Exploring Environmental Literacy through Demographic Variables

Date

2013-01-01

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Öztürk, Gökhan
Yılmaz Tüzün, Özgül
Teksöz, Gaye

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This study aims to investigate the effect of selected demographic variables on pre-service teachers’ environmental literacy. Although there are several demographic variables to have some degree of relationship with components of environmental literacy, gender, academic major, and grade level are chosen to investigate further in the Turkish context because of their prevalent usage in earlier studies. The sample of the study is comprised of 560 pre-service teachers enrolled in different academic majors. Environmental Literacy Test (ELT) was used as an instrument to assess environmental literacy and MANOVA was performed to investigate differences of PTs’ environmental literacy in terms demographic variables. Findings of the study indicated that gender, year of enrollment, and academic major had significant effect on components of environmental literacy.

Subject Keywords

Year of enrollment, Academic major, Gender, Pre-service teachers, Environmental literacy

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/80656
http://ilkogretim-online.org.tr/index.php/io/article/view/1359

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Elementary Education Online

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Department of Mathematics and Science Education, Article

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G. Öztürk, Ö. Yılmaz Tüzün, and G. Teksöz, “Exploring Environmental Literacy through Demographic Variables,” Elementary Education Online, pp. 926–937, 2013, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/80656.