Fedler, A. J. (Ed.) Finding 10

Develop program design and content to adhere to guiding principles for boating, fishing, and aquatic stewardship education. The program:

  • Relies on a variety of systematic and continuous approaches to the assessment of participants and evaluation of programs so as to improve and eventually validate those programs.

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Michelsen, A. M., J. T. McGuckin, et al. (1999) Finding 1

Use a “water demand” mathematical model to provide feedback to citizens and to demonstrate the effect of community water conservation outreach programs. Maintain records describing which specific outreach programs were initiated to address which specific community environmental concerns and/or audiences in order to have sufficient data to interpret evaluation results. Continue reading →

Napier, T. L., & Sommers, D. G. (1996) Finding 1

Assure that intervention programs are relevant to perceived needs of farmers, relevant to cultural milieu of subgroups, and relevant to specific environmental needs:

  • Cultural and farm-structure differences must be considered when intervention strategies are developed to bring about behavioral changes among specific groups
  • Potential Mennonite adaptors have to be convinced that adoption of conservation tillage will be profitable and not threaten the values of the collective group

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