LHS Reports
Evaluation Reports
Executive Summary
Include an executive summary that accurately summarizes the report and is suited (in content and format) to its primary audience.
Purpose
- Clearly state the scope and purpose of the evaluation efforts.
- Describe the scope and purpose of the evaluation report.
- Present one or more explicit problems, questions, or hypotheses.
Explicitly articulate the relationship between evaluation design and project goals.
- Describe how the goals are important to related issues of the museum field or teaching and learning.
- Describe how the study builds on previous related research and evaluation efforts.
Conceptual Framework
- Present a conceptual framework consistent with current and relevant scholarship upon which the research design and analysis is based.
- If applicable: provide a literature review to establish a link between the study and previous research
- Explain and justify the guiding conceptual framework.
Methodology
- Thoroughly, but concisely present a including: samples and sampling procedures, data sources, descriptions of instrumentation (with reliability and validity) and examples of data collection tools.
Results
- Present findings in a way that addresses the problems, questions, or hypotheses and supports assertions or warrants.
- Include data tables, figures, and pictures that are easy to read and add to the understanding of the study.
Conclusions
- Conclusions are supported by data, relate to the problems, questions, or hypotheses and discuss the broader implications of the study for the field in general.
- Present conclusions in a manner relevant to the proposed report audiences.
Dissemination Authority
- Secure authorization form the evaluation client to share the report with LHS Reports audiences.
- If appropriate, identify the funders of the project and/or evaluation.
