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e-Bug Pack Evaluation 1 Evaluation Process Evaluation carried out - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
e-Bug Pack Evaluation 1 Evaluation Process Evaluation carried out - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
e-Bug Pack Evaluation 1 Evaluation Process Evaluation carried out in 3 countries Finland Control and Intervention Schools Latvia Denmark Lithuania Ireland England England Poland Junior and Senior Belgium Czech Rep.
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Evaluation Process
Ireland England France Spain Finland Greece Poland Denmark Belgium Czech Rep. Slovenia Latvia Lithuania Hungary Slovakia Croatia England France Czech Rep.
- Control and Intervention
Schools
- Junior and Senior
Schools
- Minimum of 151 students
in each group
- Evaluation carried out in
3 countries
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Regions Evaluated
England Czech Republic France
Gloucester London Bordeaux Nice Prague Ostrava
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Primary Outcome
- Knowledge Change
– Baseline knowledge – Knowledge change – Knowledge retention
- Variables
– Teacher knowledge of microbiology – Class size – Region – Learning disability register
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Secondary Outcome
- Satisfaction
– Teacher Questionnaires – Student Questionnaires – Focus groups
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Knowledge Change Results
- Variable did not have any effect on
knowledge change at any of the time points
- Exception Region
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Introduction to Microbes
- An Introduction
– Make microbes out of paper cut
- uts and Arts & Crafts
materials
- Good Microbes
– Yogurt Making Activity
- Bad Microbes
– Interactive Discussion
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Introduction to Microbes
Control Intervention Baseline Change Retention Baseline Change Retention Gloucester
6.8 (-4.4, 18.0) 33.5 (22.3, 44.7) 33.7 (22.6, 44.9) 32.5 (30.3, 34.7) 29.8 (27.0, 32.6)
London
- Nice
8.1 (-0.7, 16.9) 24.3 (14.5, 34.1) 26.5 (15.5, 37.4) 7.0 (-0.8, 14.7) 30.0 (22.3, 37.8) 32.5 (24.3, 40.6)
Bordeaux
9.3 (-0.6, 19.1) 29.1 (18.8, 39.4) 31.5 (21.3, 41.8) 13.2 (2.2, 24.2) 36.4 (24.2, 48.5) 36.2 (23.8, 48.6)
Prague
3.5 (-4.7, 11.7) 14.1 (5.3, 22.9) 13.4 (4.7, 22.0) 6.0 (-2.4, 14.4) 26.4 (18.0, 34.8) 28.4 (19.9, 36.9)
Ostrava
- 0.7
(-8.7, 7.3) 2.1 (-6.2, 10.4) 11.6 (3.6, 19.6) 4.7 (-3.5, 12.8) 30.8 (22.7, 39.0) 29.1 (21.0, 37.3)
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Introduction to Microbes
Control Change Control Retention e-Bug Change e-Bug Retention Gloucester
London
- Nice
Bordeaux
Prague
Ostrava
Significant improvement in knowledge across all regions No loss in student knowledge over time except Gloucester*
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Spread of Infection
- Hand Hygiene
– Hand washing activity using UV gel/powder to represent microbes
- Respiratory Hygiene
– Sneezing Runway
- Food Hygiene
– Chicken salad activity using UV gel/powder to represent microbes
- n raw chicken
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Spread of Infection
Control Intervention Baseline Change Retention Baseline Change Retention Gloucester
5.7 (-3.5, 14.9) 10.5 (1.3, 19.8) 12.2 (3.0, 21.4) 10.6 (8.6, 12.6) 12.2 (9.6, 14.8)
London
- Nice
2.8 (-4.7, 10.3)
- 7.7
(-16.2, 0.8)
- 2.1
(-11.7, 7.5)
- 3.0
(-9.5, 3.4) 6.2 (-0.3, 12.6) 8.1 (1.2, 14.9)
Bordeaux
1.8 (-6.3, 9.9) 11.5 (3.0, 20.1) 12.4 (3.9, 21.0) 5.0 (-4.0, 14.0) 15.5 (5.3, 25.7) 11.9 (1.5, 22.3)
Prague
3.3 (-3.5, 10.1) 3.4 (-4.1, 10.9) 2.1 (-5.2, 9.4)
- 3.8
(-10.9, 3.3) 9.4 (2.4, 16.5) 6.9 (-0.2, 14.1)
Ostrava
- 4.4
(-11.1, 2.2)
- 5.3
(-12.3, 1.7)
- 4.3
(-11.0, 2.4)
- 2.7
