment to Evaluate Science Center Theatre
While some people claim museum theatre is a powerful tool that can affect visitors' attitudes and inspire learning, others continue to question if its role is education, entertainment, or some combination of the two. In light of these mixed perceptions of museum theatre, there is ongoing demand for evidence that these shows promote meaningful learning. One method for measuring outcome achievement in these nontraditional theatre settings is embedd…
Zoos and Aquariums in the Public Mind
Effects of Research and Mentoring on Underrepresented Youths’ STEM Persistence Into College
Background: Authentic research experiences and mentoring have positive impacts on fostering STEM engagement among youth from backgrounds underrepresented in STEM. Programs applying an experiential learning approach often incorporate one or both of these elements, however, there is little research on how these factors impact youth's STEM engagement during the high school to college transition. Purpose: Using a longitudinal design, this study explo…
An influence among influences: The perceived influence contribution scale development and use
Zoos and Aquariums in the Public Mind
Redefining professionalism for the informal STEM learning field
Ideas and expectations about professions and about the process of becoming a professional are changing. Once defined largely by licenses or certificates, many fields of work are looking for more decentralized ways to determine what is a profession, and who is a professional. Many are turning to more decentralized ideas about professions and self-directed processes for lifelong professional learning. An increasing number of fields are using compet…
Environmental learning in everyday life: Foundations of meaning and a context for change
Environmental learning is a lifelong, lifewide, and life-deep endeavor, much of which occurs in the spaces in between those that are studied, remarked upon, and documented. Within this everyday-life context, we examine the concept of learningscapes—intersecting sociocultural, intellectual landscapes where people learn about and undertake practices related to the environment understood as a holistic concept. Considering the affordances and constra…
Children’s connection to nature as fostered through residential environmental education programs: Key variables explored through surveys and field journals
Children’s connection to nature increasingly is of interest in education, psychology, urban planning, and other related fields. Research findings emphasize the central importance of early connections due to resulting benefits for environmental awareness, knowledge, social-emotional learning, health, and wellbeing. To more clearly conceptualize the process by which connection to nature occurs, we studied fifth-grade students (n = 317) from three C…
Using a Delphi study to clarify the landscape and core outcomes in environmental education
When leaders in a field agree upon core outcomes for the field, connection, reinforcement, and a shared vision of change are synergistically strengthened. Even when the field is dynamic, theoretically wide-ranging, and dispersed, consensus around core outcomes can help develop strategic research agendas and priorities. Environmental education (EE) is an inherently interdisciplinary field drawing on diverse theoretical foundations and epistemologi…
Arts consumers’ place-visioning as a tool for planning creative neighborhoods
Neighborhoods in the urban context have varied stages of life-cycles, from emergent areas through to hyper-developed locales. These neighborhoods depend upon both visitors and residents to secure their revenue and foster economic growth. Arts and entertainment events are popular interventions in the municipal toolkit, often including art fairs, gallery walks, and music festivals, which can build social networks and foster connection to place. Thi…
Public sea turtle watches serve as effective environmental education
To understand both immediate and longer-term effects of a short duration, interpretive wildlife tourism program, we studied responses from participants in a sea turtle watch program. This program comprised an interpretive presentation followed by an opportunity to view a nesting loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta). We conducted 37 programs in 2013 and 2014, for 843 participants, of whom 70.5% were able to see a nesting turtle. We measured par…
Effect of Platform Used for Data Collection on Open-Ended Response Quality
Although the validity of collecting quantitative data using electronic platforms has been widely accepted, there has been concern that qualitative data collected on an electronic platform may not provide the same depth and richness in response quality as data collected using the pen-and-paper format. This article compares the quality of responses to open-ended questions collected using the pen-and-paper platform with responses collected using an …
Creatives' expectations: The role of supercreatives in cultural district development
Investigating the sets of values that community members hold toward local nature centers
While nature center’s missions often point to connecting people to nature in various ways, their potential to provide a broader array of services to their communities remains largely unexplored. To better understand the values local community members hold for nature centers, we conducted survey research around 16 centers in the United States. Exploratory factor analysis identified four underlying values: environmental connection, leisure provisio…
