Skip to main content
COMMUNITY:
Summative

Summative Evaluation of Stormchasers with an Adult Audience

May 10, 1996 | Media and Technology
With major funding from the National Science Foundation, the Museum Film Network and NOVA/WGBH in conjunction with MacGillivray Freeman Films have produced an IMAX/ OMNIMAX film called Stormchasers. Stormchasers follows scientists as they investigate the dramatic weather effects of monsoons, hurricanes, and tornadoes. A quasi-experimental separate-sample pretest/posttest design was used to evaluate the film in its natural theater setting, focusing on the following major outcomes with adult audiences: • To what extent did the program appeal to adult viewers? • To what extent did the program achieve its intended viewing goals? • What did viewers perceive that they learned from the program, if anything? • Did viewing the program influence the audience beyond the museum visit?

TEAM MEMBERS

  • 2013 06 04 B Flagg Photo
    Evaluator
    Multimedia Research
  • Citation

    Funders

    NSF
    Funding Program: ISE
    Award Number: 9253471
    Resource Type: Evaluation Reports
    Discipline: Geoscience and geography
    Audience: Adults | Museum/ISE Professionals | Scientists | Evaluators
    Environment Type: Media and Technology | Films and IMAX

    If you would like to edit a resource, please email us to submit your request.