<b>Evaluation of environmental education activity in the interpretative trail, two to three years after its implementation</b> - DOI: 10.4025/actascibiolsci.174

Abstract

The objective of this work was to carry out a re-evaluation of children which participated in an environmental education (EE) activity in the Interpretative Trail of the UEG, during 2002 and 2003. These children (test group) were contacted in their schools and together with other children, who had never participated in the activity (control group), they had to go through the trail and answer a questionnaire, which was compared with the after-trail questionnaire of the previous activity. Results show that: questionnaires of the test group evidenced cognitive profits in this interval of one or two years of the first exposition to the EE program; however, when compared with the control group, this difference was not significant (p<0.05). This shows that a punctual activity of EE could not be effective in knowledge upgrading. In this sense, many authors recognize the difficulties to evaluate and analyze the repercussions of EE activities.