Educators and Evaluators: If Evaluation Could Only Tell Us–A Discussion at the Visitor Studies Conference Sponsored by the Museum Education Roundtable

This paper is a summary of presentation and panel discussion at the 1990 Visitor Studies Conference held in Washington, D.C. This discussion between evaluators and educators focused on their commitment to visitors and to understanding why visitors do or do not enjoy museum visits. Participants discussed different ways to define and quantify informal learning, as well as successes and failures in measuring informal learning at their institutions.