A review of thousands of papers - through an extensive search of multiple education, environmental, resource, and resource management journals and journal databases - identified studies of adult outreach and education that could claim to identify best education practices for specific audiences.

We undertook this study because while many environmental education research papers recommend education practices, few of these papers focus on adult audiences, and few identify education practices that are best for specific audience groups. Few resource management papers test specific education practices, relying instead on the admonition that good resource management needs to be accompanied by outreach to the public or to a target audience.

• What is a target audience?

• Use target audience information in planning your outreach initiative:
  • Gather your own information about the target audience.
  • Use study-specific research summaries for one or more of the 15 target audiences
  • Search the target audience database

• Read a description of our search methods:

Literature Search for Audience-Specific Best Education Practices

• Review our research methods, analysis and conclusions:

  Outreach that Makes a Difference! Target Audiences for Water Education — A Research Meta-Analysis

• View references and abstracts for target audience research:

Target Audience Research References and Abstracts 51pp., 231 KB

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