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resource evaluation Aquarium and Zoo Exhibits

Formative Evaluation of the Museum of Science, Boston: Live Animal Garden

The goal of this evaluation was to determine how museum visitors responded to the museum's existing live animal exhibits and identify recommendations for their new Live Animal Garden exhibit.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Jordan Brick Claire Dorsett Yu Wen Wong Christine Reich Leigh Ann Mesiti
resource evaluation Public Programs

National Living Lab Broad Implementation, Year 1: Creating Communities of Learners for Informal Cognitive Science Education Formative Evaluation Report

Living Laboratory® (developed at the Museum of Science, Boston in 2005) is a new model for partnerships between museums and cognitive scientists, bringing cognitive scientists to museums, where they conduct active research studies with museum visitors as their subjects. In 2011, the Museum of Science began scaling up Living Laboratory to create a National Living Lab network. In Year 1, the program expanded to three new Hub sites: Madison Children’s Museum, Maryland Science Center, and Oregon Museum of Science and Industry. This report summarizes all formative evaluation from Year 1 of the
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TEAM MEMBERS: Catherine Lussenhop Clara Cahill Becki Kipling
resource evaluation Exhibitions

Provocative Questions: Supporting effective dialogue about societal issues informed by human biology in a changing world: Exploratory Research Study

This report details the findings from an exploratory research study conducted by the Research and Evaluation Department at the Museum of Science, Boston about this exhibition, which came to be known as Provocative Questions (PQ). This investigation was guided by the following questions: 1. Will visitors engage in socio-scientific argumentation in an un-facilitated exhibit space, and are they aware that they are doing so? 2. How do the un-facilitated exhibits impact visitors’ socio-scientific argumentation skills? For the exploratory research study, visitors were cued to use the exhibits and
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TEAM MEMBERS: Larry Bell Elizabeth Kollmann Juli Goss Catherine Lussenhop
resource evaluation Media and Technology

The Handheld Signing Math & Science Dictionaries for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Museum Visitors Research Project Field Test Evaluation Report: Family Visitors

With this 3-year project, TERC and the Museum of Science (MoS) Boston are studying how family and school visitors integrate iPod Touch versions of the Signing Science Pictionary (SSP), Signing Science Dictionary (SSD), and Signing Math Dictionary (SMD) into their museum experience and the impact of dictionary use. This report focuses on family visitors. Each dictionary includes more than 700 standards-based science or mathematics terms. The SSP (funded in part by grants from the Shapiro Family Foundation and the U. S. Department of Education, Grant #H327A080040) is intended for children ages 5
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TEAM MEMBERS: TERC Inc Judy Vesel Bill Nave Tara Robillard
resource evaluation Media and Technology

The Handheld Signing Math & Science Dictionaries for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Museum Visitors Research Project: A Sub-study Conducted with Families at the Harvard Museum of Natural History

With this project, TERC and the Museum of Science (MoS) Boston are studying how family and school visitors integrate iPod Touch versions of the Signing Science Pictionary (SSP), Signing Science Dictionary (SSD), and Signing Math Dictionary (SMD) into their museum experience and the impact of dictionary use. This report focuses on a sub-study involving family visitors to the Harvard Museum of Natural History (HMNH). Prior to this sub-study, TERC and the MoS conducted a primary study that examined use of the dictionaries at the MoS. Findings from this study showed the following: (1) Visitors
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TEAM MEMBERS: TERC Inc Judy Vesel Bill Nave Tara Robillard