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Cheeseman, Adam; Wright, Tarah – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2020
While many studies have investigated environmental education programs, fewer have focused on the longer-term effects of these interventions. This study provides insight into the longer-term influences of an earth education summer camp in Nova Scotia, Canada. Data were collected using a semi-structured interview process with seven parents of…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Summer Programs, Foreign Countries, Resident Camp Programs
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Barnett, Jerrold E. – Adolescence (San Diego): an international quarterly devoted to the physiological, psychological, psychiatric, sociological, and educational aspects of the second decade of human life, 2006
To test the efficacy of Baby-Think-It-Over (BTIO) infant simulators, two versions of a sexuality education program were compared. While the program was designed to include BTIO as an important teaching technique, two schools (49 students) opted not to use them. These students completed all elements of the program except the BTIO activities. Their…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Sexuality, Adolescent Attitudes, Simulation
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Government Reform. – 2001
This hearing focuses on the evaluation of the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign. Specifically, the subcommittee was interested in measuring whether significant taxpayer investment has been effective in accomplishing the objectives of the campaign-- reaching the target audience, changing young peoples attitudes about drugs, encouraging…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Change Agents, Drug Education, Government Role
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Dielman, T. E. – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 1994
Reviews school-based approaches to prevention of adolescent alcohol use and abuse undertaken in the 1950s through the 1970s and discusses problems associated with such studies, remedies to these problems, and current school-based approaches. Also discusses the Alcohol Misuse Prevention Study, a longitudinal intervention undertaken in the 1980s to…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescents, Alcohol Abuse, Drinking