Resources
Here you can find a library of prior research on environmental education along with network resources such as meeting slides, notes, and worksheets.
Residential/Overnight Environmental Education Programs
- Influence of preparation and adult support on program attendance
- Links between teaching approaches and student outcomes
- Observed and self-reported student engagement and environmental literacy outcomes
- Relationships between student needs, engagement, and environmental literacy outcomes
- The impact of role models
- Evaluating a constructivist and culturally responsive approach to EE
- Assessing outcomes of a residential EE program
- Developing trust in residential EE
Field Trip Environmental Education Programs
- National study of approaches associated with better student outcomes
- National study of differential impacts of EE field trips on diverse students
- Field trips and the experiential learning cycle
- Availability and distribution of EE field trip programs across the US
- The impact of pre-visit preparation and post-visit activities on student outcomes
- Influence of educator’s emotional support on student outcomes
- Use of civic engagement, advocacy, and behavior change in EE
- Outcomes for youth across sociopolitical contexts
- The impact of pedagogical approaches across sociopolitical contexts
- Influence of a natural setting on EE outcomes
- Links between naturalness and learning outcomes
Environmental Education Outcomes
- Identifying cross-cutting outcomes for EE (EE21)
- Civic engagement outcomes in EE
- Positive youth development outcomes in EE
- EE outcomes for conservation
- EE and K-12 student outcomes
- A practitioner guide for assessing connection to nature
- Development of scales to measure environmental responsibility, character development, and attitudes towards school
- Literature review on promising practices and outcomes measured in EE programs