PMID- 29031191
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20180725
LR  - 20221207
IS  - 1873-7870 (Electronic)
IS  - 0149-7189 (Linking)
VI  - 66
DP  - 2018 Feb
TI  - The effectiveness of a head-heart-hands model for natural and environmental 
      science learning in urban schools.
PG  - 53-62
LID - S0149-7189(17)30129-5 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2017.09.001 [doi]
AB  - We describe an environmental and natural science program called Nurture thru 
      Nature (NtN) that seeks to improve mathematics and science performance of 
      students in disadvantaged communities, and to increase student interest in 
      Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) careers. The program 
      draws conceptual guidance from the Head-Heart-Hands model that informs the 
      current educational movement to foster environmental understanding and 
      sustainability. Employing an experimental design and data from seven cohorts of 
      students, we find some promising, albeit preliminary, indications that the 
      program can increase students' science knowledge and grades in mathematics, 
      science and language arts. We discuss the special adaptations that environmental 
      and sustainability education programs need to incorporate if they are to be 
      successful in today's resource depleted urban schools.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
FAU - Jagannathan, Radha
AU  - Jagannathan R
AD  - Bloustein School of Planning & Public Policy, Rutgers University, United States. 
      Electronic address: radha@rutgers.edu.
FAU - Camasso, Michael J
AU  - Camasso MJ
AD  - School of Environmental & Biological Sciences, Rutgers University, United States. 
      Electronic address: mcamasso@sebs.rutgers.edu.
FAU - Delacalle, Maia
AU  - Delacalle M
AD  - Bloustein School of Planning & Public Policy, Rutgers University, United States. 
      Electronic address: maia.delacalle@gmail.com.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Randomized Controlled Trial
DEP - 20170918
PL  - England
TA  - Eval Program Plann
JT  - Evaluation and program planning
JID - 7801727
SB  - IM
MH  - Black or African American
MH  - Ecology/education
MH  - Hispanic or Latino
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Knowledge
MH  - Language Arts
MH  - Mathematics/education
MH  - Natural Science Disciplines/*education
MH  - New Jersey
MH  - Problem-Based Learning/*organization & administration
MH  - Science/education
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Experimental design
OT  - Nurture thru Nature (NtN)
OT  - STEM education
OT  - Science and math grades
EDAT- 2017/10/17 06:00
MHDA- 2018/07/26 06:00
CRDT- 2017/10/15 06:00
PHST- 2017/04/20 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2017/08/17 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2017/09/14 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2017/10/17 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2018/07/26 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2017/10/15 06:00 [entrez]
AID - S0149-7189(17)30129-5 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2017.09.001 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Eval Program Plann. 2018 Feb;66:53-62. doi: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2017.09.001. 
      Epub 2017 Sep 18.