Evaluating Meaningful Watershed Educational Experiences: An exploration into the effects on participating students鈥?environmental stewardship characteristics and the relationships between these predictors of environmentally responsible behavior
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- 作者：Michaela Zinta ; zintmich@umich.edu" class="auth_mail ; Anita Kraemerb ; Giselle Kolenicc
- 关键词：Program evaluation ; Environmental education ; Outdoor education ; Behavior ; Multilevel analysis ; Path analysis
- 刊名：Studies in Educational Evaluation
- 出版年：June 2014
- 年：2014
- 卷：41
- 期：Complete
- 页码：4-17
- 全文大小：532 K
文摘
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We evaluated a grant program funding watershed education.
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We assessed changes in students’ environmental stewardship characteristics and to what extent these were associated with specific instructional practices.
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Watershed education can increase students’ environmental stewardship characteristics and therefore, their environmentally responsible behaviors.
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Students are more likely to increase in environmental stewardship characteristics if they are engaged in specific science inquiry steps and participate in more or certain types of environmental actions.
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Environmental stewardship characteristics predict intention to act and interact in complex ways.