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Evaluate water safety education strategies by identifying effective teaching strategies, assessing teen training, comparing family-based and individual learning, and determining accessible settings for water competency lessons.

Evaluate the effectiveness of current water safety education strategies.

  • Determine what are the most effective and efficient pedagogical strategies to help children acquire water competency knowledge and skills.
  • Evaluate in-water and out-of-water training programs focused on reaching teens and determine best practices for knowledge acquisition and retention.
  • Evaluate and compare skill and knowledge acquisition and retention, between water competency training that involves the family unit versus individuals.
  • Identify the best (most efficient and most accessible) settings for delivery of water competency lessons for both land-based and in-water education.

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