This is a link to a toolkit that its authors say will help outdoor education or interpretation practitioners evaluate the outdoor learning experiences. Whether you work for a botanical garden, national or city park, nature reserve, wetland, or arboretum, this resource will enable you to explore the impact
of your outdoor learning programmes and interpretation efforts. There are sections on:
Step 1: Your research idea or evaluation aims Step 2: Finding out what is known about your topic Step 3: Devising your methodology Step 4: Ethical consideration Step 5: Collecting your data Step 6: Making sense of your findings Step 7: Writing up
1: Interviews as creative conversations 2: Focus groups or group interviews 3: Participatory mapping 4: Participant observation 5: Filming in research 6: Qualitative spatial mapping