February 16th, 2016 | EVALUATION
In 2011 the Bishop Museum and two collaborating organizations, University of Hawai’i at Manoa (UH) and the Pacific Voyaging Society (PVS), were awarded a multi-year grant from the Native Hawaiian Education Program (NHEP) to develop classroom and dockside curricula, an online resource center for educators, teacher workshops, a planetarium show, and a field-trip program for middle school students. The overall goal of these educational products and programs is to make STEM content accessible to Native Hawaiian students by presenting it through the lens of ancient Hawaiian navigational systems. Michael Shanahan, Director of Education, Visitor Experience and Planetarium, at the Bishop Museum contracted with Doris Ash, Ph.D., and Wendy Meluch, MA, to conduct formative and summative evaluation of the NHEP program components. Ash and Meluch collaborated on all evaluation plans. Ash was primarily responsible for evaluation activities relating to the collaboration itself, curriculum components, the on-line resource center and teacher workshops. Meluch managed the fieldtrip evaluation studies with teachers and students, including extensive formative testing. All study protocols were submitted for IRB review at UH and granted exempt status. This document reports on the summative evaluation of the on-site fieldtrip program.
Document
BishopMuseum_DoE_NHEP_FieldTrip_SummativeEval_2014_0.pdf
Team Members
Doris Ash, EvaluatorWendy Meluch, Evaluator, Visitor Studies Services
Funders
Funding Source: ED
Funding Program: US Department of Education Native Hawaiian Education Program (NHEP)
Tags
Access and Inclusion: Indigenous and Tribal Communities
Audience: Educators | Teachers | Evaluators | Middle School Children (11-13) | Museum | ISE Professionals
Discipline: Ecology | forestry | agriculture | Education and learning science | General STEM | Life science | Space science
Resource Type: Summative
Environment Type: Exhibitions | Informal | Formal Connections | K-12 Programs | Media and Technology | Museum and Science Center Exhibits | Museum and Science Center Programs | Planetarium and Science on a Sphere | Public Programs