A Case Study of Junior High School Students’ Environmental Knowledge and Attitude

• Main Authors: Chung-Hwang Chen, 陳忠煌
• Other Authors: P. M. Li, Ph.D.
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/81151858596068170943

碩士 === 國立屏東科技大學 === 熱帶農業暨國際合作系所 === 97 === This study was aimed to explore junior high school students’ environmental knowledge and attitude as well as the effect of integrated environmental knowledge class. This study was a case study conducted at a junior high school in Taitung City. The researcher developed the pretest and posttest materials and semi-structured questionnaire. An expert review was conducted to establish the content validity. Then a pilot study was administered by distributing the pretest and posttest materials and semi-structured questionnaire to a total of 210 junior high school students in order to establish the reliability through SPSS statistical analyses. After that, the formal pretest, posttest, and survey questionnaire were administered to a class of 22 subject students along with the integrated teaching activity. The findings of the study include 1 only variable “grade” shows a significant difference on environmental knowledge among junior high school students; 2 the subject students show significant and positive progress on “environmental knowledge” after the environmental knowledge class was taught; 3 the subject students show significant progress on “environmental attitude” after teaching session; and 4 an integrated teaching method introduced to design teaching activity can enhance students’ learning motive and improve the teacher’s ability of creating their own teaching materials.