Research & Evaluation

Exploring Materials: Liquid Crystals

Report date: August, 2008

 

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General Description: 

The Science Museum of Minnesota surveyed 15 visitors who participated in the Exploring Materials: Liquid Crystal activity at NanoDays in August, 2008. This formative evaluation assessed visitors’ interest and enjoyment of the activity, and how easy the program was to understand.

Major Findings: 

The formative evaluation of the Exploring Materials: Liquid Crystal activity found that all visitors surveyed found the program interesting or very interesting, and that over 90% found the activity enjoyable or very enjoyable. Additionally, almost two thirds of visitors found the activity easy to understand and the remaining third found the activity somewhat easy to understand. Most visitors perceived that the main message of the program was about how liquid crystals work.

Type of product(s) studied: 

  • Program

Method(s) of data collection: 

  • surveys

Author(s): 

Sarah Cohn
Claire Philippe

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