The Mozart School and Myer developed a simple checklist to measure the content and skills students acquired through researching and role-playing interviews with historical characters. Criteria included whether the students presented basic information on the character's life, describing the character's contribution to history and whether students expressed themselves in complete sentences and maintained good eye contact and volume. Successful evaluation plans often combine qualitative and quantitative methods. Artists, teachers and administrators may have different goals for a residency. Using many evaluation methods can show how each goal is being met.
Evaluation can yield unanticipated results and questions, so try to remain flexible.
A problem may have many solutions. Focusing on it keeps us open to trying out many different possibilities. Evaluation can be most effective when integrated into every phase of a program. Ongoing evaluation helps us keep track of what we did and whether or not it worked. Evaluation can also be approached in many creative ways.