Evaluation has played an important role in facilitating science and technology museums as an effective lifelong learning platform to cultivate scientific citizenship. Framed by sociocultural theory and situated learning theory, this article reviewed the existing theoretical and empirical evaluation studies in science and technology museum education field. Specifically, this article synthesized museum education evaluation from five dimensions, including (1) stakeholders'thoughts and ideas about science and technology museum education, (2) visiting process, (3) visiting effects, (4) factors that impacted museum visitation, and (5) the development of evaluation framework and instruments. This article may bring insights in understanding the development of science and technology museum education and implementing the evaluation of science and technology museum education in the Chinese context.

science and technology museum education  /  evaluation  /  sociocultural theoretical framework  /  situated learning theory