Comparative Study of Environmental Literacy Between Teachers and Students at Coastal Area

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.200318.045How to use a DOI?

Keywords

environmental literacy, teachers and students, high school

Abstract

The damage of environment right now being the concern of many institutions including the schools. The schools that provide good learning environments will give a great contribution in solving environmental issues by creating pro-environmental generations. Thus, the schools play important role in giving a long term solution to the environmental issues. This research was aimed to measure the level of environmental literacy comprehension in Teachers and students in senior high schools in coastal area. This research used quantitative approach to examine the level of the environmental literacy in students and teachers. The t test analysis was used to show the differences between students and teachers in environmental literacy comprehension. In addition, correlation and regression test were used to show the relation between teacher’s environmental literacy comprehensions with the student’s environmental literacy comprehensions. This research involved 40 students and 41 teachers from high schools in coastal area. The score of environmental literacy was taken using Middle schools environmental literacy surveys (MSELS) questionnaires. The result shows significant value as 0.643 (p> 0.05) that there are no differences between teachers and students comprehension in environmental literacy. In addition, correlation-regression analysis also shows R= 0.201 with sig. value as 0.209 (p> 0.05). This result indicates that there are no correlations between teacher’s environmental literacy comprehensions and student’s environmental literacy comprehensions.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Fenny Roshayanti
AU  - Azizul Ghofar Candra Wicaksono
AU  - Ipah Budi Minarti
AU  - Nurkholis
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/03/24
TI  - Comparative Study of Environmental Literacy Between Teachers and Students at Coastal Area
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Education and Social Science Research (ICESRE 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 232
EP  - 236
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200318.045
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200318.045
ID  - Roshayanti2020
ER  -