Museum of Modern Art NY School Program Evaluation Study Year I
link coming soon
1988-1989
Principal Researcher: Abigail Housen
Senior Research Associate: Karin DeSantis
Treatment: 5-part school program: MoMA lecturer conference with classroom teacher; in-classroom presentation by MoMA lecturer; museum visit led by museum lecturer; follow-up in-classroom presentation by MoMA lecturer; participation by classroom teacher in 4 Teacher Training Workshops
Assessment tools: Pre and post Aesthetic Development Interviews, questionnaires, teacher debriefings, teacher journals, visual literacy questions
Subjects: 72 teachers
11 MoMA staff
71 6th grade students
83 11th grade students
20 MoMA Saturday Classes students Total Subjects: 257
Findings:
The treatment caused little or no growth in aesthetic stage for most groups. Grasp of visual literacy concepts varies by aesthetic stage. Most participants, both students and teachers, are beginner viewers. The transmission of aesthetic ideas is affected by the relative stages of teachers, lecturers and students. The higher intensity programs in which teachers present all lessons themselves, with the aid of museum staff, are more likely to produce measurable impact.
Site Coordinator: Nancy Lee Miller
link to MoMA Year 2 1989-90, #4 coming soon