To properly evaluate the outcomes and effectiveness of the OEP, an ongoing evaluation of the outreach programs and media broadcasts will be carried out by a professional evaluation company. Representative members of community groups, and students and educators will be pre and post tested to measure the efficacy of the concept communication. Selected representative participants will be interviewed at events, exhibits and screenings to assess the impacts of the OEP's efforts. Web site questionares and Discussion Groups forums will compile suggestions and comments.

In addition, the OEP project administrator and participants plan to use both quantitative and qualitative measures to evaluate the effectiveness of the materials produced and distributed. Ongoing feedback will be monitored to follow which schools and school districts are using the program, and how effective it is. The OEP will carefully record use by schools, aquaria, zoos, NGOs, government organizations, and industry stakeholders and use this information to fine-tune the ongoing outreach methodology.

To monitor that teachers are actually using the teaching materials, pop-up feedback features will be built into the CD-ROM, downloadable PDF files or DVD that will prompt educators to register their use of the material at startup, and to periodically download updates. When they register or update the materials, their usage will be confirmed and provide real-time quantitative measurements of how many educators are using the program. And "suggestions box" features will prompt users to provide direct feedback on how to improve later editions of the materials program.