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A Study of the Cognition and Learning Motivation of Junior High School towards Biodiversity

The biodiversity is the material base of human survival; however, the humanity is also destroying it with the astonishing speed. Therefore, examination of current students¡¦ cognition degree towards the biodiversity practically should be one of the foundation work before thoroughly promoting ecology preservation. This study aims first to find out the relationships of the middle-school students¡¦ understanding about the preservation of the biodiversity, their learning motivation, present situations as well as their background. In this study, the participatory objects are 1,312 junior high students from Taiwan. The data collected from them was analyzed by using the descriptive statistics, t-test, two-way ANOVA, one-way ANOVA, and Pearson¡¦s product-moment correlation. The results indicated that the average responding rate of middle-school students¡¦ knowledge towards the preservation of the biodiversity is 72.70%, and the percentage of their biodiversity learning motivation is 65.42, belonging to the moderate motive degree. The differences in sex, region of residence, year grade in school, social status of their mothers, inhabitant conditions have much to do with students¡¦ cognitions of the biodiversity preservation. And the region of residence, year grade in school, social status of their mothers, inhabitant conditions have much to do with students¡¦ learning motivation of the biodiversity. In addition, it reveals a remarkably positive correlation between students cognition of the biodiversity preservation and their learning motivation. Based on the above research discoveries, some recommendations for further research , the educate units and the teaching staff were suggested.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0608109-171508
Date08 June 2009
CreatorsWang, Ghiu-huang
ContributorsIris-Chu Huang, ,David Chao, ,Chen-Fu Shaw
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0608109-171508
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