ALCOHOL Alcohol education and its evaluation — some key

THIS paper identifies some of the key issues in the development and evaluation of an alcohol education programme. The major problems inherent in this kind of research are discussed, and some consider-ation is given as to how these might be resolved. There follows a detailed description of a continuing study, designed to put some of these ideas into prac-tice. Its principal aim is to evaluate the effectiveness of an alcohol education package for 12 to 13-year-old children in school. ALCOHOL education, as all health education, must in its broadest sense be viewed a ~ a political issue Few health educators would disagree that a basic pre-requisite of any health education programme is a set of clearly defined objectives, and of clearly defined pro