Hi Sarah,
For a very practical "how to" resource, check out Diamond, Luke, & Uttal's "Practical Evaluation Guide." It walks you through different ways to assess what visitors take away from informal learning spaces/experiences. The guide provides great examples of different tools you can use to gather information depending on where the project/program you are assessing is in it's lifespan (conceptual or planning stage, piloting stage, completion stage) and what it is you want to find out.
RE surveys: they are just one of many tools museum practitioners can use to gather information; they're not necessarily appropriate for every study. However, if you decide that a survey is an appropriate methodology for your particular study/evaluation, I highly recommend Robinson and Leonard's "Designing Quality Survey Questions," an excellent resource on how to compose clear and understandable questions that support the purpose of the survey and measure what you want to measure. Includes lots of great examples.
Best of luck!
Kirsten
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Kirsten Buchner
Insight Evaluation Services
kirsten@insighte.net------------------------------
Original Message:
Sent: 10-18-2019 12:32 PM
From: Ellen Giusti
Subject: Museum Evaluation template
Hi Sarah,
Be sure to check the Committee on Audience Research and Evaluation (CARE part of AAM), Visitor Studies Association (VSA) and
Informalscience.org (not only science resources). You should certainly join CARE if you are at all interested in pursuing evaluation at your institution. There are many publications that can be helpful as well; you can find a list of articles and books on CARE or VSA websites.
Ellen Giusti
Tel: 212 876-1425
Cell: 917 885-2614
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Hi all, I am looking for some simple examples of museum education program evaluation templates. I realize that these things are not one size fits all, but I am hoping to find a few different examples to show the director of the museum where I work some options for pre/mid/post program evaluations. Any links or examples are welcome. I am Googling away as well, but thought I would post here too. Thanks.
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Sarah Freeman
Exhibitions Manager
Brattleboro Museum & Art Center
Brattleboro VT
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