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NEH
Grant
Evaluation
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Participants
and Contrast
Group
Participants
of the NEH
focus group
included
seventeen
6-12th
grade
educators
from seven
different
schools in
two rural
counties in
Northwestern
Washington.
Educators’
content
areas
included
English
(world and
American
literature
and
composition),
social
studies
(history,
economics,
geography)
foreign
language
(Spanish and
French), and
English/social
studies
block.
At
the time of
the
commencement
of the
workshops,
none of the
participants
taught a
semester-long
class
dedicated
exclusively
to Holocaust
history or
Holocaust
literature.
Nine
taught
lessons that
included the
Holocaust
within
established
units. The
other eight
had not yet
taught the
topic and
were
interested
in becoming
knowledgeable
enough to do
so.
For the
purpose of
evaluation,
three of the
seventeen
participants
did not meet
the minimum
requirement
of 36 hours
and
therefore
data from
those
participants
is not
included in
this
evaluation
(n1=14).
Of
these,
eleven were
female and
three were
male.
A
contrast
group
comprised of
eleven
educators
teaching the
same content
specific
courses as
the NEH
focus group
participants
was created
for the
purpose of
evaluation
(n2=11).
Members
of the
contrast
group
demonstrated
interest in
participation
in the
occurrence
of future
workshops on
Holocaust/
genocide
studies.
The
members of
the contrast
group were
drawn from
the same
pool of
educational
institutions
as the NEH
educators
(treatment
group).
Seven
members of
the contrast
group were
female and
four were
male.
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