The Earth Island Institute’s KIDS for the BAY’s (KftB) Four Rs Action Program is a hands-on environmental education program for third, fourth, and fifth grade students and their teachers. The participating classrooms join a KftB program instructor for a year long program. The program includes five two-hour long workshops focusing on reducing, reusing, recycling, and composting waste; in-class mini-action projects that reduce waste and conserve resources; a year long waste reduction action project that students choose, plan, and implement; and training and support for teachers. KftB uses formative and summative evaluation methods to collect data from students and teachers to measure the impact of the program on both groups and the effectiveness of the program content and delivery. Results will be used to improve the program and inform future evaluations.
Four Rs Action Program: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, & Rot Program Evaluation
Summary:
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Program Search Terms
Evaluation Search Terms
Settings:
Formal
Program Type:
Lesson/Unit/Curriculum
Issue Investigation/ Service Learning
Topic:
Pollution
Recycling/Waste Reduction
Audience:
Primary School
Teachers
Evaluation Type:
Process/Implementation
Outcome
Impact
Evaluator:
Internal
Outputs:
Activity Implementation
Satisfaction
Outcomes:
Knowledge
Attitudes/Values
Skills
Behaviors
Impacts:
Environment
Approach:
Quantitative
Qualitative
Data Collection:
Questionnaires/Surveys
Design:
Pre-test
Post-test
Retention/Follow-up Test
Analysis - Quantitative Data:
Descriptive Statistics
Inferential Statistics
Analysis - Qualitative Data:
Key Incident Analysis
Content Analysis w/ Categorization of Responses
Content Analysis w/ Descriptive Statistics
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Year:
2007
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Source:
KIDS for the BAY
Instruments:
A complete set of evaluation instruments is available in the report