Education Program Evaluation at Multiple Primate Sanctuaries in Equatorial Africa |
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Authors: | Christopher W Kuhar Tammie L Bettinger Kathy Lehnhardt Barb Cartwright Doug Cress |
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Institution: | (1) Disney’s Animal Kingdom?, Orlando, FL 32830, USA;(2) Present address: Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, Cleveland, OH 44109, USA;(3) Pan African Sanctuary Alliance, Portland, OR 97283, USA |
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Abstract: | The past decade has witnessed a shift in the role of primate sanctuaries in Africa from warehouses of salvaged animals to
proactive conservation organizations. As part of this new role, the Pan African Sanctuary Alliance (PASA) has conducted annual
training workshops for educators from member sanctuaries. These workshops have included content on program development, interpretive
techniques, and evaluation techniques. Here we use meta-analytic techniques to examine data from the resulting education evaluation
programs for trends in knowledge acquisition across PASA sanctuaries. Question content strongly impacted the evaluation results
of the conservation education program. In addition, effect size and final performance scores were independent of one another
and provide different perspectives as to the effectiveness of a conservation education program. These results highlight the
importance of using both final performance scores and effect size measures in conservation education program evaluation. They
also underscore the importance of evaluating knowledge transfer as part of the larger picture of evaluating pro-environmental
behavior change and conservation impact. |
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