AFFECTIVE DIMENSIONS OF ENVIRONMENTAL LITERACY OF SLOVAK PUPILS AT ISCED LEVEL 2

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.21125/inted.2020" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.21125/inted.2020</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.21125/inted.2020" target="_blank" >10.21125/inted.2020</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

AFFECTIVE DIMENSIONS OF ENVIRONMENTAL LITERACY OF SLOVAK PUPILS AT ISCED LEVEL 2

Original language description

Environmental literacy is currently perceived as a concept consisting of three dimensions (cognitive, affective and conative). The affective dimension is represented by declared environmental attitudes and sensitivity. A quantitative questionnaire was used at the environmental literacy testing of Slovak pupils at ISCED level 2 (International Standard Classification of Education) to measure their attitudes and sensitivity. The reliability of the corresponding instrument subscales (attitudes and sensitivity) and strength of the relationship of the demographic variables (gender, age, grade and leisure activities) towards the affective dimension of environmental literacy were analysed. Studied sample consisted of ISCED 2 pupils from 13 Slovak schools. Data were collected in spring 2019. Included were both school with and without environmental profiling. The total number of respondents was 958 (457 girls and 501 boys). Standard statistical methods were used for data analysis, e.g. Two Sample t-test, ANOVA, Spearman correlations. The reliability of the instrument&apos;s sub-scales (attitudes and sensitivity) was determined by the Cronbach α coefficient, which reached α = 0.81 for attitudes and α = 0.80 for sensitivity. A statistically significant relationship to the affective dimension of environmental literacy was identified for all demographic variables. In the case of gender, girls reached higher values. Variables age and grade showed negative relationship towards the affective dimension. Their values decreased with increasing age, respectively grade. Among leisure activities, there was a significant positive connection, especially between the affective dimension and outdoor activities, while a negative relationship was recorded in ICT. Multiple regression analyses revealed that leisure activities predicted variability in variable sensitivity by 21%, and, in combination with gender, variability in variable attitude by 19%. Leisure activities as well as gender aspect and age can be considered as essential determinants affective dimension of the environmental literacy of ISCED 2 pupils in Slovakia.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

14TH INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGY, EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE (INTED2020)

ISBN

978-84-09-17939-8

ISSN

2340-1079

e-ISSN

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Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

0155-0162

Publisher name

IATED Academy iated.org

Place of publication

Valencia (Spain)

Event location

Valencia (Spain)

Event date

Mar 2, 2020

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

000558088800026