This formative evaluation was conducted to see how the addition of an interactive media piece enhanced visitors' understanding of Nasturtium, a life sciences exhibit that demonstrates the water repelling properties of nasturtium leaves. The media piece allows the visitor to view leaf structures at progressively higher magnifications to better illustrate their scale and function. Read more
This method will focus on capturing information about the forum participants. Survey questions address participants' demographics, interests, and backgrounds. In addition, the participants can be asked for recommendations about how to improve the program, what they learned, and what they valued about the program. This will help you to learn what participants thought about their experience, what they valued, and what changes they recommend. Read more
In the days or weeks following the forum, speakers can be contacted and asked to fill out a survey. The survey will ask the speakers what value they found in participating., how the institution helped them prepare for r the forum, and how the institution could have better helped him or her prepare for the forum this can you you to understand what about your speaker preparations worked well and what changes can be made to improve the process. Read more
In the days following the forum, program staff can be asked to provide information in order to create a record of the forum event. Staff can be asked about their thoughts on the success of the forum, how they felt about their preparation for the event, their thoughts on the structure and format of the forum, what changes they would recommend for future implementations of the program. This can help you to understand the effective components of the event, as well as the parts that need to be changed. Read more
Observers, either small group discussion facilitators or program staff, can complete a debrief form at the end of the small group discussion to summarize the content of the discussion for one of the small groups. This instrument will help you learn about he participants' views of the small group discussion as seen through the eyes of staff. It will help you understand the content of the participants' discussion as well as any concerns of confusion they had about the scenarios. Read more
Notes can be taken on the dialogue that takes place between the participants and speakers/moderators. This information will help you learn more about the perspectives of the participants, speakers and moderator. This will help you to understand the interests, confusion, and/or concerns of these stakeholders so that these things can be taken into consideration during future presentations of the forum. Read more
The registration survey will primarily serve as a registration tool for the program staff so that they know who is coming to the forum. However, this tool can also be used to learn more about the participants. Questions can be added in order to learn how participants are hearing about the forum (through what marketing methods) and whether the participants have any specific accommodation needs. Read more
