TABLE 3
Asynchronous Learner Responses to Question 8 of the Long-Term Follow-Up Survey for the Environmental Health and Land Reuse Training
Summary Category
Specific Responses • All of it was. • Everything was useful. • Entire program was useful. • All aspects are very useful. • Course overall was good.
Responses that indicated all or every part of the training was useful ( n = 7)
• I still have saved and use all the reference materials given. I loved this program and recommend it to everyone! • Good subject matter knowledge skills to advance vital land reuse concepts, which I found practical as a trained environmental health specialist (REHS), industrial hygienist, and occupational health specialist and a current USPHS EHO for the various stakeholder communities with whom I interact. Thank you!
Responses that indicated the training was useful in a particular area ( n = 8)
• Public communication (community engagement; 2 responses) • Evaluating environmental and health risks • Applicability to most environmental health scenarios
• Brownfield grant information for redevelopment was highly informative • Awareness of how to approach and how to connect with resources • I work in the food program but am interested in environmental issues • I found the program to be very interesting and the information provided has been helpful in [my] daily routine. It has improved my abilities to discuss community engagement within my community.
Responses that indicated the training was complete and comprehensive ( n = 2) Responses that indicated the training material was not really useful or was not applicable ( n = 4)
• Completeness and convenience • Complete and comprehensive
• Not really. All the materials interrelate, in my opinion. • N/A (3 responses)
Response that was negative ( n = 1)
• I do not remember taking this training at all. I am only filling this out so that I can stop receiving email requests to take the survey. Please understand that I cannot help you with this unless I took the training again. For which my supervisor said no!
Note. Question 8 asked: “Is there one aspect of the certificate program materials that was most useful to you? If so, please specify here. ” N/A = not applicable; REHS = Registered Environmental Health Specialist; USPHS EHO = U.S. Public Health Service environmental health officer.
gaps in education related to environmental health and land reuse. As the primary EHLR Classroom Training course developers, ATSDR and NEHA were most interested in assessing the eect of the training up to 12 months post-training. We wanted to know if participants would remember or use the training in the long term. We were pleased to learn that par- ticipants felt that the training was eective and useful over the long term. For example, responses to Questions 1 and 2 about gen- eral training usefulness (Table 2) indicated that participants found the training useful or very useful. They reported that they felt the training built skills and capacity, includ- ing preparing for public meetings. The clustering of responses to similar prompts from the initial and long-term knowledge assessments indicated that the training was most useful in three areas, both
immediately after training and within 12 months post-training: 1.Providing new knowledge. 2.Increasing confidence to engage in each specific module’s environmental health aspect related to land reuse (long-term knowledge assessments) or in community engagement related to land reuse (initial knowledge assessments). 3. Motivating participants to learn more about land reuse and ways to be engaged. The long-term survey results indicated that the EHLR training was useful up to 12 months post-training. Survey Question 8 (Table 3) asked, “Is there one aspect of the certificate program materials that is most use- ful to you?” Four respondents indicated that “all,” “everything,” or the “entire program” was useful. Some of the longer, open-ended comments provided more detail about how participants found the course content was
useful in the long term. For example, respon- dents stated: “I still have saved and use all the ref- erence materials given. I loved this pro- gram and recommend it to everyone!” “Good subject matter knowledge skills to advance vital land reuse concepts, which I found practical as a trained environmental health specialist (REHS), industrial hygienist, and occupational health specialist … for the various stake- holder communities with whom I inter- act. Thank you!” “I found the program to be very inter- esting, and the information provided has been helpful in [my] daily routine. It has improved my abilities to discuss commu- nity engagement within my community.” We were pleased to see that participants accessed and used the reference materials. They also found the training useful for their
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