Review on the Evaluation of Informal Science Education
Along with the closer cooperation between formal science education and informal science education,more and more researchers have started to explore the possible activated forms of science learning in informal environment,and tried to adopt more normalized and diversified standards and technologies to evaluate its effect.However,informal science education has a rather complicated learning process.The learning model familiar with formal education cannot be directly used in informal science education,and the evaluation of informal science education has posed a severe challenge to the current science education research.This paper has combed through the current research on the evaluation of informal science education projects,discussed the progress that had been made in the basic issues,logical models,development and design of informal science education projects'evaluation research,and then made a key review on the diversity of evaluation methods and the standardization of evaluation indicators.