The relationship between the degrees of using ICT (with an emphasis on the Internet) with the environmental literacy of students

Subject Areas : Water and Environment

Mahdieh Rezaei ¹ , Seyyed Mohammad Shobeiri ²

1 - PhD student, Natural Resources and the Environment Department, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Associate professor, Environmental Education Department, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2014-05-10 Accepted : 2014-12-19 Published : 2015-02-20

Keywords: ICT, The internet, Environmental literacy, students,

Abstract :

The aim of the present research is to become familiar with awareness, attitude, and environmental behavior of the students at Payame Noor University, Markazi Province and to examine the degree of effect of ICT on these variables, with an emphasis on the Internet. The method used in the present research was an applied method in terms of the objective and the data were collected via the survey descriptive method. The population included 26701 students at Payame Noor University, Markazi Province, Iran, and 377 samples were randomly selected using Cochran’s sample size formula and then examined. The research instrument was a questionnaire composed of five sections, which was piloted in order to increase its reliability and validity. Based on the findings, the attitude and behaviors of the students were higher than their awareness and there was no significant difference between awareness, attitude, and environmental behaviors of male and female university students. Moreover, there was only a significant relationship between the environmental awareness and amount of using the Internet at 0.05 significance level with a relatively low correlation coefficient. No relationship was found between the university students ’environmental behaviors and attitude and the degree to which they used the Internet. There was also no relationship between visiting the environmental websites on the Internet and their environmental behaviors, attitude, and awareness

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