Impact study of energy education workshops on the participants and their peer teachers
This study investigates the impact of two Department of Energy (DOE) summer energy education workshops, conducted at the University of Maine at Orono (UMO) during the summers of 1980 and 1981, on the 67 DOE participants and the impact of the local inservice energy education workshops, conducted by the DOE participants, on the 67 peer teachers, one selected by each DOE participant. Impact study is defined as a measure of the long-range effect, one or two years after the treatment. The sample consisted of the 50 DOE participants who responded to the survey for participants and of the 29 peer teachers who responded to the survey for peer teachers. It was concluded that the DOE workshops at UMO had a significant effect on the DOE participants' teaching of energy education topics, on their curricular designs, and on their utilization of energy education curricular materials. Also, the peer teachers increased the number of energy topics in their school curriculum after participation in the local inservice energy education workshops. It was found that the DOE participants included significantly more energy education topics in their 1982-1983 school curriculum, used significantly more business or industry produced energy education materials and self-produced units or materials, and utilized both the unit within a course and the separate course curricular designs significantly more than the peer teachers.
- OSTI ID:
- 5141282
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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