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A Team Approach to Data Collection and Evaluation Planning
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By ETR | July 18, 2016
Note: We’re posting about some of the presentations ETR researchers and professional development specialists are offering at the Office of Adolescent Health Teen Pregnancy Prevention Grantee Conference July 19-21.“Evaluations don’t happen in isolation,” say ETR researchers Pam Drake, PhD and BA Laris, MPH. Programs need to involve developers, administrators, implementers and evaluators to come up with an evaluation plan that will produce meaningful results.
On Wednesday, July 20, they’ll be presenting a poster on A Team Approach to Data Collection and Evaluation Planning. “It’s important to think about both big-scope and smaller questions,” they explain. Here are some factors to keep in mind.
BA Laris, MPH and Pamela Drake, Phd. A Team Approach to Data Collection and Evaluation Planning. Wednesday, 7/20/16, 3:30-5:00 p.m. Poster #209 in the Evaluation Section, East Foyer of the Key Ballroom. - Read More
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Memory and Learning: A Formula for Teen Pregnancy Prevention Impact!
By ETR | July 18, 2016
Note: We're posting about some of the presentations ETR researchers and professional development specialists are offering at the Office of Adolescent Health Teen Pregnancy Prevention Grantee Conference, July 19-20.
Learned anything new lately? Your brain is being bombarded by massive amounts of information every minute—sights, sounds, words, smells, sensations. What happens to all of that info? Thankfully, most of it is forgotten. Your brain takes a look at it and decides what to ignore and when to pay attention.
If you’re an implementer working with teens to build healthy skills for pregnancy prevention, you’ve got critical messages and skills you want these learners to attend to. What should you do? Use amazing brain science to make learning stick!
Attendees at #TPP2016 can meet with two of ETR’s experts on learning and the brain to discuss exactly how to do this. Debra Christopher, MSM, is ETR’s Director of Professional Learning Services. That means she’s our chief guru of training and professional development events. Project Director Tracy Wright, MAED, is an eLearning and professional development specialist who has taught in classrooms, managed programs, provided technical assistance and achieved impressive mastery about the science of learning.
Debra Christopher, MSM and Tracy Wright, MAED. Memory and Learning: A Formula for Teen Pregnancy Prevention Impact! Wednesday 7/20/16, 3:30-5:00 p.m. Poster #107 in the Program Delivery & Improvement Section, East Foyer of the Key Ballroom.
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Some tips you might learn from them:
Boost your own learning. Give new content meaning. Express it in your own words and link it to what you already know. For example, think about something you’ve learned at the conference or elsewhere, then find someone to share this with in your own words. Repeat this process. Each time you do this, you’re elaborating on the material in ways that will help you remember and retrieve it.
Motivate young learners to choose healthy behaviors. Help learners engage, organize and integrate the concepts and skills you are teaching in order to make the learning “stick.” Engagement includes actions such as attaching relevance or creating curiosity. Organizing includes linking to prior knowledge. Integrating includes practice, self-reflection and connecting to real-world contexts.
If you’re at the conference, check out their poster session. This may well be the most interactive poster you’ve ever experienced. In fact, you might encounter a human poster who hands you a brain and some snazzy strategy cards! We guarantee you’ll learning something.
This work has been supported by CDC DASH CONTRACT # 200-2013- F-57593 (PS13-1308).