(-9.5, 4.1) 8.6 (1.8, 15.4) 10.7 (3.9, 17.5)
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Spread of Infection
Control Change Control Retention e-Bug Change e-Bug Retention Gloucester London
- Nice
Bordeaux Prague Ostrava
Significant improvement in knowledge across all regions No loss in student knowledge over time
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Treatment / Prevention of Infection
- Vaccinations
– Reading comprehension ‘The story of Edward Jenner’
- Antibiotic Use and
Medicines
– Comic Strip and classroom discussion
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Control Intervention Baseline Change Retention Baseline Change Retention Gloucester
2.8 (-8.4, 14.1) 16.8 (5.5, 28.1) 14.7 (3.5, 25.9) 15.4 (12.6, 18.1) 14.6 (11.1, 18.1)
London
- Nice
15.9 (6.7, 25.0) 24.1 (13.6, 34.6) 12.1 (0.0, 24.3) 13.3 (5.5, 21.1) 22.5 (14.6, 30.3) 27.4 (19.0, 35.9)
Bordeaux
19.0 (9.1, 28.9) 26.9 (16.4, 37.5) 32.2 (21.6, 42.7) 18.7 (7.8, 29.7) 30.8 (18.1, 43.5) 22.3 (9.3, 35.3)
Prague
14.0 (5.7, 22.3) 19.8 (10.5, 29.2) 24.4 (15.4, 33.4) 16.9 (8.2, 25.5) 29.8 (21.2, 38.4) 26.0 (17.3, 34.7)
Ostrava
12.4 (4.3, 20.5) 10.1 (1.4, 18.7) 10.3 (2.1, 18.5) 9.5 (1.2, 17.8) 28.3 (19.9, 36.6) 20.0 (11.7, 28.3)
Treatment / Prevention of Infection
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Control Change Control Retention e-Bug Change e-Bug Retention Gloucester London
- Nice
Bordeaux Prague Ostrava
Significant improvement in knowledge across all regions No loss in student knowledge over time except Gloucester
Treatment / Prevention of Infection
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Knowledge Change Summary
- Significant Improvement in all pack
teaching areas over time
- No reduction in student knowledge after a
6 week period
- Control schools performed equally as well
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Student Satisfaction
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Introduction Good Bad Hand Respiratory Food Vaccines Antibiotics
Disliked OK Liked
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Student Satisfaction
- Likes
– Interesting Facts – Interactive, fun activities – Team work – Seeing and naming the microbes – Characters
- Dislikes
– Waiting too long to take your turn – Some activities too difficult – When the teacher did the work – Finishing the activity!
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Teacher Satisfaction
- Junior Schools
– 100% satisfaction in England and Czech Republic – 3/11 teachers in France said they would NOT use e-Bug in the future
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Teacher Satisfaction
- Teacher Likes
– Interactive – Engaged students
- Teacher dislikes
– Too much photocopying – Some activities too advanced – Yogurt activity not suitable for practical reasons – Pages didn’t photocopy well – Not enough multimedia support
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General Changes
- Photocopying issues
– Merged student handouts – Created handouts in MS PowerPoint – Changed the colour of the resource
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General Changes
- Multimedia Support
– Films of activities – Added alternative activities to website – Included more posters etc on the website – Pack available in MS Word and PDF
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General Changes
- Other
– Provide more alternative materials – Include more prompts and suggestions for teachers – Provide more animations – Introduce an Immunity Section
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Specific Sectional Changes
- Introduction
– Changed arts and craft materials to playdough
- Good and bad
– Changed titles to USEFUL and HARMFUL microbes – Created a new ‘Yeast Races’ activity
- Food Hygiene
– Food Hygiene: Condensed main activity
- Vaccinations