A model to follow in thinking about our program evaluation and research for the museum-based preschool program. This article outlines a series of planned studies, emergent results to date, and highlights collaborative nature of the work. Need to look for follow up publications that provide specific results, conclusions, recommendations.
Great resource for identifying measures to use within program evaluation in preschool--includes a table of assessment tools, their purposes, target age groups, and target areas
Museum learning across 4 programs for 4 to 7 year olds--interviews to assess saliency of learning experiences which is an aspect of comparative interest for my CEnR...what's the value added to preschool and museum learning experiences from the museum-based preschool program?
This checklist by the Harvard Center on the Developing Child would have been a really great tool as we were developing our preschool evaluation plan with CMoR/YWCA--still will be a good tool to evaluate the quality of our plan at this point.
Focus on parent-child interactions, and informal learning intervention to strengthen children's number understanding (link between museum-based learning to informal learning)
A joint position statement from leading professional orgs in Early Childhood--includes trends and issues as valuable background info, plus recommendations, plus FAQs about program evaluation.