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From: "Alison James" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 10:13 PM
Subject: Re: MEM - Ongoing evaluation in the U.K.?
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> From: "Christine Castle" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 9:19 PM
> Subject: MEM - Ongoing evaluation in the U.K.?
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>> November 16, 2006
>> Ongoing evaluation projects - Formative? Ongoing? Summative? - Big?
>> Small? - Visitors? Programs? Learning? - What are you working on?
>>
>> MUSEUM EDUCATION MONITOR (MEM), the e-newsletter, is now compiling for
>> our upcoming December 2006 issue a list of ongoing and recently
>> completed evaluation studies on questions related to museum/gallery
>> education/interpretation. Projects - big or small - by students,
>> academics, or practitioners (paid and volunteer) are all welcome and
>> will be included.
>>
>> If you wish to share information on your project, please send an e-mail
>> to [log in to unmask] that includes:
>> - name of project
>> - evaluation question(s) [no more than 50 words, please]
>> - how the data will be presented [report, article, dissertation,
>> program, training event, workshop, curriculum, plan for change, etc.]
>> - principal evaluator(s)
>> - site(s) where evaluation is being conducted
>> - time span
>> - contact information
>> - key words to describe the project [no more than 4 or 5, please]
>> Deadline for this issue is *Friday, December 8, 2006.*
>>
>> All listings are free of charge. Submissions are included in the current
>> MEM and catalogued afterwards in our archive, which now contains over
>> 1,000 entries dating back to 2004. Full access to the MEM Archives is
>> available only to subscribers. However, time-limited guest research
>> passes are available to students and interested others by contacting MEM
>> at [log in to unmask]
>>
>> FYI, the following research projects were listed in MEM, October 2006:
>> - Public Perception Of Nanotechnology - Taking a look at it from
>> childhood, adolescence and youth (Brazil)
>> - Museum Access Pilot Project for People With Vision Loss (Canada)
>> - Packing A Suitcase For Canada: An Innovative Museum School Curriculum
>> Model (Canada)
>> - History, Museums and National Identity in a Divided Country:
>> Children's Experience of Museum Education in Cyprus (Cyprus)
>> - History of the East German Secret Service, 1949-1959. Touring
>> Exhibition of Federal Commission for the Files of former East German
>> Secret Service "Stasi" (Germany)
>> - Cultural heritage, lifelong learning and social cohesion (Sweden)
>> - Journeys Through Time: What School Children Learn from History Museum
>> Field Trips (USA)
>> - Learning from Fossil Mysteries: An exhibition summative evaluation
>> (USA)
>>
>> A complimentary copy of the December 2006 issue of Museum Education
>> Monitor noted above is available upon request to [log in to unmask] .
>>
>> For more information about this call or to list other research projects
>> please contact us. We look forward to hearing from you!
>>
>> M. Christine Castle, Editor, Museum Education Monitor
>> Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
>> [log in to unmask]
>> For more information about Museum Education Monitor, please go to
>> http://www.mccastle.com
>>
>> (Please excuse cross-postings. We try to extend the call as widely as
>> possible. Inevitably many of us are subscribed to several electronic
>> discussion lists related to museum education. For those who are, your
>> patience is appreciated. CC.}
>>
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