This is a positive finding in the current study, and somewhat unexpected given that males in our formative study reported confusion around nutritional messages [ 20].
This paper reports, therefore, the findings of the formative study.
The study addressed two questions: 1) How does lab report content (quality and thoroughness) compare between treatments? 2) How does content included by students in the formative lab reports transfer to learning as assessed with the summative quiz?
Of particular importance within these plans is the implementation of instruments at different stages of the students' formative processes, report results available online to students and tutors, specialized study skills clubs from the predominant learning styles, time management resources and strategies, and the adaptation of resources to different formats for different devices, among others.
Hence, we expected the transfer from the formative lab report to be greater for the learning cycle than for the expository style.
The findings of the formative research reported here are expected to contribute to refining operational issues directly related to the implementation of the Community Capacity Development (CCD) strategy in all UNICEF's programme areas.
The two-year cycle of formative research reported here was in itself viewed as protracted by stakeholders eager for feedback, necessitating the need for interim cycles of 'key issues' being fed back, based, due to the time constraints, on preliminary analysis.
In this paper we report a formative, exploratory study of the current and potential communications practices of public health stakeholders and the public health workforce with respect to bi-directional communications and the incorporation of SMS as public health messaging strategies.
Therefore, a formative evaluation that reports details of the interactions among executive characteristics (leadership style, gender, position in organization) and the units (size, recent safety issues, work routines) would be informative, as would a unit level analysis of safety climate scores.
