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Jensen, Eric, Moss, Andrew and Gusset, Markus (2017) Quantifying long-term impact of zoo and aquarium visits on biodiversity-related learning outcomes. Zoo Biology, 34 (4). pp. 294-297. doi:10.1002/zoo.21372
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Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1002/zoo.21372
Abstract
Zoos and aquariums aim to achieve lasting impact on their public audiences’ awareness of biodiversity, its value, and the steps they can take to conserve it. Here, we evaluate the long-term educational impact of visits to zoos and aquariums on biodiversity understanding and knowledge of actions to help protect biodiversity. A minimum of two years after completing a repeated-measures survey before and after visiting a zoo or aquarium, the same participants were invited to take part in a follow-up online survey. Despite the small number of respondents (n = 161), our study may still represent the best available quantitative evidence pertaining to zoo and aquarium visits’ long-term educational impact. We found that improvements in respondents’ biodiversity understanding from pre- to post-visit leveled off, staying unchanged in the follow-up survey. In contrast, the improved knowledge of actions to help protect biodiversity from pre- to post-visit showed further improvement from post-visit to delayed post-visit follow-up survey. These results suggest that the immediate positive effects of a zoo or aquarium visit on biodiversity-related learning outcomes may be long lasting and even help lay the groundwork for further improvements over an extended period of time following the visit.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | Q Science > QL Zoology | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology | ||||||||
| SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Zoos -- Educational aspects , Public aquariums -- Educational aspects | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Zoo Biology | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0733-3188 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | July 2017 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 34 | ||||||||
| Number: | 4 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 294-297 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1002/zoo.21372 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Publisher Statement: | ** From Crossref via Jisc Publications Router. ** Licence for this article starting on 21-06-2017: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
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