November 16, 2006
Ongoing evaluation projects - Formative? Ongoing? Summative? - Big?
Small? - Visitors? Programs? Learning? - What are you working on?

MUSEUM EDUCATION MONITOR (MEM), the e-newsletter, is now compiling for
our upcoming December 2006 issue a list of ongoing and recently
completed evaluation studies on questions related to museum/gallery
education/interpretation. Projects - big or small - by students,
academics, or practitioners (paid and volunteer) are all welcome and
will be included. 
 
If you wish to share information on your project, please send an e-mail
to mem at mccastle.com that includes:
- name of project
- evaluation question(s) [no more than 50 words, please]
- how the data will be presented [report, article, dissertation,
program, training event, workshop, curriculum, plan for change, etc.]
- principal evaluator(s)
- site(s) where evaluation is being conducted
- time span
- contact information
- key words to describe the project [no more than 4 or 5, please]
Deadline for this issue is *Friday, December 8, 2006.*

All listings are free of charge. Submissions are included in the current
MEM and catalogued afterwards in our archive, which now contains over
1,000 entries dating back to 2004. Full access to the MEM Archives is
available only to subscribers. However, time-limited guest research
passes are available to students and interested others by contacting MEM
at mem at mccastle.com 

FYI, the following research projects were listed in MEM, October 2006:
- Public Perception Of Nanotechnology - Taking a look at it from
childhood, adolescence and youth (Brazil)
- Museum Access Pilot Project for People With Vision Loss (Canada)
- Packing A Suitcase For Canada: An Innovative Museum School Curriculum
Model (Canada)
- History, Museums and National Identity in a Divided Country:
Children's Experience of Museum Education in Cyprus (Cyprus)
- History of the East German Secret Service, 1949-1959. Touring
Exhibition of Federal Commission for the Files of former East German
Secret Service "Stasi" (Germany)
- Cultural heritage, lifelong learning and social cohesion (Sweden)
- Journeys Through Time: What School Children Learn from History Museum
Field Trips (USA)
- Learning from Fossil Mysteries: An exhibition summative evaluation
(USA)

A complimentary copy of the December 2006 issue of Museum Education
Monitor noted above is available upon request to mem at mccastle.com .   

For more information about this call or to list other research projects
please contact us. We look forward to hearing from you!

M. Christine Castle, Editor, Museum Education Monitor 
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
mem at mccastle.com                  
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(Please excuse cross-postings. We try to extend the call as widely as
possible. Inevitably many of us are subscribed to several electronic
discussion lists related to museum education. For those who are, your
patience is appreciated. CC.}