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Kevin Crowley crowleyk@pitt.edu LRDC
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Associate Professor of Learning Science and Policy, School of Education
Research Scientist, Learning Research & Development Center
U.C. Santa Cruz, Postdoc 1994-97
Carnegie Mellon, MS 1991, Ph.D. 1994
Swarthmore College, BA 1989
Roy L. Shafer Leading Edge Award, Association of Science and Technology Centers, 2005, for the UPCLOSE partnership with the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh.
Member, National Research Council Study Panel on Learning Science, Kindergarten through Eight Grade, 2004-2005.
Program Chair, Visitor Studies Association Conference, 2006.
Met Life Promising Practice award from the Association of Children's Museums, awarded to the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh and UPCLOSE, 2004.
Associate Editor, American Educational Research Journal: Section on Teaching Learning and Human Development, 2001 to 2004
Named as a collaborator on a G-Mark Good Design Award, Special Prize of the Chairman Jury that was given to NHK and the Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu, Japan, 2004
Visiting professor, Nagoya University School of Education, Nagoya Japan, 2003.
Editorial Award, Japanese Cognitive Science Society, 1997
Eberbach, C. & Crowely, K. (in press). From Everyday to Scientific Observation: How Children Learn to Observe the Biologist’s World. Review of Educational Research.
Bernstein, D. & Crowley, K. (2008). Searching for Signs of Intelligent Life: An Investigation of Young Children’s Beliefs About Robot Intelligence. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 17:2, 225-247.
DiSalvo, B.J., Crowley, K. & Norwood, R. (2008). "Learning in Context: Digital games and young black men." Games and Culture 3, 131-141.
Fender, J. G. & Crowley, K. (2007) How parent explanation changes what children learn from everyday scientific thinking.. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 28, 189-210.
Palmquist, S.D. & Crowley, K. (2007). From teachers to testers: Parents’ role in child expertise development in informal settings. Science Education, 91(5), 712-732.
Sanford, C., Knutson, K., & Crowley, K. (2007). We Always Spend Time Together on Sundays: Grandparents and informal learning. Visitor Studies, 10(2), 136-151.
Bernstein, D., Crowley, K. & Nourbakhsh, I. (2007). Working with a robot: Exploring relationship potential in human-robot systems. Interaction Studies, 8 (3), 465-482.
National Science Foundation, City as Learning Lab: Spreading Technological Fluency Through Creative Robotics. March 2008 to February 2012. Crowley (PI), DiSalvo (Co-PI), Nourbakhsh (Co-PI).
Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild, Understanding the student and community impact of arts-based youth programs. February 2008 to January 2010. PI’s: Crowley & Knutson.
National Science Foundation, Center for the Advancement of Informal Science Education (CAISE), June 1, 2007 to May 31, 2012. Pollack (PI), Crowley (Co-PI), Falk (Co-PI), & Freidman (Co-PI).
National Science Foundation, InformalScience.org: Building a Web Community for Informal Science, July 1, 2006 to June 30, 2008. Crowley (PI) & Louw (Co-PI).
Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Learning Research and Evaluation for the Dinosaurs in Their Time Exhibition. 2005-2007, Crowley (PI) & Palmquist (Co-PI).
Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, How People Make Things:A traveling exhibition, research subcontract from an NSF grant to the Chidlren’s Museum of Pittsburgh.
