Evaluación de programas educativos en museos: una nueva perspectiva

INTRODUCTION. In the current article we present the Qualitative Assessment of Spanish Mu-seums Educative Programs R&D project, funded by the office of Economy and Competitiveness (MICINN-12EDU-27835). The aim is to locate the good practices profile. This project means an alternative focus to the educative and cultural assessment in the Spanish museums. The develo-pment of ECPEME has meant an alternative focus from the methodological tradition applied in the museums of Spain. The final goal is to create a good museum environment practice profile. METHOD. Based on 13 Spanish museums, the assessment design applied has been observatio-nal. In addition, the information has been gathered through various procedures; field diaries, observation records, interviews, and discussion groups. The information analysis has been based on: a) descriptive analysis, b) a cross-sectional survey, c) an assessment done by the research team. RESULTS. The results show that the more important data are those obtained from the cross-sectional analysis of the multiple study case through a statistic-descriptive treatment as it shows satisfactory quality levels of the cultural and educative action in the museums. These re-sults confirm the data collected by the qualitative analysis, not present in this study due to its considerable extension, but available online at the ECPEME site (http://ecpeme.com/). In addi-tion, we also consider as a result, the application of a specific methodological design we present for educative programs adapted to the museum environment. DISCUSSION. Finally, the impact is discussed, and the evaluation process is revised based on the focus group, done as meta-evalua-tion, thus, closing the project. INTRODUCTION. Dans cet article on décrit la conception et les résultats du Project I+D+I Éva-luation Qualitative de Programmes Éducatifs dans des Musées Espagnols (ECPEME), financé par le Ministère d’Économie et Compétitivité (MICINN-12EDU-27835). Le développement de l’ECPEME a entraîné l’essor d’une approche alternative à la tradition méthodologique qu’on a longtemps été menée dans les musées espagnols pour évaluer leur actions éducatives et culture-lle. Leur but ultime est celui de définir un profil de bonnes pratiques éducatives dans le cadre des musées. MÉTHODE. La conception d’évaluation appliquée a été basée sur l’observation en pre-nant comme référence les programmes d’éducation de 13 musées espagnols. L’information a été prise par différents procédures: jour