Performance Measure A benchmark or specific performance target used to determine the degree to which an outcome is successful.
Personal Interpretation One person or persons proving interpretation to another person or persons.
Interpretation Place-based Education/Learning An interdisciplinary instructional strategy that uses the local environment and community as the context for teaching and learning.
Related Terms: Project-based Education/Learning, Problem based Education/Learning
Preservation The act of protecting a resource for future generations. Cross-reference: conservation; stewardship. (Adapted from Handbook for Museums, Gary Edson and David Dean, Routledge Press, 1996).
Related Terms: Conservation, stewardship
Problem-based Education/Learning An interdisciplinary instructional strategy that engages learners in investigating complex, real-world environmental issues and problem solving as the context for teaching and learning.
Related Terms: Project-based Education/Learning, Place-based Education/Learning
Professional Development A process of learning and keeping up to date in ones area of expertise. The process of progressing in ones chosen career through continuing education and training.
Related Terms: Training
Program Any type of organized, topic-specific presentation or other delivery of information. Types of programs include: Community/outreach program – is a program that:
- Occurs outside of the establish facility or land base
- Is designed for a broad audience within a geographic community
Project-based Education/Learning An interdisciplinary instructional strategy that engages learners in complex, real-world projects and experiences as the context for teaching and learning.
Related Terms: Place-based Education/Learning, Problem-based Education/Learning, Service Learning
Psychomotor An attribute of human experience that describes behaviors, skills, action; often used to describe learning objectives and/or outcomes.
Public Affairs An effort to affect public opinion and perceptions on public policy issues; public affairs builds awareness and helps to shape public opinion via communications and strategies designed to influence the public.
Public Archaeology A process for including the public in or for creating outreach and educational materials based upon the information gleaned from archaeological activity; Another term for cultural
resource management.
Related Terms: Cultural resource management
Public History A process for making the public aware of the value, uses, and pleasures of history and to engage the public in historical activities.