Kaohsiung's corridor of wetlands is the first of its kind in Taiwan. Therefore, the wetland-related knowledge, attitude, and behavior of the junior high school students are worth exploring and realizing. The main purpose of this study is to explore the student¡¦s background variables (sexual, grade, family socioeconomic status, experience of wetlands, school location) to find out the difference on students¡¦ knowledge, attitude, behavior, and realize the correlation among the ecological conservation of wetlands. The instrument used in this study is the self-compiled questionnaire titled the Kaohsiung junior high school students¡¦ wetland ecological conservation knowledge, attitude, and behavior. The subjects are 891 junior high school students in Kaohsiung city. The data collected are analyzed by descriptive statistics, t tests, single-factor variations data analysis, Pearson product-moment correlation, and etc. The main findings are as follows:
1. The major source of ecological wetland conservation of junior high school students were from the TV & internet, secondly from teachers, parents, and the least was from broadcasting.
2. The students¡¦ knowledge of ecological conservation of wetlands described as good, attitude towards consent and positive, but behavior toward negative.
3. In students¡¦ knowledge of wetland ecological conservation, different grade, family socioeconomic status, and school location exhibited significant differences. However, different sex, and experience of wetlands revealed no significant differences.
4. In students¡¦ attitude of wetland ecological conservation, the experience of wetlands showed significant differences. No significant differences were observed in different sex, grade, family socioeconomic status, and school location.
5. In behavior of wetland ecological conservation, significantly differences were found in different grade, experience of wetlands, and school location. Different sex and family socioeconomic status revealed no significant differences.
6. There was significantly positive correlation between the knowledge and attitude towards wetland ecological conservation of junior high school students; and the significant positive correlation was also found between the attitude and behavior of wetland ecological conservation. There was no significant correlation between the knowledge and behavior towards wetland ecological conservation of junior high school students.
Based on the results, several suggestions may be offered for the junior high school in Kaohsiung city, related-educational associations, and future research.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0217111-133935 |
| Date | 17 February 2011 |
| Creators | Su, Yu-hung |
| Contributors | Tai-chu Huang, David Chao, Shein, P |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0217111-133935 |
| Rights | withheld, Copyright information available at source archive |
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