Impact of School Gardens on United Arab Emirates Science Students’ Learning Environment Perceptions, Attitudes, Aspirations and Knowledge

This study examined whether using a school garden in secondary science classes improved student outcomes. The pre-post design involved administrating three surveys and a test to 268 students. The results indicated that, after using school gardens, students reported statistically significantly higher...

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Main Author: Baini, William
Format: Thesis
Published: Curtin University 2020
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/82185
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description This study examined whether using a school garden in secondary science classes improved student outcomes. The pre-post design involved administrating three surveys and a test to 268 students. The results indicated that, after using school gardens, students reported statistically significantly higher scores in terms of learning environment perceptions, aspirations towards gardening, and knowledge of healthy eating. The study provides evidence of the benefits of school gardens to different stakeholders: policy developers, school administrators and teachers.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-821852020-12-17T05:17:30Z Impact of School Gardens on United Arab Emirates Science Students’ Learning Environment Perceptions, Attitudes, Aspirations and Knowledge Baini, William This study examined whether using a school garden in secondary science classes improved student outcomes. The pre-post design involved administrating three surveys and a test to 268 students. The results indicated that, after using school gardens, students reported statistically significantly higher scores in terms of learning environment perceptions, aspirations towards gardening, and knowledge of healthy eating. The study provides evidence of the benefits of school gardens to different stakeholders: policy developers, school administrators and teachers. 2020 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/82185 Curtin University fulltext
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Impact of School Gardens on United Arab Emirates Science Students’ Learning Environment Perceptions, Attitudes, Aspirations and Knowledge
title Impact of School Gardens on United Arab Emirates Science Students’ Learning Environment Perceptions, Attitudes, Aspirations and Knowledge
title_full Impact of School Gardens on United Arab Emirates Science Students’ Learning Environment Perceptions, Attitudes, Aspirations and Knowledge
title_fullStr Impact of School Gardens on United Arab Emirates Science Students’ Learning Environment Perceptions, Attitudes, Aspirations and Knowledge
title_full_unstemmed Impact of School Gardens on United Arab Emirates Science Students’ Learning Environment Perceptions, Attitudes, Aspirations and Knowledge
title_short Impact of School Gardens on United Arab Emirates Science Students’ Learning Environment Perceptions, Attitudes, Aspirations and Knowledge
title_sort impact of school gardens on united arab emirates science students’ learning environment perceptions, attitudes, aspirations and knowledge
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/82185