Factors that contribute to community members’ support of local nature centers
Nature centers can serve as valuable community institutions if they are seen as providing important services to the community. Through survey research in communities surrounding 16 nature centers in the United States, we examine the attitudes, behaviors, and beliefs that drive hypothetical support for nature centers from local residents. Respondents who recognized centers as institutions that provide opportunities for leisure and connection with …
Giant screen film and science learning in museums
The authors review the giant screen (GS) film literature to determine if the form has unique attributes that contribute to science learning. They find that four attributes are claimed to contribute to higher learning outcomes: the sense of immersion by reducing peripheral views to a minimum; first person perspective contributing to the sense of presence in the film; narrative structure; and sensory stimulation of mirror neurons that promote kines…
Building face, construct, and content validity through use of a modified Delphi: Adapting grounded theory to build an environmental field days observation tool
Environmental field days offer a distinct opportunity to connect students with science and the environment. The literature on field days, informed by research on field trips, provides a framework for best practices. If there are best practices, however, then presence or lack of the practice should have a discernable impact on the outcomes of the field day and should be measurable and some of them should be observable. The Delphi process was modif…
Critique of a Critique: Do Zoos and Aquariums Promote Attitude Change in Visitors
Marino et al. (2010) recently published a critique of a three-year National Science Foundation—funded investigation of the impact of zoo and aquarium visits on the public’s understanding of animals and their attitudes toward conservation (Falk, Heimlich, & Bronnenkant, 2008; Falk, Reinhard, Vernon, Bronnenkant, Deans, & Heimlich, 2007; Heimlich, Bronnenkant, Witgert, & Falk, 2004). This critique of that critique will show that Marino et al. serio…
Measuring Public Value: An Instrument and an Art Museum Case Study
Using Carol Scott's (2006) discussion of museum impact as a frame, a survey instrument was created to measure the value perceived by a community toward an art museum. The survey was administered at a local community arts festival. A factor analysis revealed that 18 out of 19 items used in the survey aligned with the 3 hypothesized areas of value: individual, societal, and economic. Results of the survey suggest that both recent and recent non-vis…
Talking to Visitors about Conservation: Exploring Message Communication through Docent–Visitor Interactions at Zoos
Education personnel, both paid staff and volunteers, are often used at zoos and other museums as a channel to disseminate educational messages. This exploratory study examined the use of zoo docents to communicate key conservation messages from the zoo to visitors. The study was conducted in 2 phases using an emergent design with mixed methods. The findings suggest that visitors perceive docents to be an important source for conservation messages…
Understanding behavior to understand behavior change: A literature review
One view of environmental education suggests that its goal is to 'develop a world population that ... has the knowledge, skills, attitudes, motivations and commitment to work individually and collectively towards solutions of current problems and the prevention of new ones' (UNESCO‐UNEP 1976). Embedded within this charge is the teaching of skills and motivations to implement skills, where a skill refers to performance of an act acquired through e…
Where Are We
M or F: Gender, Identity, and the Transformative Research Paradigm
Analyzing museum research data on the basis of a male or female distinction has the potential to create misleading findings about the subject being researched, can perpetuate bias against individuals who do not conform to heterosexual orthodoxy and, most importantly, reveals an institutional homophobia that discriminates against LGBTQ participants in the research. This paper considers the power and privilege of the researcher and choices of speci…
Gay and Lesbian Visitors and Cultural Institutions: Do They Come? Do They Care? A Pilot Study
A pilot study of GLBTQ visitors to cultural institutions revealled that the gays and lesbians visit and attend in larger proportions than the greater populations, but that membership and donorship seem relatively low. Respondents feel less comfortable visiting or attending on their own, except for visits to parks and nature centers. Lesbian and gay families with children appear to reflect more consistently the visitation patterns in the larger po…
Changing minds? Reassessing outcomes in free‐choice environmental education
This paper discusses three case studies – an exhibition on biodiversity, a hotel water conservation program, and a partnership between a nature center and urban public schools – to establish parameters for designing learning experiences that accommodate the varied worldviews and attitudes of learners. Positive outcomes occurred in all three cases, but could best be interpreted if sub‐samples of participants were distinguished based on their readi…
