Evaluation Workshop Nicola Bell, MA culture ~ evaluation ~ learning

The aims of the workshop are: To try some practical activities to use with different groups of people To ask good questions To try coding qualitative data To make an evaluation plan

Baseline and Formative evaluation Icebreakers (activities to help people get to know each other)

Personal Meaning Maps What do you know, think, feel about: Etnografski Muzej Zagreb

Gallery Visit Go to the galleries Think like a teenager - you are familiar with museums, they might not be Imagine that you are the museum’s Youth Forum, and you have to review the exhibitions Can you read the labels? (Dyslexia? Poor vision?) Can you find your way around? (Do you ask the room stewards? Are they helpful?) If you have a camera (or phone with a camera), take photos of things which you like and don’t like Come back here in 15 minutes

Like Don’t likeIt would be better if…. Use post-its to write your comments. If this was a real project, you would download and print people’s photos

Personal Meaning Maps - “After” Use a different colour to write everything new which you know, feel, think, now that you have visited the galleries In pairs, use coloured pencils to code statements to the Generic Learning Outcomes

Analysing Qualitative Data Inductive, or Grounded, Theory – start with the data you have, then look for outcomes. This will show unexpected outcomes as well as expected outcomes.

Use sweets as data! How can you sort the data? Coloured? Black and white? Stripes? Plain? Different colours? Round? Square? Do you know if they are chocolate / caramel / fruit, by looking at them? You can eat them, to find out! (if they were a person, you would have to ask them more questions)

Analysing qualitative and quantitative data Tutorials using simple Excel spreadsheets: /resources/resources.html in the section “Generic Learning Outcomes checklists and coding tools”

What makes a good question?

Create an Evaluation Plan Who? Older teenagers, studying art at school What? A two-day workshop in the museum, to improve their drawing and painting skills How can the students do as much of the evaluation as possible?