An evaluation of two school-based alcohol education programs.

This report summarizes the experimental evaluations of two school-based alcohol education programs. Both univariate and multivariate data analyses are reported. It was found that alcohol education programs given to students in grades 7 through 10 improved their knowledge about alcohol, had mixed effects on their attitudes about alcohol, produced decreases in their alcohol use, and produced predictions of less future alcohol use. It was concluded that more attention needs to be paid to the psychosocial dynamics of educational programs--the role played by cognition, attitudes, social norms, etc., and that especially important is the tailoring of program objectives and content to subgroup characteristics based on current alcohol use, motivation and relevant demographic characteristics.