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The problem
Intervention: Educational care farm programs combining outdoor learning with farm-based education
Who it was tested with: Children who have dropped out of school in the Netherlands.
Experience from people who deliver programmes: stories, case studies and lessons learned. Valuable for understanding how and why, and for spotting what to test next, but not a measure of effect.
"Using the generic Context-Intervention-Mechanisms-Outcome Model as an overarching deductive frame, this study inductively examines how care-educational programs facilitate the positive development of children who have dropped out of school. Focusing on nine educational care farms, we conducted observations and interviews with children, parents, teachers, and farmers." The study identifies how mechanisms operate within the farm context but relies on qualitative data without comparison groups to establish effectiveness.
The study is qualitative with no control group and does not measure school return rates or provide quantitative outcome data. The findings are based on perceptions from interviews rather than objective measures of academic or behavioral change.
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