A Study on Effectiveness of Environmental Awareness of Secondary Students
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This paper is based on the result of effectiveness of environmental awareness in secondary students. It was a two-staged process namely Phase-I and Phase-II. In Phase-I, the researcher taught Geography to both the groups obtained in a conventional way and evaluated their initial environmental awareness in the form of an achievement test, or the Pre-Test. In Phase-II, the researcher maintained the conventional method with the Control group and applied the teaching Geographical phenomenon based on environmental education with the Experimental group. The post achievement test was the terminal level of Environmental Awareness.
The researcher used an experimental method; a sample of 649 government aided secondary school students in Purba Medinipur District in West Bengal was taken. Ten schools were used to gather the data. A self-administered survey was developed whose sixteen items were based on the areas of application. This questionnaire tried to generate awareness of the environment based on two of the chapters in the Geography class IX curriculum. The data was analysed through the use of a t-test by the researcher.
The analysis showed no significant difference between the Pre-Test of environmental awareness of the Control and the Experimental groups. As well, the difference in the Pre-Test and Post-Test of the Control group was not significant in Environmental awareness. Nevertheless, the Experimental group also exhibited a great enhancement in terms of environmental awareness between the Pre-Test to Past Test after listening to Geography.
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