Using Digital Photography and Journaling in Evaluation of Field-Based Environmental Education Programs
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
Interest, curiosity and engagement are critical intermediary outcomes in environmental education programs, many of which ultimately work toward enhancing participants' environmental attitudes, knowledge, skills, and behaviors. Methods to measure the construct of “interest” in the context of environmental education have the potential to enhance program evaluation practices yet remain underdeveloped. Therefore, we investigated how situational interest was triggered among participants in an environmental education camp and tested two participant-driven tools for exploring interest within this setting: digital photography and journaling. Findings suggest that several key domains of interest may be revealed by using photography and journaling concurrently and/or independently as evaluation tools. We discuss potential benefits and challenges of their use for evaluating environmental education programs.
Highlights
•Interest is a key intermediary outcome in environmental education (EE) programs, yet tracking tools are underdeveloped.
•This study piloted participant-driven tools to assess interest as an intermediary outcome of EE in informal settings.
•Findings demonstrated an array of triggers of situational interest, including non-human animals and social interactions.
•Embedded tools are promising for evaluating interest, yet challenges remain to implementation, replication, and validity.
Description
Type of resource | text |
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Date created | 2013 |
Creators/Contributors
Author | Ardoin, Nicole M | |
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Author | DiGiano, Maria | |
Author | Bundy, Jennifer | |
Author | Chang, Stephanie | |
Author | Holthuis, Nicole | |
Author | O'Connor, Kathleen |
Subjects
Subject | environmental education |
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Subject | education |
Subject | digital photography |
Subject | journaling |
Genre | Article |
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- Ardoin et al. Using digital photography and journaling in evaluation of field-based environmental education programs. Studies in Educational Evaluation (2013), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.stueduc.2013.09.009
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