RESOURCES (Grants, Lists, Research, Journals)
Research and Evaluation Resources
Grants, Funding Research and Evaluation
- CORE Funding Opportunities
- The van der Smissen Research Endowment Fund
- Application: Thank you for your interest in this grant. The application is not available for 2012, as the grant will not be made for 2012. Please check back in early 2013 to see if it will be offered for 2013. Or you can sign up for our enewsletter on the site home page, in which this will be eventually announced if returning for 2013.
- Background and information on donating - Betty van der Smissen in Memorium
- Betty van der Smissen Eulogy
- A list of foundations and funding sources that hold potential for Experiential Programming and Evaluation
- Application: Thank you for your interest in this grant. The application is not available for 2012, as the grant will not be made for 2012. Please check back in early 2013 to see if it will be offered for 2013. Or you can sign up for our enewsletter on the site home page, in which this will be eventually announced if returning for 2013.
- ACCT research grant offered for research projects "of relevance to the challenge course industry"
- Some good advice as to how to get rigorous and expensive evaluation funded. Read more ...
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Funding Opportunities:
- Specific Opportunities for Research on Experiential Approaches to Health
- Current NIDA Funding Opportunities (Current Programs, RFAs, RFPs, and how to...)
Research in Experiential Education
- Evidenced-Based Kernels Bibliography Evidence by Dennis D. Embry & Anthony Biglan. The following are direct links to Dennis Embry’s writing, some of it is on program outcomes utilizing Kernels, some is on the development and itemization of Kernels and some is on brain function and understanding the brain and how to train it to do good work.
- The Good Behavior Game: A Best Practice Candidate as a Universal Behavioral Vaccine
- Nurturing the Genius of Genes: The New Frontier of Education
- Therapy and Understanding the Brain
- Initial Behavioral OUtcomes for the PeaceBuilders School-Based Violence Prevention Program
- Community-Based Prevention Using Simple, Low-Cost, Evidenced-Based Kernels and Behavioral Vaccines
- Evidenced Based Kernels: Fundamental Units of Behavioral Influence
- What does research say about Experiential Education (pdf)
Sponsored by Union Pacific Foundation
Summary of Findings: Learning through experience is the process of acquiring knowledge directly; the learner applies theories and concepts in a real world situation and learns from the outcome. Experiential education is essentially an educational philosophy first developed in the late nineteenth century. - Why Experiential Education is so Effective
from Sabre Corporate Development - In defense of adventure based education and active learning opportunities
by Jim Cain, Ph.D., Teamwork & Teamplay - Annotated Bibliographies covering Therapeutic Adventure, EE in schools K-12; Wilderness programming, and Experiential/Outdoor programming
- Experience-based Training & Development Research Studies (Dr. Simon Priest & colleagues, 1989-1997)
- Outdoor Education Research A - Z
- Outdoor Education Research and Evaluation Center
- Indiana University Adventure Research Cache
- Coalition for Education in the Outdoors Research Symposia Proceedings
- Adventure Therapy Research Literature Reviews
- Gillis & Speelman (2008) Challenge Course Research Bibliography: Studies with Control or Comparison Groups
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Journals focused on Experiential Education
- AEE’s Journal of Experiential Education
- Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning
- Australian Journal of Outdoor Education
- The Journal of Outdoor Recreation, Education, and Leadership
- Schole: A Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education
- Environmental Education Research
- Refereed Journals that publish Outdoor Education Philosophy, Theory, and Research
- Social Work with Groups
- Simulation and Gaming: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Theory, Practice and Research
- International Association of Facilitators
- A Journal for Facilitators
Connect with Researchers and Evaluators working in Experiential Programming
- The AEE Listserv is the listserv sponsored by AEE for its members and offers broad access to researchers and practitioners across many of the sub-disciplines of Experiential Education. To subscribe, send an email to aeelist-join@aeelist.org
- The Outdoor and Adventure Education Research Listserv based out of the U.K. is an international listserv focused exclusively on research oriented topics
- The Evidence Based Experiential Education Research Discussion List or “E-BEERS” is a U.S. based listserv focused primarily on the quantitative evaluation of experiential programming
- The Environmental Education Listserv is based out of the U.K. and is "For those interested in environmental education and education for sustainable living through research and scholarship"
- The Adventure Therapy Discussion List is based out of the U.S. and is not exclusively Research focused but is utilized by many researchers with an adventure therapy/therapeutic adventure focus
- The AEE Experience-Based Training and Development listserv ebtd@aeelist.org, ebtd-join@aeelist.org
- Other Outdoor & Experiential Education Discussion Lists
