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Liu, Shu-Chiu; Lin, Huann-shyang; Tsai, Chun-Yen – Journal of Environmental Education, 2020
The purpose of this study is to investigate students' mental models of the marine environment and to further examine how these models are related to their perceptions of marine problems. One hundred twenty-eight ninth grade students from a large harbor city in southern Taiwan completed a survey including a drawing activity and a set of two-tier…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Water Pollution, Marine Biology, Foreign Countries
DeWaters, Jan; Qaqish, Basil; Graham, Mary; Powers, Susan – Journal of Environmental Education, 2013
A measurement scale has been developed to assess secondary students' energy literacy--a citizenship understanding of energy that includes cognitive as well as affective and behavioral items. Instrument development procedures followed psychometric principles from educational and social psychology research. Initial exploration of the measure yielded…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Item Analysis, Environmental Education, Affective Behavior
Gotschi, Elisabeth; Vogel, Stefan; Lindenthal, Thomas; Larcher, Manuela – Journal of Environmental Education, 2010
In 2005 a survey was used to investigate social norms and attitudes of Viennese high school students (14-20 years, n = 340) toward organic products. Young people, who already participate in household decisions and consume organic products, have not yet been recognized sufficiently in research. The Theory of Reasoned Action and discriminant…
Descriptors: Discriminant Analysis, High School Students, Surveys, Foreign Countries
DiEnno, Cara Marie; Hilton, Sunita C. – Journal of Environmental Education, 2005
The authors applied constructivist learning theory to environmental education to explore knowledge gains, student attitudes, and engagement among high school students exposed to a week-long unit on nonnative plant species. The authors compared constructivist and traditional teaching methods. Each class was given a pretest and a posttest. The…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Attitudes, Environmental Education, Plants (Botany)
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Covitt, Beth A.; Gomez-Schmidt, Christina; Zint, Michaela T. – Journal of Environmental Education, 2005
Focus on Risk is an instructional material created to enhance high school students' environmental risk literacy. An evaluation involving 532 Focus on Risk students and 305 comparison students showed modest improvements in students' demonstrated risk knowledge and stronger improvements in self-assessed risk knowledge. Students' sense of…
Descriptors: Student Interests, Program Descriptions, High School Students, Learning Experience