Students' Perceptions of the Residential Environmental Education Program at the New Jersey School of Conservation

Abstract

The authors expanded on a previous study of students' perceptions of a residential environmental education program. Immediately prior to the students' departure and again 6 months later, they used the minute-paper and muddiest-point assessment techniques to administer an instrument that explored what students found most meaningful about their experience and most confusing about their experience and what aspect of their experience they would like to repeat. Findings revealed that students' perceptions of their experience changed over time.

Keywords:

• environmental education
• qualitative
• residential
• student perceptions