Arts, Culture, and Audiences

CEA Affiliate Week: Evaluating informal learning in Chicagoland and beyond By Rebecca Teasdale, Lindsay Maldonado, and Cecilia Garibay

1 Comment / Arts, Culture, and Audiences / July 19, 2019

Hello! We are Rebecca Teasdale, Lindsay Maldonado, and Cecilia Garibay—three Chicago-based evaluators who practice in museums, aquariums/zoos, libraries, and other informal learning contexts. Given that Chicago is known for its world-class cultural institutions, it’s a great home base for our work. Today, we’re pleased to share three lessons we’ve learned about evaluation of informal learning …

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LAWG Week: Great Lakes, Great Data: COVES implementation at The Great Lakes Science Center by Scott Vollmer

Leave a Comment / Arts, Culture, and Audiences / September 2, 2018

Hi, I’m Scott Vollmer, VP of STEM Learning at Great Lakes Science Center (GLSC) in Cleveland, Ohio.  I am passionate about my work and find that evaluation data is especially useful when trying to express my passion objectively. Since July 2017, we have been using COVES (the Collaboration for Ongoing Visitor Experience Studies) to collect …

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LAWG Week: Learning from Non-Visitors to the Cleveland Museum of Art by Elizabeth Bolander

2 Comments / Arts, Culture, and Audiences / July 16, 2018

My name is Elizabeth Bolander, Director of Audience Insights and Services at the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) and President-Elect of the Visitor Studies Association. We do a variety of research and evaluation activities at CMA, all with the goal of learning about the needs of our various constituencies and communities. This work is particularly …

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BECOME Week: Using Art in Evaluation by Keisha Farmer-Smith

4 Comments / Arts, Culture, and Audiences / January 20, 2018

Hi, my name is Keisha Farmer-Smith from Become, better known as Dr. Kei-Kei! I received my nickname from young people in an afterschool program while conducting evaluation and outcomes work. It is an honor to learn from children and help create quality youth development programs. Artwork is one way to creatively explore program strengths, opportunities, …

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DUP Week: Accessible Evaluation Techniques with June Gothberg

3 Comments / Advocacy and Policy Change, Arts, Culture, and Audiences, Design and Analysis of Experiments, Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations, Evaluation Use / September 2, 2017

Greetings, I am June Gothberg, Ph.D. from Western Michigan University, Chair of the Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations TIG and co-author of the Universal Design for Evaluation Checklist (4th ed.).   Historically, our TIG has been a ‘working’ TIG, working collaboratively with AEA and the field to build capacity for accessible and inclusive evaluation.  Several terms tend to …

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Diego Escobar on Finding ways to bridge the gap between arts promotion and program evaluation

2 Comments / Arts, Culture, and Audiences / June 25, 2016

My name is Diego Escobar and I am Director of Institutional Development at Jalisco’s Ministry of Culture. We recently hosted an event that was part of CLEAR-LA’s Evaluation Week Mexico 2016. We were very excited to be part of the program. We took the opportunity to ignite discussion and bring together experts from what sometimes …

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BISE Week: Using the Visitor Studies Association to Engage Evaluators in Research on Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Arts, Culture, and Audiences / March 26, 2016

Hi! I’m Sarah Cohn, Association Manager for the Visitor Studies Association (VSA). VSA and I are a part of the Building Informal Science Education project (BISE). In this post, I’ll share information about VSA and how the Association supported the BISE project. Lessons Learned: VSA served as a platform for the BISE project to engage with …

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BISE Week: Rebecca Teasdale on methods for evaluating public library STEM programs

Leave a Comment / Arts, Culture, and Audiences, STEM Education and Training / March 19, 2016

Hello! I am Rebecca Teasdale, a doctoral student in Educational Psychology specializing in evaluation methodology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I’m also a librarian and have served as an administrator and science librarian in public libraries. My current work focuses on the evaluation of interest-driven learning related to science, technology, engineering and math …

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BISE Week: Amy Grack Nelson and Zdanna King on Reporting with an Evaluator Audience in Mind

Leave a Comment / Arts, Culture, and Audiences / March 19, 2016

Hi! This is Amy Grack Nelson, Evaluation and Research Manager, and Zdanna King, Assistant Evaluation and Research Manager, from the Science Museum of Minnesota. If you are like us, you may have shared an evaluation report with other evaluators on websites such as AEA’s eLibrary or informalscience.org. Even though opportunities to share reports online are …

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BISE Week: Carey Tisdal on A Framework to Focus Website Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Arts, Culture, and Audiences / March 19, 2016

Hello! I am Carey Tisdal, Director of Tisdal Consulting in St. Louis, Missouri. I work with people who develop informal learning experiences for museum exhibitions, museum programs, documentary films, and media-based projects. Many of my projects include websites as one element of a learning system. I used the Building Informal Science Education (BISE) project as …

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