eBug

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e-Bug Pack Evaluation
Junior Schools
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Evaluation Process

• Evaluation carried out in 3 countries

• Control and Intervention Schools
• Junior and Senior Schools
• Minimum of 151 students in each group

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Regions Evaluated
England
Czech Republic
France
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Primary Outcome

• Knowledge Change
• Baseline knowledge
• Knowledge change
• Knowledge retention
• Variables
• Teacher knowledge of microbiology
• Class size
• Region
• Learning disability register

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Secondary Outcome

• Satisfaction
• Teacher Questionnaires
• Student Questionnaires
• Focus groups

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Knowledge Change Results

• Variable did not have any effect on knowledge
  change at any of the time points
• Exception Region

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Introduction to Microbes

• An Introduction
• Make microbes out of paper cut outs and Arts
  Crafts materials
• Good Microbes
• Yogurt Making Activity
• Bad Microbes
• Interactive Discussion

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Introduction to Microbes
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Introduction to Microbes
Significant improvement in knowledge across all
regions No loss in student knowledge over time
except Gloucester
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Spread of Infection

• Hand Hygiene
• Hand washing activity using UV gel/powder to
  represent microbes
• Respiratory Hygiene
• Sneezing Runway
• Food Hygiene
• Chicken salad activity using UV gel/powder to
  represent microbes on raw chicken

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Spread of Infection
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Spread of Infection
Significant improvement in knowledge across all
regions No loss in student knowledge over time
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Treatment / Prevention of Infection

• Vaccinations
• Reading comprehension
• The story of Edward Jenner
• Antibiotic Use and Medicines
• Comic Strip and classroom discussion

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Treatment / Prevention of Infection
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Treatment / Prevention of Infection
Significant improvement in knowledge across all
regions No loss in student knowledge over time
except Gloucester
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Knowledge Change Summary

• Significant Improvement in all pack teaching
  areas over time
• No reduction in student knowledge after a 6 week
  period
• Control schools performed equally as well

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Student Satisfaction
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Student Satisfaction

• Likes
• Interesting Facts
• Interactive, fun activities
• Team work
• Seeing and naming the microbes
• Characters
• Dislikes
• Waiting too long to take your turn
• Some activities too difficult
• When the teacher did the work
• Finishing the activity!

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Teacher Satisfaction

• Junior Schools
• 100 satisfaction in England and Czech Republic
• 3/11 teachers in France said they would NOT use
  e-Bug in the future

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Teacher Satisfaction

• Teacher Likes
• Interactive
• Engaged students
• Teacher dislikes
• Too much photocopying
• Some activities too advanced
• Yogurt activity not suitable for practical
  reasons
• Pages didnt photocopy well
• Not enough multimedia support

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General Changes

• Photocopying issues
• Merged student handouts
• Created handouts in MS PowerPoint
• Changed the colour of the resource

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General Changes

• Multimedia Support
• Films of activities
• Added alternative activities to website
• Included more posters etc on the website
• Pack available in MS Word and PDF

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General Changes

• Other
• Provide more alternative materials
• Include more prompts and suggestions for teachers
• Provide more animations
• Introduce an Immunity Section

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Specific Sectional Changes

• Introduction
• Changed arts and craft materials to playdough
• Good and bad
• Changed titles to USEFUL and HARMFUL microbes
• Created a new Yeast Races activity
• Food Hygiene
• Food Hygiene Condensed main activity
• Vaccinations
• Vaccinations Added a role play element