Drug Education in Schools: An Evaluation of the "Double Take" Video Package

by Christine Eiser, J. Richard Eiser

Overview

"Double Take" is a drug education package produced by the Department of Health and Social Security (United Kingdom). This video package was distributed at no cost to all secondary schools catering to students from eleven years onwards in England and Wales during 1986. This book reports the results of a research evaluation of this educational package, particularly in terms of its acceptability to teachers and pupils. The evaluation discussed in this book was conducted deliberately within the context of organizational and methodological restrictions. The primary concern was less with the potential effectiveness of "Double Take" under optimal conditions. Rather, the investigators were interested in the ways in which teachers themselves chose to adopt and integrate the package within existing courses and with the restrictions of pupils in their schools.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780387967929
Publisher:	Springer New York
Publication date:	08/01/1988
Series:	Recent Research in Psychology
Edition description:	1988
Pages:	156
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.01(d)

Table of Contents

1 Previous research on drug abuse and its prevention among school children.- 2 A survey of the extent of use of “Double Take” in schools and teachers’ evaluations of the package.- 3 An observation and evaluation based on “Minder”.- 4 A second evaluation of “Double Take” in a local school.- 5 An experimental investigation of pupils’ responses to “Minder” and “Thinking Twice”.- 6 The impact of “Double Take” as a function of region and extent of use.- 7 Attitudes, attributions and persuasion: How young people’s ideas about drugs relate to their preferences for different strategies of prevention.- 8 Analysis and synthesis: the status of “Double Take” in the school curriculum.- Appendix A: Questionnaires used by teachers.- Appendix B: Questionnaires used by pupils.- References.