Hi, I’m Rob Horowitz. I do research, evaluation and consulting, primarily in arts education. Maybe it’s because I’m a musician, but I often think of dissonance and consonance in my work. You can hear the beats of dissonance, if you carefully listen to the overtones of any group of tones. Dissonance in music provides tension …
My name is Steven Holochwost, and for the last 8 years I have worked for WolfBrown, an arts and cultural research and management consultancy. In my role as Senior Researcher, I help design and implement evaluations of arts education programs for children. Lessons Learned: I imagine that the circumstances of my work are similar to …
Hi, I am Timothy S. Brophy, professor of music education and Director of Institutional Assessment at the University of Florida in Gainesville, where I manage the assessment of over 500 assessment units at the university. As a music educator and an evaluator, I am interested in exploring the fundamental measurement issues related to the assessment …
Hi. I am Don Glass, the Co-Chair of the Arts, Culture, and Audiences TIG, and curator of ACA week on AEA365. In several of my recent arts education evaluations, building assessment capacity through the design of local tasks, rubrics, and scoring procedures have been at the center of my technical assistance and program recommendations. Good …
Hi, I am Susanne Harnett, evaluator for the Arts Achieve project in New York City (NYC), which is funded through two US DOE i3 and AEMDD grants. Arts Achieve involves a partnership between the NYC Department of Education and five arts organizations based in NYC. Arts Achieve seeks to improve student arts achievement through the …
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Welcome to Arts, Culture, and Audiences Topical Interest Group (ACA TIG) week with a focus on evaluating arts education! My name is Patricia Moore Shaffer of the Shaffer Evaluation Group. I am a former arts educator turned evaluator. As educators and policymakers look for alternatives to standardized, multiple-choice tests, I’m delighted to see a growing …
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I’m Kathleen Tinworth and I co-chair the recently re-named Arts, Culture, and Audiences TIG of AEA with Don Glass, who began this week’s AEA365 series. I lead the Audience Insights department at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science and also consult via my alter ego, ExposeYourMuseum. Lessons Learned Don started this week with a …
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Hi. I’m Joe E. Heimlich, a professor at Ohio State University in Extension, based at a science center. I work with all sorts of museums and increasingly with performing arts organizations and presenters. I’ve been fortunate to be able to do some interesting evaluation with jazz groups, theatre productions, dance troupes, and now a symphony. …
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Hi everyone – My name is Jennifer Novak-Leonard, and I’m a Senior Consultant with WolfBrown, an arts and cultural research and management consultancy. While many museums conduct regular visitor studies and have evaluators on staff, the idea of having an evaluator in a performing arts organization is largely a foreign concept. Performing arts organizations are …
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Hi, I’m Amy Grack Nelson, a doctoral student in Quantitative Methods in Education at the University of Minnesota and an Evaluation and Research Associate at the Science Museum of Minnesota. Science museums offer their audiences a wide range of learning experiences including interactive exhibits, media, and programs. As a program evaluator by training, there were …
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