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This study investigated the effectiveness of experience and nature-based learning activities in enhancing college students’ environmental attitudes. It employed a pre-test-post-test experimental research design. The participants were the class of fifty-three college students of a higher education institution in Region 2, Philippines. Seven learning activities were employed by the researcher namely pamphlets making, environmental-themed movie poster making, collage making, miniature plant exhibit, vegetable gardening, community clean-up service, recycled art crafts making, and tree planting drive. In like manner, the pre-attitude score and post-attitude scores in the standardize environmental attitude inventory test were compared and the significant differences were determined using paired sample t-test. Results of the study revealed that the different experience-based learning activities were generally rated interesting. Moreover, it was also revealed that the different learning activities significantly increased the environmental attitude of the students towards nature enjoyment, support for interventions and conservation policies environmental movement activism, conservation motivated by anthropocentric concern, confidence in science and technology, environmental threat, altering nature, personal conservation behavior, human dominance over nature, human utilization of nature, and ecocentric concern. This implies that allowing students to be exposed to the different environmental learning activities where a direct learning experience is involved significantly increased students' environmental construct.
This study investigated the effectiveness of experience and nature-based learning activities in enhancing college students’ environmental attitudes. It employed a pre-test-post-test experimental research design. The participants were the class of fifty-three college students of a higher education institution in Region 2, Philippines. Seven learning activities were employed by the researcher namely pamphlets making, environmental-themed movie poster making, collage making, miniature plant exhibit, vegetable gardening, community clean-up service, recycled art crafts making, and tree planting drive. In like manner, the pre-attitude score and post-attitude scores in the standardize environmental attitude inventory test were compared and the significant differences were determined using paired sample t-test. Results of the study revealed that the different experience-based learning activities were generally rated interesting. Moreover, it was also revealed that the different learning activities significantly increased the environmental attitude of the students towards nature enjoyment, support for interventions and conservation policies environmental movement activism, conservation motivated by anthropocentric concern, confidence in science and technology, environmental threat, altering nature, personal conservation behavior, human dominance over nature, human utilization of nature, and ecocentric concern. This implies that allowing students to be exposed to the different environmental learning activities where a direct learning experience is involved significantly increased students' environmental construct.
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J. Bio. & Env. Sci. 2018
Journal of Biodiversity and Environmental Sciences (JBES)
ISSN: 2220-6663 (Print) 2222-3045 (Online)
Vol. 12, No. 4, p. 127-138, 2018
http://www.innspub.net
RESEARCH PAPER
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The effectiveness of experience and nature-based learning
activities in enhancing students environmental attitude
Gilbert C. Magulod Jr.*
Campus Research and Development Office, Cagayan State University at Lasam, Lasam,
Cagayan, Philippines
Article published on April 30, 2018
Key words: Environmental attitude, College students, Experienced-based learning activities,
Environmental education.
Abstract
This study investigated the effectiveness of experience and nature-based learning activities in enhancing college
students’ environmental attitude. It employed pre-test-post-test experimental research design. The participants
were the class of fifty-three college students of a higher education institution in Region 2, Philippines. Seven
learning activities were employed by the researcher namely pamphlets making, environmental-themed movie
poster making, collage making, miniature plant exhibit, vegetable gardening, community clean-up service,
recycled art crafts making, and tree planting drive. In like manner, the pre-attitude score and post-attitude
scores in the standardize environmental attitude inventory test were compared and the significant differences
were determined using paired sample t-test. Results of the study revealed that the different experience-based
learning activities were generally rated interesting. Moreover, it was also revealed that the different learning
activities significantly increased the environmental attitude of the students towards nature enjoyment, support
for interventions and conservation policies environmental movement activism, conservation motivated by
anthropocentric concern, confidence in science and technology, environmental threat, altering nature, personal
conservation behavior, human dominance over nature, human utilization of nature, and ecocentric concern. This
implies that allowing students to be exposed to the different environmental learning activities where direct
learning experience is involved significantly increased students environmental construct.
* Corresponding Author: Gilbert C. Magulod Jr. gilbertmagulod_rdecsulasam46@yahoo.com
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