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Hi all,
A question for those of you in evaluation:  We are interested in  
evaluating the role of "environmental" components in a facilitated  
hands-on experience.  Our challenge is the scale.  Here's where we  
are now:




Did not help me at all
Did not help me
Neither helped nor confused me
Helped me
Helped me a lot
videos





posters





Legos





computers





station movement  (within the space)












  We're not sure if this scale will give us what we are after.  We  
suspect we will be unable to differentiate between people with  
previous knowledge AND those with zero baseline knowledge - they may  
both check "Did not help me at all". If we split that comment into  
"did not help because I already knew it" and "did not help, I'm still  
confused", are we getting into trouble?

Any comments would be helpful.

Thanks,
Beryl




Beryl Rosenthal
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Dir. of Exhibition & Public Programs
MIT Museum
265 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02139
(617)452-2111 (t)
(617)253-8994 (f)



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