Ford Education Center Summative Evaluation

(USA)

Research questions: The Ford Education Center (FEC) summative evaluation combines observation, computer usage data, and face-to-face interviews to document visitor use and learning outcomes focusing around three questions: Who uses the FEC and why? What is the nature and extent of visitors’ engagement with the FEC? What do visitors take away from their experience of the FEC?

Data presentation: The full report can be downloaded from the National postal Museum’s website at: http://www.postalmuseum.si.edu/museum/Ford_Education_Center_Summative_Evaluation.pdf

Principal researcher: Jill Stein from the Institute for Learning Innovation

Site: Smithsonian Institution National Postal Museum, Washington, DC

Time span: February-September 2009

Contact: Aurelie Henry, project manager at the National Postal Museum: henrya@si.edu