Potential Guidelines for Conducting and Reporting Environmental Education Research: Quantitative Methods of Inquiry

Abstract

This paper presents potential guidelines for conducting and reporting environmental education research using quantitative methods of inquiry that were developed during a 10-hr (1-1/2 day) workshop sponsored by the North American Commission on Environmental Education Research during the 1998 annual meeting of the North American Association for Environmental Education. The guidelines represent the efforts of 20 environmental education practitioners, researchers, and scholars, and are offered in the spirit of academic and intellectual collaboration and cooperation. The author hopes that, by sharing workshop outcomes with the broader environmental education research community, opportunities for comment and—if necessary—revision of the guidelines will be maximized.

Key Words:

• guidelines
• quantitative
• research

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N. J. Smith-sebasto

N. J. Smith-Sebasto is the acting director of Montclair State University's New Jersey School of Conservation, the oldest and largest university-operated environmental education field center in the United States.