Designing Our Tomorrow was a complex project with many different deliverables. Throughout the project, evaluation activities were used for many purposes: help monitor team engagement in continuous improvement, provide accountability, build knowledge, and inform project deliverables. For example, findings from front-end and formative evaluation activity guided the development of the Creatividad silvestre | Wild Creativity exhibit.
Much of the evaluation was conducted by OMSI evaluation staff. However, the research components of the project were evaluated through an external Research Overview Committee and the summative evaluation was conducted by an independent, external evaluator: Rockman et al.