The Nature Education Assessment Framework (NEAF) is being developed by Tanaya Rele of Nature Classrooms, with the support of the Inlaks Ravi Sankaran Small Grants Programme as an open-source tool to assess the effectiveness of nature education programmes and other nature learning initiatives. It aims to provide a holistic assessment of nature education/conservation education programmes by assessing the knowledge, attitude and behaviour of participants before and after the intervention through a set of collaboratively designed qualitative and quantitative tools including existing scales and peer-reviewed literature. NEAF seeks for honest feedback from the target group which will also highlight the areas in which the intervening organisation or individual needs to address and course correct. 

 

This framework will also be trialled collaboratively through nature education initiatives and reviewed by education practitioners, to make it replicable, unbiased, easy-to-use and relevant to the nature and conservation education community in India.

 

The objectives of this project are listed below:

1. Designing a framework for Nature Classrooms to assess the ongoing nature education projects through a pre and post intervention study.

2. To explore the relationship that teachers and students share with nature, assess their understanding about the environment and determine how nature learning interventions influence this dynamic.ii)

3. To understand and assess the impact of age-appropriate nature learning interventions on students’ attitudes and perceptions towards local biodiversity.