Evaluation Plan for Secret Lives of Public

SpacesEvaluators: Dorie Evensen and Wil Del Pilar

September 21, 2011

  Obtain data on ticket-buying SURVEY randomly selected student ticket-

buyers◦ Number of events attending◦ Class assigned vs. voluntary◦ Involvement in performing arts◦ Importance of performing arts (in own life)◦ Perception of importance of performing arts

across campus SURVEY Integrated Arts 5 Class SURVEY ~500 randomly selected students

Campus Context: State of the Performing Arts at PSU

Related to the Creative Campus Grant Related to Penn State Contribution Related to individual contributions

INVENTORY OF INPUTS: What is investment?

Assumptions about learning learning involves increased levels of

participation within communities of practice◦ focus groups on HOW levels of

participation change over course of project

learning involves changing identities◦ interviews on HOW boundaries are

crossed among disciplinary actors

OBSERVATION OF OUTPUTS: PROCESS ORIENTED

◦ Inner Circle: Dancers, Designers, Engineers

◦Middle Circle: Idea Lab◦Outer Circle: Audiences

spontaneous co-participants crafted invited voluntary

Circles of Participation

Ethnographic observations of/reflection on activities

Document analyses of publications (hard copy and electronic/text visual)

Evaluating Process

Short –term (individual)

Surveys of learning outcomes among participants

Intermediate (collective)

Analysis of activities related to final production re interdisciplinary teams dance troupes design teams audience responses

Long-term (institutional)

What are residual/continuing physical effects of project? What are residual/continuing climate effects of project? What are future plans for interdisciplinary collaborations? What new social collectives have been formed? What new investments in the performing arts are forthcoming? What new position (if any) has the performing arts achieved on campus?

ASSESSING CHANGE IN TERMS OF LEARNING: PRODUCT ORIENTED

Rosters of participants (with contact info) Schedule of events Open lines of communication/access

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