Free-choice science learning: framing the discussion / John H. Falk -- Who produces science information for the public? / Bruce V. Lewenstein -- Achieving scientific literacy: strategies for insuring that free-choice science education complements national formal science education efforts / Rodger W. Bybee -- The use of time and space in assessing the potential of free-choice learning / Geoffrey Godbey -- The effects of early childhood TV-viewing on learning / John C. Wright, Daniel R. Anderson -- The acquisition and retention of scientific information by American adults / Jon D. Miller -- Investigating the role of free-choice learning on public understanding of science: the California science center L.A.S.E.R. project / John H. Falk, Pauline Brooks, and Rinoti Amin -- Supporting and documenting choice in free-choice science learning environments / Robert B. Lebeau -- The first free-choice science learning conference: from issues to future directions / Jessica J. Luke -- The free-choice education sector as a sleeping giant in the public policy debate / Diane B. Frankel -- Supporting systemic school science education reform in partnership with free-choice science learning: a Texas case study / Charlie Walter and Vanessa Westbrook -- Free-choice science learning: future directions for researchers / Laura Martin -- A practitioner's view on the value of an infrastructure for free-choice science learning / Ann M. Muscat. Includes bibliographical references and index.