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Dee KaiserDee Kaiser
PhD Candidate
Dublin City University
David SmithDavid Smith
Director of Professional Development
Da Vinci Science Center
Christine CastleChristine Castle
Editor
Museum Education Monitor
Kirsten EllenbogenKirsten Ellenbogen
Director of Evaluation & Research in Learning
Science Museum of Minnesota
David AndersonDavid Anderson
Professor
University of British Columbia
Devan LewisDevan Lewis
Masters Student in Free Choice Learning
Oregon State University
Leonisa ArdizzoneLeonisa Ardizzone
Executive Director
Salvadori Center
Alice FuAlice Fu
PhD Student
Stanford University School of Education

  • Summative Report :: Korn, R. (2008). Race Are We So Different?: A Summative Report. Arlington: American Anthropological Association.
  • Summative Report :: Goodman Research Group, Inc. (2008). Design Squad: Final Evaluation Report. Boston: WGBH Educational Foundation.
  • Summative Report :: Stull, J. (2008). Sisters in Science in the Community: An Informal Gender Equity Program. Flushing: Queens College/CUNY.
  • Summative Report :: Apley, A. (2008). Dinosaurs Alive Film Summative Report. Baltimore: Maryland Science Center.
  • Summative Report :: Apley, A. (2007). DragonflyTV: Going Places in Science Children's Viewing Study. Saint Paul: Twin Cities Public Television.
  • Front End Report :: Serrell, B. (2007). CORN Front-End Evaluation. Indianapolis: Indiana State Museum.


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    New Features

    Project Pages » This new feature will become a living collection of informal learning projects. Create your own Project Page, link team members with profiles, browse similar projects, and see who is working on what.


    Membership » You can now Become a Member of InformalScience.org. Create a Member Profile to let others know about your work and interests. When you sign-up, your member page automatically populates with any of your work in found in the research, evaluation and projects databases. You can add new work, include images, presentations, and list conferences you plan to attend.


    Connections » Who is the field? Pulling from member profiles, project pages, evaluation reports, and citations, the site lets you explore links between research, people and projects. As the site grows, these connections will reveal the networks of ideas, collaborations and endeavors that unite us into a field.


    Interviews from the Field | Summer 2008
    Randikorn Randi Korn, Director
    Randi Korn & Associates, Inc.
    Join a conversation about a broader role for evaluation in the activities of museums, the opportunities and challenges of the new framework for measuring impacts of informal learning experiences, and the professional development of evaluators.
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