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- Title
Pre-Test Post-Test Pilot Assessment of Environmental Education on Youth's Knowledge and Intended Behavior Changes.
- Authors
Bradley, Michael J.; Sharp, Ryan L.; Bradley, Christina; Riley, Tessa
- Abstract
Middle school students in central Kentucky often visit Eastern Kentucky University's Maywoods during a fall or spring semester for a day of environmental education programming. As part of the comprehensive program, teachers prepare students for a day of environmental education and debrief after the day at Maywoods. This project investigated various assessment methods to identify if such program would affect overall environmental education scores of participants. A pretest-posttest design highlighted no significant differences of environmental education scores between the pretest and posttest. While repeat studies are needed to confirm findings, current insignificant differences between the two tests could encourage the need to identify the necessary programmatic changes for group visitors of Maywoods. Programmatic changes on site, coupled with innovative methods to increase environmentally friendly behaviors among youth, is warranted to meet science education standards and increase knowledge retention.
- Subjects
ENVIRONMENTAL education; YOUTH psychology; EASTERN Kentucky University
- Publication
Kentucky SHAPE JOURNAL, 2017, Vol 54, Issue 2, p24
- ISSN
1071-2577
- Publication type
Article