Education & Interpretation

Evaluative Thinking with Teens in the Museum

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Museums are increasingly conducting evaluation on their teen programs, but teen participants are often left out of such initiatives. If we are truly making programs for our teens, we need to incorporate their voices and ask the questions that are important to them. In this session, teen programs staff and a teen leader will discuss crafting student-centered evaluation that improves programming and gives teens agency to shape their own museum experience. Brainstorm forms of evaluation that might inform your own practice, and explore how you might utilize feedback from youth more effectively.

Learning Objectives:

• Determine ways to craft student-centered evaluation that improves programming and gives teens agency to shape their own museum experience.
• Reflect on the role of evaluation in your institution, as well as how it is being implemented and by whom.
• Integrate student-centered evaluation as a necessary part of program development.

Presenter(s)

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  Susan McCullough

  Acting Program Director for Art Education
  Queens College
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  Dyeemah Simmons

  Coordinator of Teen Programs
  Whitney Museum of American Art