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December 4, 2007
Who's learning in science centers and museums? What are they learning?
MUSEUM EDUCATION MONITOR (MEM), the monthly e-newsletter, is compiling a
list of ongoing research or evaluation projects related to science
center and museum learning for our upcoming December 2007 issue.
If you wish to share your research or evaluation with others around the
world, please send an e-mail to [log in to unmask] that includes:
- name of project
- research or 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 researcher(s)/ evaluator(s)
- site(s) where research is being conducted
- time span
- contact information
- key words to describe the project [no more than 4 or 5, please]
Deadline for the December issue is Friday, December 14. Later
submissions will be included in the next month's issue.
Listings are in the language of their origin and are, of course, free of
charge.
As part of our ongoing service to the science center and museum
education community, research and resource listings back to 2004 are
archived and available through the online MEM Archives. Recent research
listings are also displayed and labelled on the blog FORUM: Research and
Resources in Museum Education accessible at www.mccastle.com
FYI, the following research projects were listed in MEM, November 2007:
- Master Teacher Pilot Project: University of Wyoming Art Museum (USA)
- Science Theatre, The Nature of Learning: an evaluation of visitor
learning from Science Theatre shows at Techniquest, Cardiff (UK)
- Women's Construction of Knowledge and Perceptions of Mammography (UK)
- Summative Evaluation for Visitor Use of the Realm of the Red Ape
Exhibit at Chester Zoo (UK)
- Summative Evaluation of the Elephants of the Asian Forest Exhibit (UK)
- Cued Questionnaire analysis of three years of Open Air Theatre at
Chester Zoo (UK)
- Summative evaluation of a changing exhibition space (UK)
- Evaluation of Broken Links: the Stolen Generations in Queensland
exhibition (AUS)
- Voice of the Teacher - motivations, barriers and incentives for
excursions to museums (AUS)
UPDATES on research listed in earlier issues of MEM:
- The Quality Field Trip Research Project (USA) [Originally listed MEM
June 2004]
A complimentary copy of the Museum Education Monitor November 2007 in
which these studies are listed is available upon request to
[log in to unmask] .
Please get in touch for more information about this call or to discuss
your research. I look forward to hearing from you!
M. Christine Castle, Editor, Museum Education Monitor
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For more information about Museum Education Monitor, please visit
http://www.mccastle.com
(Please excuse cross-postings. I 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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