Practical Evaluation Guide : Tools for Museums and Other Informal Educational Settings

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Pub. Date: 1999-01-01
Publisher(s): Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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Summary

Visitor evaluations provide clues to the effectiveness of exhibits and programs, and provide insights into how people learn in informal educational settings. In Practical Evaluation Guide, Judy Diamond presents the basic principles and techniques needed to design, implement and present an evaluation project. Diamond's clearly and simply written guide gives you the tools needed for studying the behavior and learning of people in informal educational settings, including how to plan an evaluation, evaluate evaluators, perform visitor observations, conduct interviews, design questionnaires, sample audiences, analyze qualitative and quantitative data, write reports, and much more. An extremely useful tool for anyone seeking guidance on how to set up competent, reliable evaluations in informal educational settings.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
9(2)
Preface and Acknowledgments 11(4)
Planning and Evaluation Project
15(10)
Evaluating the Evaluator
18(2)
The Evaluation Proposal
20(2)
Quantitative and Qualitative Evaluation Methods
22(3)
Informal Learning
25(8)
Protecting and Selecting Subjects
33(18)
Protecting Subjects' Rights
33(7)
How Many Subjects?
40(3)
Selecting Subjects for Quantitative Studies
43(5)
Selecting Subjects for Qualitative Studies
48(3)
Observational Tools
51(32)
Counting Heads
51(1)
Tracking Movements
52(4)
Brief Observations
56(6)
Recording Detailed Observations
62(2)
Recording Equipment
64(2)
Observation Categories
66(7)
Behavior Sampling Methods
73(2)
Validity and Reliability
75(4)
Participant Observation
79(4)
Interviews and Questionnaires
83(32)
Interview Guidelines
83(3)
Informal Conversational Interviews
86(1)
Semi-Structured Interviews
87(1)
Open-Ended Interviews
88(1)
Sturctured Interviews
89(1)
A Multicultural Case Study
89(2)
Projective Measures
91(3)
Expert Assessments
94(2)
Questionnaire Guidelines
96(4)
Writing Questions
100(15)
Measuring Learning
116(18)
Measuring Recall and Recognition
118(3)
The Clinical Interview
121(3)
Cognitive Maps
124(6)
Task Analysis
130(3)
Presenting and Analyzing Data
133(24)
Quantitative Data: Summarizing Data in Graphs
133(8)
Quantitative Data: Summarizing Data in Tables
141(6)
Quantitative Data: Comparing Data Sets
147(4)
Qualitative Data
151(6)
Preparing an Evaluation Report
157(6)
Writing an Evaluation Report for Publication
157(6)
Afterword 163(2)
References Cited 165(9)
Other Publication of Interest 174(8)
Figure and Table Credits 182(1)
Index 183(6)
Index of Authors Cited 189(2)
About the Author 191

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