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Re: Effect of Cueing Visitors
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Jeff Courtman <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:43:07 -0600
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Hey Scott, is the corollary visitor/exhibit explainer interactions?

Should be a fair amount of stuff in qualitative, social sciences  
research, under the rubric of participant selection, but I would guess  
you won't find much that is generalizable to museum goers....


On Jan 25, 2012, at 4:46 PM, Scott Pattison wrote:

> ISEN-ASTC-L is a service of the Association of Science-Technology  
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> Hello,
>
> I'm looking for any published or unpublished studies that have  
> measured the impact of cueing (i.e., having a researcher or  
> evaluator actively recruit participants as opposed to, for example,  
> using a posted sign method of informed consent) on visitor learning  
> and behavior in museums and science centers. An example is this  
> study by Beverly Serrell:
> http://informalscience.org/researches/VSA-a0a6v8-a_5730.pdf
>
> At this point, this is the only article we have been able to find,  
> although we need to look more at research outside of visitor studies.
>
> Any ideas or suggestions are much appreciated.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Scott
>
> Scott Pattison
> Research & Evaluation Strategist
> Oregon Museum of Science and Industry
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