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Exploring Forces - Gravity

Research & Evaluation

Exploring Forces - Gravity

Report date: August, 2008

 

Overview

Evaluation Title: 

Exploring Forces - Gravity

Date of report: 

08/2008

Contact: 

Sarah Cohn [1]

Permissions

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General Description: 

Science Museum of Minnesota visitors were invited to participate in the NanoDays activity, Exploring Forces – Gravity on Thursday, August 7 and Saturday, August 9. A total of 15 visitors filled out surveys about the activity after participating. This formative evaluation assesses the activity’s ability to teach that gravity is not a significant force on the nanoscale.

Major Findings: 

The formative evaluation of the Exploring Forces – Gravity activity shows that though the majority of visitors enjoyed the activity and reported having an easy time understanding it, they did not grasp the activity’s big idea or learning goal. Furthermore, about half of the visitors were not able to express the activity’s relation to nano.

Categorize

Evaluation type: 

  • formative/remedial
  • public

Type of product(s) studied: 

  • Program

Method(s) of data collection: 

  • surveys
Resources

Documents: 

application/pdf iconnanodaysforcesrep.pdf [3]

Author(s): 

Sarah Cohn
Claire Philippe

Associated product(s): 

Exploring Forces - Gravity (NanoDays 08, 09, 10) [4]
Source URL: http://www.nisenet.org/catalog/evaluation/exploring_forces_-_gravity

Links:
[1] http://www.nisenet.org/users/sarah_cohn
[2] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/
[3] http://www.nisenet.org/sites/default/files/catalog/eval/uploads/2010/12/1675/nanodaysforcesrep.pdf
[4] http://www.nisenet.org/catalog/programs/exploring_forces_-_gravity_nanodays_08_09_10