A presentation about Research and Evaluation given by G.Kimble during the 2012 Astronomy to Inspire and Educate Young Children: EU Universe Awareness Workshop.

1. g.kimble@nhm.ac.uk

2. Nothing! Everything!
Not at all Totally

3. Front end research Formative: improvements Summative: report
 Aims
 Methods
 Analysis
 Results
 Discussion

4. Your question depends on your view of knowledge:
Kelly et al. (2012)

5. Your question depends on your epistemology
What did they learn about astronomy?
What was the role of How did individuals’
social interactions in ideas change?
the group?

6. Time to analyse method proportional to age Teach
Write
Draw others
Move Talk
objects
Move towards
(run away?!)
Frown
Smile!
Look

7. Writing, Interviews Conversations,
Drawings, with pupils, repetition,
video, parents, exclamations,
observations teachers… (microphone/
video data)

8. Your question depends on your epistemology
Disciplinary
What did they learn about astronomy?
A Test -cognitive knowledge and skills
Socio cultural Personal
What was the role of social How did individuals’ ideas change?
interactions? Microphone or video of one child
Video/observe group Personal Meaning Mapping (Falk)
Listen to group discussion Drawings- Jensen

9. Good when you know the content e.g. exhibition
Crowley and Knutson, 2010

10. Barriault and Pearson, 2010

12.  Pre/post visit questionnaires to complete
online or in print.
 Structure into session for schools
“whilst we are setting up the connection pupils
can be completing their surveys”

13. Growth
Nutrition
Falk, 2000

15. You code the data according to what is there
Talk Codes
Oh my gosh that is the meadow exclamation habitat
Please keep to the meadow path rules habitat
You got the paths here yeah, in between all therepetitionthinking
thingies.
Hey commentator, you’ve got to commentate yeah on what we find.
recording
He touched one of the plants. He wasn’t supposed to even touch it. commenting on peer
touch plants
I can hear some birds but I don’t know where they are. name
sound unknown species
Maybe. uncertainty
What do you see? questioning observation
How are you going to see that, look at that! I don’t get it. You can’t really see a bat in a wildlife centre
expectation
Imagine if we actually saw an elephant in a wildlife centre, that would be so weird.
imagination species name
Jackdaw- that’s a type of bird. species name classification
Why did we get the meadow? questioning habitat fairness
There’s loads in here man! disagreement to peer
calling quantity
We’ve found something! teamworkdiscovery unknown species
Good for first stage

17. You fit the data into a framework
EE EE NH
skills 16 17
knowledge 7 5
enjoyment 4 3
activity 5 2
attitudes 4 4
36 31
Extra data?

20. 1. Disciplinary
2. Personal
3. Socio cultural