Critique of a Critique: Do Zoos and Aquariums Promote Attitude Change in Visitors
Marino et al. (2010) recently published a critique of a three-year National Science Foundation—funded investigation of the impact of zoo and aquarium visits on the public’s understanding of animals and their attitudes toward conservation (Falk, Heimlich, & Bronnenkant, 2008; Falk, Reinhard, Vernon, Bronnenkant, Deans, & Heimlich, 2007; Heimlich, Bronnenkant, Witgert, & Falk, 2004). This critique of that critique will show that Marino et al. serio…
Changing minds? Reassessing outcomes in free‐choice environmental education
This paper discusses three case studies – an exhibition on biodiversity, a hotel water conservation program, and a partnership between a nature center and urban public schools – to establish parameters for designing learning experiences that accommodate the varied worldviews and attitudes of learners. Positive outcomes occurred in all three cases, but could best be interpreted if sub‐samples of participants were distinguished based on their readi…
Using a Delphi study to clarify the landscape and core outcomes in environmental education
When leaders in a field agree upon core outcomes for the field, connection, reinforcement, and a shared vision of change are synergistically strengthened. Even when the field is dynamic, theoretically wide-ranging, and dispersed, consensus around core outcomes can help develop strategic research agendas and priorities. Environmental education (EE) is an inherently interdisciplinary field drawing on diverse theoretical foundations and epistemologi…
Environmental learning in everyday life: Foundations of meaning and a context for change
Environmental learning is a lifelong, lifewide, and life-deep endeavor, much of which occurs in the spaces in between those that are studied, remarked upon, and documented. Within this everyday-life context, we examine the concept of learningscapes—intersecting sociocultural, intellectual landscapes where people learn about and undertake practices related to the environment understood as a holistic concept. Considering the affordances and constra…
Public sea turtle watches serve as effective environmental education
To understand both immediate and longer-term effects of a short duration, interpretive wildlife tourism program, we studied responses from participants in a sea turtle watch program. This program comprised an interpretive presentation followed by an opportunity to view a nesting loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta). We conducted 37 programs in 2013 and 2014, for 843 participants, of whom 70.5% were able to see a nesting turtle. We measured par…
Creatives' expectations: The role of supercreatives in cultural district development
Investigating the sets of values that community members hold toward local nature centers
While nature center’s missions often point to connecting people to nature in various ways, their potential to provide a broader array of services to their communities remains largely unexplored. To better understand the values local community members hold for nature centers, we conducted survey research around 16 centers in the United States. Exploratory factor analysis identified four underlying values: environmental connection, leisure provisio…
Building face, construct, and content validity through use of a modified Delphi: Adapting grounded theory to build an environmental field days observation tool
Environmental field days offer a distinct opportunity to connect students with science and the environment. The literature on field days, informed by research on field trips, provides a framework for best practices. If there are best practices, however, then presence or lack of the practice should have a discernable impact on the outcomes of the field day and should be measurable and some of them should be observable. The Delphi process was modif…
M or F: Gender, Identity, and the Transformative Research Paradigm
Analyzing museum research data on the basis of a male or female distinction has the potential to create misleading findings about the subject being researched, can perpetuate bias against individuals who do not conform to heterosexual orthodoxy and, most importantly, reveals an institutional homophobia that discriminates against LGBTQ participants in the research. This paper considers the power and privilege of the researcher and choices of speci…
Gay and Lesbian Visitors and Cultural Institutions: Do They Come? Do They Care? A Pilot Study
A pilot study of GLBTQ visitors to cultural institutions revealled that the gays and lesbians visit and attend in larger proportions than the greater populations, but that membership and donorship seem relatively low. Respondents feel less comfortable visiting or attending on their own, except for visits to parks and nature centers. Lesbian and gay families with children appear to reflect more consistently the visitation patterns in the larger po…
Method Boundness Among Zoo and Park Educators
A national survey of 131 park and zoo educators' teaching beliefs was conducted in 14 parks and zoos in the US in 1996 by The Ohio State University Extension. The survey included two primary instruments. The Van Tilburg/Heimlich Teaching Beliefs Scale and a self‐report time on task and importance of task related to teaching methods and techniques. A third series of questions explored teaching purposes. The Van Tilburg/Heimlich Teaching Beliefs Sc…
