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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.?
> 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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