August 1st, 2010 | EVALUATION
Goodman Research Group, Inc. (GRG) is serving as the external evaluator of the three-year, NSF-funded Science Festival Alliance (SFA) project with this report summarizing results from the first year of the project. First year data collection was completed in June 2010. It included: Surveys of 1,411 San Diego Science Festival (SDSF) and 1,054 Cambridge Science Festival (CSF) attendees; End-of-year focus groups with each of the festival (SDSF and CSF) team leaders; and An online survey of 11 principal Alliance team members. The report is organized around four key questions: 1. Who participated in the science festivals? 2. What were participants' motivations for attending the festivals? 3. How did participants benefit from the festivals? and 4. How has the Science Festival Alliance developed in its first year?
Document
SFA_Yr_1_Evaluation_Report_REVISED_newpdf.pdf
Team Members
Colleen Manning, Evaluator, Goodman Research Group, Inc.Science Festival Alliance, Contributor
Molly Priedeman, Evaluator, Goodman Research Group, Inc.
Rucha Londhe, Evaluator, Goodman Research Group, Inc.
Karen Peterman, Evaluator, Goodman Research Group, Inc.
Irene F Goodman, Evaluator, Goodman Research Group, Inc.
Funders
Funding Source: NSF
Funding Program: AISL; Collaborative Research
Award Number: 0840333
Funding Amount: 3090078
Related URLs
http://www.sciencefestivals.org/
National Science Festival Network
Tags
Audience: Evaluators | Families | General Public | Museum | ISE Professionals | Youth | Teen (up to 17)
Discipline: Education and learning science | Engineering | General STEM | Mathematics | Technology
Resource Type: Evaluation Reports | Summative
Environment Type: Public Events and Festivals | Public Programs
