Evaluation and Impact Assessment of Botanical Gardens

Thank you for taking the time to provide feedback on your programs and initiatives. Your responses will help us better understand how botanic gardens evaluate and measure the impact of their programs and improve future efforts in public engagement and education. We only need one response per botanical garden. The survey will take approximately 10 minutes.

Before you start with the survey, we would like to make sure that we all give the same meaning to the concepts of feedback, evaluation and impact assessment.

* Feedback: Offer a helpful response that is used as a basis for improvement of the activity/ event.

* Evaluation: A systematic method to critically examine the design, implementation, improvements or outcomes of a program.

* Impact assessment: Measuring the effectiveness of a program and judging the extent of changes brought about by this program.

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* 1. Name of your institution

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* 2. What is your job title/ role within the garden?

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* 3. Who is your main audience? Rank your audience, the first being your most common audience. Leave any audience out that you don't have by clicking the Non-Applicable option.

Families

N/A

Students – nursery/primary school

N/A

Students – secondary school

N/A

College and university students

N/A

Scientists

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Botany enthusiasts or amateur botanists

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Local community organisations

N/A

General public

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Others

N/A

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* 4. What kind of programs/ tools have you developed to increase public engagement and awareness? More than 1 option is possible.

Interpretation panels

Guided tour

School program

Children's garden

Event or festival

Webinars/ lectures

Plant advice

Citizen science project

Horticultural demonstration

Herbarium visit

Access to library

Mobile apps or interactive technology

Collaborations with local organisations

Third party event hosting

Other specific program (please specify):

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* 5. What data do you collect of participants of your programs? More than 1 option is possible.

Number of participants at projects/activities

Age

Interests

Duration of participation

Geographic location or residency

Feedback and satisfaction levels

Learning outcomes and knowledge gained

Demographic information related to diversity and inclusion efforts

Other (please specify):

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* 6. Do you evaluate your programs?

Yes, routinely

Yes, occasionally

No, never

Not applicable

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* 7. If yes, how do you usually evaluate your programs? More than 1 option is possible.

Internal assessment

Visitor feedback and satisfaction survey

External third-party evaluation

Other (please specify):

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* 8. Do you have a standardized way to measure visitor satisfaction and feedback?

Yes, we use standardized surveys.

Yes, but we employ other methods. Please specify below.

No, we do not have a standardized method.

Not applicable

Please tell us which other methods you use:

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* 9. Have you ever carried out an impact assessment?

Yes, routinely

Yes, occasionally

No, never

Not applicable

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* 10. If yes, what methods or metrics did you use to assess the impact of your program?

Surveys/ questionnaires

Attendance/ participation numbers

Follow-up interviews/ focus groups

Tracking behavioral changes

Other (please specify):

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* 11. Have you encountered any challenges or limitations in assessing the impact of your programs, and if so, how have you addressed them? Examples of challenges could be limited resources, difficulty in tracking long-term outcomes, or lack of suitable evaluation tools.

Yes (please specify):

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* 12. Pick the project you're most proud of. What is the name of your project/ program?

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* 13. What did you assess of this project? More than 1 option is possible.

Progress made during the project

Achievement of objectives, goals, and scope

Satisfaction levels (Staff, Participants, Client/ Funder if applicable)

Budget management

Time management

Impact of the project

Lessons learned

Not applicable

Other (please specify):

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* 14. We would greatly appreciate receiving the report of the evaluation of your project! If you don't mind sharing it, kindly attach the file here.

PDF, DOC, DOCX, PNG, JPG, JPEG, GIF file types only.

Choose File

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