Gathering feedback is an important step in any event, accessible events are no exception, an evaluation is important because it can help you to understand, verify or increase the impact of your event. These are methods to collect Information, you can use one or more of them for gathering feedback, depending on your needs: questionnaires, surveys, checklists: you can use these when you need to quickly and easily get lots of information from the public. The advantages are: they can be completed anonymously, are inexpensive to administer, are easy to compare and analyze, you can get lots of data, and many sample questionnaires are ready for use. However, there are some challenges too: you might not get careful feedback, the wording of questions can bias the patrons’ responses, they are often impersonal, you don’t get the full story Therefore, interviews are good when you want to fully understand someone's impressions or experiences, or learn more about their answers to questionnaires. The advantages are: you get full range and depth of information you develops a relationship with the participants you can be flexible with the participants challenges: they can take much time, they can be hard to analyze and compare, they can be costly, the interviewer can bias the participants’ responses Observation is another way to gather accurate information about how an event actually operates, especially if you want to find out about processes. The advantages are: you can watch the operations of a program as they are actually occurring you can adapt to events as they occur The challenge are: it can be difficult to interpret the behaviors that you observe it can be complex to categorize observations observation can influence the behavior of participants Focus groups explore a topic in depth through group discussion, e.g.,they are about reactions to an experience or suggestions, understanding common complaints, etc. The advantages are: you quickly and reliably get common impressions they can be an efficient way to get much range and depth of information in a short time they can convey key information The challenges are: they can be hard to analyze responses you need a good facilitator for safety and closure it can be difficult to schedule 6-8 people together Case studies are useful to fully understand experiences, and conduct comprehensive research through cross comparison of cases The advantages are: they fully depict participants’ experiences with regard to program input, process and results they are a powerful means to provide feedback to outsiders The challenges are: they are usually quite time consuming to collect, organize and describe they offer depth of information, rather than breadth Is recommended to combine methods, for example a questionnaire to quickly collect a great deal of information from a lot of people, and then interviews to get more in-depth information from certain respondents to the questionnaires, so you can analyze and interpret the information more broadly, analyzing the information quantitatively and qualitatively.. To analyze the data always start with a review of your goals, this will help to organize your data and focus your analysis. For example, if you wanted to improve by identifying strengths and weaknesses, you can organize data into strengths, weaknesses and suggestions to improve.