Test what you’ve learned about impact assessment methods! These questions are designed to promote a discussion as much as an agreement on a right answer.
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2. What methods are still emerging and have little agreed methodological approaches?
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To some extent, there is likely to be some economic impact created in most activities, whether this is directly or indirectly. The question remains whether this economic impact is the driver of the activity or if so meaningful that it is worth measuring. |
7. People’s behaviour changes when they’re being observed. True or false?
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True! Read more on Wikipedia. This is something to take into account. Ethically, those who you are observing need to be informed that observation is taking place (e.g. by a sign on the way into an exhibition space) but you should aim to be unobtrusive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer_effect |
8. I do not need a lot of skills to conduct a focus group interview.
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False. The facilitation of focus groups requires specific skills and a lot of preparation. It is not the same as a group meeting. |
9. An online archive wants to track how many people engaged with their digital exhibition. Will they use digital user statistics or social network analysis to do this?
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Digital user statistics - these will answer the question of ‘how many' people engaged. |
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