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How to Retain Participants in Visitor Research Studies

By Michelle Mileham & Laureen Trainer

Research and evaluation projects allow museums to engage their communities, visitors, and non-visitors in various ways, but without anyone to participate in them, we are left with only our protocols and questions. That’s why strong …
Essential Evaluators: Snapshot | Data Decisions

By Laureen Trainer and Andréa Giron Mathern

Essential Evaluators seeks to gather evaluators in a common space to dialogue, reflect, and support each other in a world upended by COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matter protest movement. This is a time of uncertain and unknown expectations …

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