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Reporting back environmental exposure data and free choice learning
Reporting data back to study participants is increasingly being integrated into exposure and biomonitoring studies. Informal science learning opportunities are valuable in environmental health literacy efforts and report back efforts are filling an important gap in these efforts. Using the Universit...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4707004/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26748908 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12940-015-0080-1 |
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author | Ramirez-Andreotta, Monica D. Brody, Julia Green Lothrop, Nathan Loh, Miranda Beamer, Paloma I. Brown, Phil |
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description | Reporting data back to study participants is increasingly being integrated into exposure and biomonitoring studies. Informal science learning opportunities are valuable in environmental health literacy efforts and report back efforts are filling an important gap in these efforts. Using the University of Arizona’s Metals Exposure Study in Homes, this commentary reflects on how community-engaged exposure assessment studies, partnered with data report back efforts are providing a new informal education setting and stimulating free-choice learning. Participants are capitalizing on participating in research and leveraging their research experience to meet personal and community environmental health literacy goals. Observations from report back activities conducted in a mining community support the idea that reporting back biomonitoring data reinforces free-choice learning and this activity can lead to improvements in environmental health literacy. By linking the field of informal science education to the environmental health literacy concepts, this commentary demonstrates how reporting data back to participants is tapping into what an individual is intrinsically motivated to learn and how these efforts are successfully responding to community-identified education and research needs. |
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spelling | pubmed-47070042016-01-11 Reporting back environmental exposure data and free choice learning Ramirez-Andreotta, Monica D. Brody, Julia Green Lothrop, Nathan Loh, Miranda Beamer, Paloma I. Brown, Phil Environ Health Commentary Reporting data back to study participants is increasingly being integrated into exposure and biomonitoring studies. Informal science learning opportunities are valuable in environmental health literacy efforts and report back efforts are filling an important gap in these efforts. Using the University of Arizona’s Metals Exposure Study in Homes, this commentary reflects on how community-engaged exposure assessment studies, partnered with data report back efforts are providing a new informal education setting and stimulating free-choice learning. Participants are capitalizing on participating in research and leveraging their research experience to meet personal and community environmental health literacy goals. Observations from report back activities conducted in a mining community support the idea that reporting back biomonitoring data reinforces free-choice learning and this activity can lead to improvements in environmental health literacy. By linking the field of informal science education to the environmental health literacy concepts, this commentary demonstrates how reporting data back to participants is tapping into what an individual is intrinsically motivated to learn and how these efforts are successfully responding to community-identified education and research needs. BioMed Central 2016-01-09 /pmc/articles/PMC4707004/ /pubmed/26748908 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12940-015-0080-1 Text en © Ramirez-Andreotta et al. 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Commentary Ramirez-Andreotta, Monica D. Brody, Julia Green Lothrop, Nathan Loh, Miranda Beamer, Paloma I. Brown, Phil Reporting back environmental exposure data and free choice learning |
title | Reporting back environmental exposure data and free choice learning |
title_full | Reporting back environmental exposure data and free choice learning |
title_fullStr | Reporting back environmental exposure data and free choice learning |
title_full_unstemmed | Reporting back environmental exposure data and free choice learning |
title_short | Reporting back environmental exposure data and free choice learning |
title_sort | reporting back environmental exposure data and free choice learning |
topic | Commentary |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4707004/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26748908 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12940-015-0080-1 |
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