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Brown, Hannah O.; Jacobson, Susan K.; Cockrell, Marcy; Sutt, Jessica; Allen, Katherine; Copeland, Amy – Journal of Extension, 2021
Effectively communicating with diverse groups involved in environmental management is critical to facilitating successful projects. This five-step communication plan is designed to enable resource managers and extension professionals to successfully engage their stakeholders. This plan, which uses oyster reef management as an example, was informed…
Descriptors: Extension Education, Natural Resources, Agricultural Occupations, Agricultural Production
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Márquez-García, Marcela; Jacobson, Susan K.; Barbosa, Olga – Environmental Education Research, 2018
Evaluation is a critical component of any conservation education strategy, but especially important in highly threatened ecosystems where no formal incentives for conservation are available. We assessed the effectiveness of biodiversity education workshops in influencing knowledge, beliefs, personal norms and conservation behaviors among Chilean…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Biodiversity, Workshops, Conservation (Environment)
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Jacobson, Susan K.; Morales, Nia A.; Chen, Beida; Soodeen, Rebecca; Moulton, Michael P.; Jain, Eakta – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2019
Understanding the influence of message framing is critical to promote public support for environmental conservation. We tested six brief, online videos about biodiversity conservation with positive (love and benefits) versus negative (loss and warning) messages with 524 participants. The respondents were willing to donate more money and time to…
Descriptors: Conservation (Environment), Public Opinion, Video Technology, Biodiversity
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Salvatierra da Silva, Daniela; Jacobson, Susan K.; Monroe, Martha C.; Israel, Glenn D. – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2016
An evaluability assessment of a program to save a critically endangered bird helped prepare the Blue-throated Macaw Environmental Education Project for evaluation and program improvement. The evaluability assessment facilitated agreement among key stakeholders on evaluation criteria and intended uses of evaluation information in order to maximize…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Animals, Environmental Education, Resource Allocation
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Engels, Christine Archer; Jacobson, Susan K. – Journal of Environmental Education, 2007
The authors evaluated the environmental education program of the Golden Lion Tamarin Association in Brazil by comparing results of a 2001 survey with baseline data from 1986. Responses of 666 residents and results from 4 focus groups revealed an increase in public support for the tamarin and its habitat and an increase in general environmental…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Support, Focus Groups, Environmental Education
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Jacobson, Susan K.; Padua, Suzana M. – Childhood Education, 1992
Describes two conservation education programs that target local primary schools and use national parks in Malaysian Borneo (Kinabalu Park) and central Brazil (Morro do Diabo Park). Both were designed using a comprehensive systems evaluation model and both resulted in cognitive and affective gains for students. (LB)
Descriptors: Conservation (Environment), Cooperative Programs, Developing Nations, Ecology
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Padua, Suzana; Jacobson, Susan K. – Journal of Environmental Education, 1993
Evaluated the Morro do Diabo State Park environmental education program using the Planning-Process-Product evaluation model. Formative evaluation provided educators with continuous feedback to improve activities. A study of 144 students from grades 5-8 who visited the park to develop environmental awareness demonstrated that the program was…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Conservation (Environment), Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education