"Wild life conservation program" instrument effect to elementary student''s conservation action and varieties

• Main Author: 劉雅玲
• Other Authors: 王懋雯
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2004
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/31119638973103174257

碩士 === 臺北市立師範學院 === 環境教育研究所 === 92 === The purpose of this research was to examine the effects of a wild life conservation program on students’ wild life awareness, including their knowledge, beliefs, attitudes and actions. The wild life conservation program was developed by researcher with the goal of changing student understanding of wild life conservation within an environment education module. A nonequivalent experiment control group design was used with 6 intact classes from three elementary schools (n =206). The experimental group received wild life conservation program during the intervention period of 5 weeks, while the control group received no treatment during the same time. Formative evaluation, process evaluation and outcome data were collected with questionnaires to collect quantitative data. A closed-ended, pretest-posttest questionnaire was used to assess the outcome effects. The examination of the data determined the following findings. 1. Students in the experimental group’s awareness, knowledge, actions had increased after the wild life program instruction, but their belief and attitude didn’t change. 2. Without instruction control groups’ awareness had increase but not their knowledge, belief, attitude and action. 3. A comparison of the two groups’ pretest-posttest questionnaire score determined the instruction could effective increase students’ awareness, knowledge, belief, attitude and action. 4. A comparison of the experimental group’s pretest-posttest questionnaire score, students’ knowledge had increased in procrastinate teaching effects. 5. Changes in attitude were most important factor leading to students’ action in the research findings. According to these outcomes, the wild life program instructed positively increases students’ conservation action. Teachers can use the program in this research to increase their students’ conservation action.