Changing minds? Reassessing outcomes in free‐choice environmental education
This paper discusses three case studies – an exhibition on biodiversity, a hotel water conservation program, and a partnership between a nature center and urban public schools – to establish parameters for designing learning experiences that accommodate the varied worldviews and attitudes of learners. Positive outcomes occurred in all three cases, but could best be interpreted if sub‐samples of participants were distinguished based on their readi…
Talking to Visitors about Conservation: Exploring Message Communication through Docent–Visitor Interactions at Zoos
Education personnel, both paid staff and volunteers, are often used at zoos and other museums as a channel to disseminate educational messages. This exploratory study examined the use of zoo docents to communicate key conservation messages from the zoo to visitors. The study was conducted in 2 phases using an emergent design with mixed methods. The findings suggest that visitors perceive docents to be an important source for conservation messages…
Understanding behavior to understand behavior change: A literature review
One view of environmental education suggests that its goal is to 'develop a world population that ... has the knowledge, skills, attitudes, motivations and commitment to work individually and collectively towards solutions of current problems and the prevention of new ones' (UNESCO‐UNEP 1976). Embedded within this charge is the teaching of skills and motivations to implement skills, where a skill refers to performance of an act acquired through e…
Where Are We
M or F: Gender, Identity, and the Transformative Research Paradigm
Analyzing museum research data on the basis of a male or female distinction has the potential to create misleading findings about the subject being researched, can perpetuate bias against individuals who do not conform to heterosexual orthodoxy and, most importantly, reveals an institutional homophobia that discriminates against LGBTQ participants in the research. This paper considers the power and privilege of the researcher and choices of speci…
Gay and Lesbian Visitors and Cultural Institutions: Do They Come? Do They Care? A Pilot Study
A pilot study of GLBTQ visitors to cultural institutions revealled that the gays and lesbians visit and attend in larger proportions than the greater populations, but that membership and donorship seem relatively low. Respondents feel less comfortable visiting or attending on their own, except for visits to parks and nature centers. Lesbian and gay families with children appear to reflect more consistently the visitation patterns in the larger po…
Measuring Public Value: An Instrument and an Art Museum Case Study
Using Carol Scott's (2006) discussion of museum impact as a frame, a survey instrument was created to measure the value perceived by a community toward an art museum. The survey was administered at a local community arts festival. A factor analysis revealed that 18 out of 19 items used in the survey aligned with the 3 hypothesized areas of value: individual, societal, and economic. Results of the survey suggest that both recent and recent non-vis…
Critique of a Critique: Do Zoos and Aquariums Promote Attitude Change in Visitors
Marino et al. (2010) recently published a critique of a three-year National Science Foundation—funded investigation of the impact of zoo and aquarium visits on the public’s understanding of animals and their attitudes toward conservation (Falk, Heimlich, & Bronnenkant, 2008; Falk, Reinhard, Vernon, Bronnenkant, Deans, & Heimlich, 2007; Heimlich, Bronnenkant, Witgert, & Falk, 2004). This critique of that critique will show that Marino et al. serio…
Building face, construct, and content validity through use of a modified Delphi: Adapting grounded theory to build an environmental field days observation tool
Environmental field days offer a distinct opportunity to connect students with science and the environment. The literature on field days, informed by research on field trips, provides a framework for best practices. If there are best practices, however, then presence or lack of the practice should have a discernable impact on the outcomes of the field day and should be measurable and some of them should be observable. The Delphi process was modif…
Giant screen film and science learning in museums
The authors review the giant screen (GS) film literature to determine if the form has unique attributes that contribute to science learning. They find that four attributes are claimed to contribute to higher learning outcomes: the sense of immersion by reducing peripheral views to a minimum; first person perspective contributing to the sense of presence in the film; narrative structure; and sensory stimulation of mirror neurons that promote kines…
Investigating the sets of values that community members hold toward local nature centers
While nature center’s missions often point to connecting people to nature in various ways, their potential to provide a broader array of services to their communities remains largely unexplored. To better understand the values local community members hold for nature centers, we conducted survey research around 16 centers in the United States. Exploratory factor analysis identified four underlying values: environmental connection, leisure provisio…
