1998 Conference
Evaluation and Visitor Research
Special Interest Group
Old Parliament House, Canberra
3-5 August 1998
The copyright of all papers remains with
their authors.
Monday Workshops
1. Surveying visitors:
Questionnaire design
Carolyn Meehan, Museum of Victoria. Her notes are here
2. Front-End evaluation
Lynda Kelly, Australian Museum. Her notes are
here [PDF 24k]
Gillian Savage, Environmetrics. Her notes are here [PDF 14k]
3. Cost-effective exhibit
evaluation
Leonie Rennie, Curtin University of Technology
Ilze Groves, Questacon.
4. Program Evaluation
[PDF 51k]
Carol Scott, Powerhouse Museum.
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Tuesday
9.00 Opening Adress: Dr Bill Jonas
9.20 A long and winding road.
[PDF 16k]
Carol Scott.
9.45 Issues and trends.
Applying the results of visitor
research and evaluation to marketing.
David Bradshaw, Newcastle Regional Art Gallery
Developing long term systems for
monitoring trends.
[PDF 21k]
Lynda Kelly, Australian Museum.
New fields - applying visitor research
and evaluation to outdoor interpretation.
Lynne McLoughlin, Macquarie University.
Meta-evaluation.
Carol Scott.
Applying visitor evaluation to art
galleries. [PDF 185k]
Henry Gaugham.
10.45 Morning tea
11.15 Visitor as Learner
Finding evidence of learning in museum
settings. [PDF 41k]
Janette Griffin, UTS.
Evaluating Learning. [Doc 62k]
Linda Ferguson, Australian War Memorial
12.15 Lunch
1.15 Poster session: Five
presentations.
Qualitative Research. Philip
Smith, Environmetrics.
National Audiences. Helen Withnell, Australian War
memorial
Evaluation of role-playing in computer interactives.
Maree Young & Lisa McCauley, Te Papa, NZ. Abstract
here.
Children as Respondents. Judy Crabb, Australian War
Memorial.
Evaluating the Internet. Anne Scates, Australian
Museum.
3.00 Afternoon tea
3.30 Strategic role of evaluation in
museums and cultural sessions: Panel session
Richard Gillespie, Museum of Victoria
Leigh Small, Sydney Dance Company
Visitor and Market Research at Te Papa
[PDF 69k]
Christine Fitzgerald, Te Papa, NZ.
Strategic positioning of Visitor
Studies [PDF 54k]
Tim Sullivan, Australian Museum.
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Wednesday, 5 August 1998
9.00 Leisure in 21st Century
Paul Jonson
9.45 Questions/discussion
10.00 Cultural Trends, a statistical
overview [PDF 196k]
Barry Haydon.
10.45 Questions/discussion
11.00 Morning tea
11.30 Where are we going?: Discussion
groups
12.30 Lunch
1.30 Report back/discussion: Chaired by
Lynda Kelly
2.30 Culture in 21st Century
Kay Saunders.
3.30 Action for the future: Plenary
session
4.30 Close
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