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Environmental education evaluation: reinterpreting education as a strategy for meeting mission.
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The ways in which educational goals can and should be linked to conservation outcomes for an agency or organization are examined.About:
This article is published in Evaluation and Program Planning.The article was published on 2010-05-01. It has received 137 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Environmental education & Educational assessment.read more
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Conservation social science: understanding and integrating human dimensions to improve conservation
Nathan J. Bennett,Nathan J. Bennett,Nathan J. Bennett,Robin Roth,Sarah C. Klain,Kai M. A. Chan,Patrick Christie,Douglas A. Clark,Georgina Cullman,Deborah Curran,Trevor J. Durbin,Graham Epstein,Alison Greenberg,Michael Paul Nelson,John Sandlos,Richard C. Stedman,Tara L. Teel,Rebecca E. W. Thomas,Diogo Veríssimo,Carina Wyborn +19 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the scope and purpose of eighteen subfields of classic, interdisciplinary and applied conservation social sciences and articulates ten distinct contributions that the social sciences can make to understanding and improving conservation.
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Environmental education program evaluation in the new millennium: what do we measure and what have we learned?
TL;DR: This article conducted a systematic literature review of peer-reviewed research studies published between 1999 and 2010 that empirically evaluated the outcomes of environmental education programs for youth (ages 18 and younger) in an attempt to address the following objectives: (1) seek reported empirical evidence for what works (or does not) in EE programming and (2) uncover lessons regarding promising approaches for future EE initiatives and their evaluation.
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Environmental education outcomes for conservation: A systematic review
TL;DR: In this paper, a systematic review of research on environmental education's contributions to conservation and environmental quality outcomes is presented, which highlights productive research-implementation spaces where those environmental education outcomes occur, are measured and are reported.
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The impact of electronic environmental knowledge on the environmental behaviors of people
TL;DR: Results indicate that electronic environmental knowledge learning has a direct effect on person's environmental behaviors, and a model for a more comprehensive understanding of the factors that influence on the people environmental behavior is provided.
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Investigating elementary school students' technology acceptance by applying digital game-based learning to environmental education
TL;DR: Investigating elementary school students' acceptance of technology applying digital game-based learning (DGBL) to environmental education finds that the DGBL system is suitable for both genders at all levels of experience and significantly contributes to a learner's intention to use the system.
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The theory of planned behavior
TL;DR: Ajzen, 1985, 1987, this article reviewed the theory of planned behavior and some unresolved issues and concluded that the theory is well supported by empirical evidence and that intention to perform behaviors of different kinds can be predicted with high accuracy from attitudes toward the behavior, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control; and these intentions, together with perceptions of behavioral control, account for considerable variance in actual behavior.
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Belief, Attitude, Intention and Behavior: An Introduction to Theory and Research
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Mind the Gap: why do people act environmentally and what are the barriers to pro-environmental behavior?
Anja Kollmuss,Julian Agyeman +1 more
TL;DR: A number of theoretical frameworks have been developed to explain the gap between the possession of environmental knowledge and environmental awareness, and displaying pro-environmental behavior as discussed by the authors, but no definitive explanation has yet been found.
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The rise of professionalism
TL;DR: In the medical and teaching professions, the importance of narrow responsibilities is consciously and unconsciously emphasized, exaggerating the "dignity" of the functions as mentioned in this paper, and the professional's sense of power and authority flows not only from his actual command over special knowledge but also from his control over interpersonal situations.
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