Nuclear energy and Environmental Quality Approach to Data Integration

Subject Areas : soil pollution

Mojgan Akbari Armand ¹ ( MSc in Environmental Education, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran *(Corresponding Author). )
Farzam Babaie ² ( Assistant Professor, Department of Environment and Energy, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran )
Ali Mohammadi ³ ( استادیار گروه مدیریت محیط زیست، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، واحد علوم و تحقیقات، تهران، ایران *(مسئول مکاتبات). )
Naser Moharamnejhad ⁴ ( استادیار گروه مدیریت محیط زیست، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، واحد علوم و تحقیقات، تهران، ایران )

Received: 2016-06-01 Accepted : 2016-06-01 Published : 2020-12-21

Keywords: Eco school, Green school, Environmental knowledge, Environmental attitude,

Abstract :

The present research aimed to make a comparative study on environmental knowledge and attitude of the secondary school students in 2nd grade of biology course in Eco School (Green School) and Non-Eco school. Due to limited number of Eco high schools in Tehran, a pioneer non-governmental school for girls at Tehran Education Organization District 2 was chosen as an Eco school statistical population, and using Cochran sample size formula, a sample size of 50 individuals was estimated for it. After close investigations, proper Non-Eco schools were selected, and a sample size of 42 individuals was obtained for it by using Cochran formula. The descriptive methodology employed in this study was a survey type, relying on a questionnaire for assessment of environmental knowledge as well as a questionnaire for assessment of environmental attitude based on Likert Spectrum. Student's t-distribution and Mann-Whitney tests were also carried out to verify the hypotheses. Finally, the results revealed that the Eco school students’ environmental knowledge in the entire the 5 areas and their environmental attitude were meaningfully higher as compared to Non-Eco School students.