The Effects of the Outdoor Education Program,“Forest Backpacker”on Elementary School Higher Grades'' Environmental Education at Neishuangxi Nature Center

• Main Authors: Yi-ming Lai, 賴羿鳴
• Other Authors: Yen-Hsueh Tseng
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/57473720151409041686

碩士 === 國立中興大學 === 森林學系所 === 103 === “Environmental education” is a process in which education approaches are adopted to improve people’s knowledge, attitude or behavior about environment protection, for “sustainable development”. This aim of study is to evaluate the outdoor education program, “Forest Backpacker” of Neishuangxi Nature Center, to understand the circumstance in the center’s curricula and the students’ learning performance. The pre- and post-test questionnaires were used to evaluate the learning performance and expectations of high-grade students of elementary school. The design of questionnaires considered teaching objectives, and contents referring relevant literature, through pre-test, difficulty level, assessment, reliability, and analysis of paired-samples t-test, then analyzed student’s background with learning achievement by one-way ANOVA test. The results revealed that after the program most students made significant progress in scores compared to their pretest results in terms of knowledge, attitude and behavior (all p values＜0.05). Students who are more interested in reading and watching TV program about nature, did better in behavior intention ( p values＜0.05). Besides some students learnt new experience about nature which even made them intend to protect it. Teachers’ interviews showed positive feedback about the program, and recognition of the program teachers’ enthusiasm and rich knowledge. Meanwhile they also provided some suggestions concerning contact condition in advance, program contents and teaching methods.