國中學生環境教育知識與環境態度的關聯性與差異性之分析

Association and Differences Analysis of Junior High School Students’ Environmental Education Knowledge and Environmental Attitude

雖然人類整體生活物質條件日益富裕，但環境品質卻逐漸低落，即將成為國家未來公民的青少年們對於這些日益嚴重的環境議題之認知情況與環境態度值得探究。本研究以中部地區702位國中學生為研究對象，探討其環境教育知識與環境態度之關係，與性別、年級等不同背景變項的學生在其知識與態度上之差異性。研究發現國中學生在環境教育的知識現況屬中上程度，其中以「一般環境知識」層面的了解程度較高；其環境態度多屬積極正向，又以對「生態保育態度」的態度最為正向；不同性別的國中學生在整體環境教育知識層面上未達顯著差異，但在環境態度層面達顯著差異；不同年級國中學生在環境教育知識與環境態度的分層面達顯著差異；且學生的環境教育知識與環境態度有顯著正相關，分層面中以環境行動策略知識與環境技能態度之相關最高。根據研究結果提出建議，提供教育主管機關、學校教育人員及未來研究者進一步之參考。

Although the material life of human becomes more affluent， the quality of environment gradually becomes lower. It is worth exploring for the adolescents， as a future citizen of this country， to survey their environmental education knowledge and environmental attitudes. The study aimed to examine the relationship and differences between the environmental education knowledge and environmental attitude of 702 junior high school students in central Taiwan. Questionnaire survey has been adopted as the research method and descriptive statistics， t-test， one-way ANOVA and Pearson’s product-moment correlation are applied to analyze the data. The findings of the study are: first， the environmental education knowledge of students is in moderate to high levels. Second， the environmental attitudes of students are relatively positive. Third， with respect to gender， there are no significant differences in students’ environmental education knowledge but significant differences in students’ environmental attitudes. Fourth， significant differences are found on students’ environmental education knowledge and environmental attitudes with respect to age. Final， there is a significant and positive correlation between environmental education knowledge and environmental attitudes. Based on the findings of the study， the implications of these findings were discussed and suggestions were provided for further research.