Summative evaluations of museum exhibitions are generally conducted with the aims of measuring whether an exhibition met its goals, identifying areas for improvement, and assessing impact. In many cases, evaluation studies also serve to advance the field by providing lessons for funders, policy makers, or practitioners beyond the project. This report includes details from summative evaluations that included recommendations, particularly those that might be useful for lessons learned and suggestions for improvements to the exhibitions that were evaluated. Using a bottom-up method of review, the
The aim of this study was to explore 22 Web site evaluation reports, or sections of larger evaluation reports centering on a Web site, to identify, define, and provide examples of the range of evaluation focus areas to inform the design of Web site evaluation studies. The sample included a group of reports contributed to the Informalscience.org online database. Prior to this study, staff members at the Science Museum of Minnesota organized and coded the database of evaluation reports as part of the Building Informal Science Education (BISE) project funded by the National Science Foundation
The EndNote library includes citations for all 520 reports that were coded as part of the Building Informal Science Education (BISE) project. PDF copies of each report are included with the citations. This is a file downloaded from EndNote that can be imported into Mendeley citation management software. Disclaimer: Citations may need to be cleaned once imported into Mendeley, as it may not be a clean transfer from EndNote.
The EndNote library includes citations for all 520 reports that were coded as part of the Building Informal Science Education (BISE) project. PDF copies of each report are included with the citations.
This worksheet helps you think through ways you might use the Building Informal Science Education (BISE) project’s resources to plan your own evaluation or learn about evaluation practices in the informal learning field.
This zip file includes the 520 reports that were downloaded from informalscience.org and coded as part of the Building Informal Science Education (BISE) project. Each of the reports is referred to by a project ID number that is used across all of the BISE resources.
This document provides examples of questions you can answer in NVivo by running matrix queries, running coding queries, and creating sets. It was created to help users navigate the NVivo Database as part of the Building Informal Science Education (BISE) project.
BISE’s NVivo database includes all of the coding applied by the BISE team based on the BISE Coding Framework. This includes codes that were applied to specific sections of a report (referred to as “nodes” in Nvivo) and codes that were applied to an entire report (referred to as “attributes” in Nvivo). For Mac or NVivo 9 versions, visit the VSA website at http://www.visitorstudies.org/bise.
Today, there exists a greater need to connect people to nature. Stemming from exploratory work into useful nature exhibit practices, the Wildlife Conservation Society aims to develop a new family exhibit–Safari Adventure–along with related programs and institutional practices, to better connect the families in our urban community to nature. This Logic Model outlines the impacts, activities, outputs, outcomes, and impacts for future development of this project, based on our exploratory investigation that included benchmarking trips, advisor and local educator workshops, community focus groups
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This presentation was given as a preconference workshop at the 6th Annual International Science of Team Science Conference in 2015. It presents tools and resources for implementing effective practices in team science, and introduces tools and resources to help bolster collaboration.
This paper, commissioned as part of a consensus study on successful out-of-school STEM learning from the National Research Council's Board on Science Education, explores evidence-based strategies developed in out-of-school time STEM programs for successfully engaging youth from underrepresented demographics in STEM learning.