2015_Environmental Awareness and Attitude Amongst Secondary School Students in Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia
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| spelling | 15467 https://intelek.unisza.edu.my/intelek/pages/view.php?ref=15467 https://intelek.unisza.edu.my/intelek/pages/search.php?search=!collection3 General Document Malaysia Library Staff (Top Management) Library Staff (Management) Library Staff (Support) Terengganu Faculty of Medicine English application/pdf 1.5 102 Server storage Scanned document Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin UniSZA Private Access Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin SAMBox 2.3.4; modified using iTextSharp™ 5.5.10 ©2000-2016 iText Group NV (AGPL-version) ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS AND ATTITUDE AMONGST SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN KUALA TERENGGANU, MALAYSIA (MASTER_2015).pdf 2018-08-13 2015_Environmental Awareness and Attitude Amongst Secondary School Students in Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia Copyright©PWB2025 Ali Auwalu Rabiu Maintaining of the environmental awareness program that was established by the Ministry of Education has received less attention in society, especially those from secondary school. Lack of awareness towards environment will lead to destruction of the earth and living beings. This thesis aims to identify the level of environmental awareness and attitude of students towards environment and environmental education, to find the significant differences in the environmental awareness level of students using different demographic variables and to find the relationship between environmental awareness and environmental attitude of students in Kuala Terengganu. The survey was conducted in 2014 academic year on 600 respondents (n=600) of form two and form four students were selected randomly from the urban, sub urban and rural areas in Kuala Terengganu. Dependents variables were the environmental awareness test, attitude of students towards environment and environmental education. Independent variables on the demographic factors were gender, age, school location, race, parents’ educational qualification and parents’ occupation. The research instrument was the questionnaire, using Likert scale prepared by the researcher. Methods of analyzing data were descriptive, t-test, Pearson correlation and ANOVA using SPSS version 16. Research outcomes showed that secondary school students have low level of environmental awareness (M=0.40) representing 40% of the total awareness. T-test and ANOVA analyses for gender, parents’ educational qualification and occupation showed an insignificant differences on the significant level of 95% (p<0.05). Differences in age, school location, and race of students revealed significant differences in the environmental awareness. It indicated that student aged 15-17years have “higher” environmental awareness (M=0.4245, ±0.1303) than students aged 12-13years (M=0.3150, ±0.1713). Indian students have “higher” environmental awareness (M=0.4535, ±0.1508) than Malay and Chinese students (M=0.3960, ±0.1429 and M=0.3667, ±0.1366) respectively. The Pearson correlation showed that there was positive but weak relationship between the environmental awareness and attitude of students towards environment.Therefore, an environmental awareness program should be expanded among secondary schools to be applicabledwithin student life for the long term period of time. Environmental awareness—Research Environmental Awareness Attitudes Towards the Environment Environmental Education Dissertations, Academic Sila masukkan subject wajib Dissertations, Academic. Terima kasih... Thesis |
| spellingShingle | 2015_Environmental Awareness and Attitude Amongst Secondary School Students in Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia |
| state | Terengganu |
| subject | Environmental awareness—Research Dissertations, Academic |
| summary | Maintaining of the environmental awareness program that was established by the Ministry of Education has received less attention in society, especially those from secondary school. Lack of awareness towards environment will lead to destruction of the earth and living beings. This thesis aims to identify the level of environmental awareness and attitude of students towards environment and environmental education, to find the significant differences in the environmental awareness level of students using different demographic variables and to find the relationship between environmental awareness and environmental attitude of students in Kuala Terengganu. The survey was conducted in 2014 academic year on 600 respondents (n=600) of form two and form four students were selected randomly from the urban, sub urban and rural areas in Kuala Terengganu. Dependents variables were the environmental awareness test, attitude of students towards environment and environmental education. Independent variables on the demographic factors were gender, age, school location, race, parents’ educational qualification and parents’ occupation. The research instrument was the questionnaire, using Likert scale prepared by the researcher. Methods of analyzing data were descriptive, t-test, Pearson correlation and ANOVA using SPSS version 16. Research outcomes showed that secondary school students have low level of environmental awareness (M=0.40) representing 40% of the total awareness. T-test and ANOVA analyses for gender, parents’ educational qualification and occupation showed an insignificant differences on the significant level of 95% (p<0.05). Differences in age, school location, and race of students revealed significant differences in the environmental awareness. It indicated that student aged 15-17years have “higher” environmental awareness (M=0.4245, ±0.1303) than students aged 12-13years (M=0.3150, ±0.1713). Indian students have “higher” environmental awareness (M=0.4535, ±0.1508) than Malay and Chinese students (M=0.3960, ±0.1429 and M=0.3667, ±0.1366) respectively. The Pearson correlation showed that there was positive but weak relationship between the environmental awareness and attitude of students towards environment.Therefore, an environmental awareness program should be expanded among secondary schools to be applicabledwithin student life for the long term period of time. |
| title | 2015_Environmental Awareness and Attitude Amongst Secondary School Students in Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia |
| title_full | 2015_Environmental Awareness and Attitude Amongst Secondary School Students in Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia |
| title_fullStr | 2015_Environmental Awareness and Attitude Amongst Secondary School Students in Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia |
| title_full_unstemmed | 2015_Environmental Awareness and Attitude Amongst Secondary School Students in Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia |
| title_short | 2015_Environmental Awareness and Attitude Amongst Secondary School Students in Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia |
| title_sort | 2015_environmental awareness and attitude amongst secondary school students in kuala terengganu, malaysia |