Factors that contribute to community members’ support of local nature centers
Nature centers can serve as valuable community institutions if they are seen as providing important services to the community. Through survey research in communities surrounding 16 nature centers in the United States, we examine the attitudes, behaviors, and beliefs that drive hypothetical support for nature centers from local residents. Respondents who recognized centers as institutions that provide opportunities for leisure and connection with …
Creatives' expectations: The role of supercreatives in cultural district development
Effect of Platform Used for Data Collection on Open-Ended Response Quality
Although the validity of collecting quantitative data using electronic platforms has been widely accepted, there has been concern that qualitative data collected on an electronic platform may not provide the same depth and richness in response quality as data collected using the pen-and-paper format. This article compares the quality of responses to open-ended questions collected using the pen-and-paper platform with responses collected using an …
Public sea turtle watches serve as effective environmental education
To understand both immediate and longer-term effects of a short duration, interpretive wildlife tourism program, we studied responses from participants in a sea turtle watch program. This program comprised an interpretive presentation followed by an opportunity to view a nesting loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta). We conducted 37 programs in 2013 and 2014, for 843 participants, of whom 70.5% were able to see a nesting turtle. We measured par…
Children’s connection to nature as fostered through residential environmental education programs: Key variables explored through surveys and field journals
Children’s connection to nature increasingly is of interest in education, psychology, urban planning, and other related fields. Research findings emphasize the central importance of early connections due to resulting benefits for environmental awareness, knowledge, social-emotional learning, health, and wellbeing. To more clearly conceptualize the process by which connection to nature occurs, we studied fifth-grade students (n = 317) from three C…
Using a Delphi study to clarify the landscape and core outcomes in environmental education
When leaders in a field agree upon core outcomes for the field, connection, reinforcement, and a shared vision of change are synergistically strengthened. Even when the field is dynamic, theoretically wide-ranging, and dispersed, consensus around core outcomes can help develop strategic research agendas and priorities. Environmental education (EE) is an inherently interdisciplinary field drawing on diverse theoretical foundations and epistemologi…
Arts consumers’ place-visioning as a tool for planning creative neighborhoods
Neighborhoods in the urban context have varied stages of life-cycles, from emergent areas through to hyper-developed locales. These neighborhoods depend upon both visitors and residents to secure their revenue and foster economic growth. Arts and entertainment events are popular interventions in the municipal toolkit, often including art fairs, gallery walks, and music festivals, which can build social networks and foster connection to place. Thi…
Environmental learning in everyday life: Foundations of meaning and a context for change
Environmental learning is a lifelong, lifewide, and life-deep endeavor, much of which occurs in the spaces in between those that are studied, remarked upon, and documented. Within this everyday-life context, we examine the concept of learningscapes—intersecting sociocultural, intellectual landscapes where people learn about and undertake practices related to the environment understood as a holistic concept. Considering the affordances and constra…
Effects of Research and Mentoring on Underrepresented Youths’ STEM Persistence Into College
Background: Authentic research experiences and mentoring have positive impacts on fostering STEM engagement among youth from backgrounds underrepresented in STEM. Programs applying an experiential learning approach often incorporate one or both of these elements, however, there is little research on how these factors impact youth's STEM engagement during the high school to college transition. Purpose: Using a longitudinal design, this study explo…
An influence among influences: The perceived influence contribution scale development and use
Zoos and Aquariums in the Public Mind
Redefining professionalism for the informal STEM learning field
Ideas and expectations about professions and about the process of becoming a professional are changing. Once defined largely by licenses or certificates, many fields of work are looking for more decentralized ways to determine what is a profession, and who is a professional. Many are turning to more decentralized ideas about professions and self-directed processes for lifelong professional learning. An increasing number of fields are using compet…
Zoos and Aquariums in the Public Mind
Psychology (21 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Political science (13 works) · Pedagogy (12 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Environmental Education and Sustainability (10 works) · Public relations (10 works) · Environmental education (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works)