Turkish Pre-Service Primary School Teachers' Environmental Attitudes: Effects of Gender and Grade Level

Autor/inn/en	Ozsoy, Sibel; Ozsoy, Gokhan; Kuruyer, Hayriye Gul
Titel	Turkish Pre-Service Primary School Teachers' Environmental Attitudes: Effects of Gender and Grade Level
Quelle	In: Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, 12 (2011) 2, Artikel 5 (21 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1609-4913
Schlagwörter	Schools of Education; Student Attitudes; Females; Foreign Countries; Preservice Teachers; Environment; Attitude Change; Gender Differences; Instructional Program Divisions; Elementary School Teachers; Teacher Education; Effect Size; Statistical Analysis; Environmental Education; Turkey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Erziehungswissenschaftliche Fakultät; Schülerverhalten; Weibliches Geschlecht; Ausland; Umwelt; Attitudinal change; Einstellungsänderung; Geschlechterkonflikt; Elementary school; Teacher; Teachers; Grundschule; Volksschule; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Lehrerausbildung; Lehrerbildung; Statistische Analyse; Umweltbildung; Umwelterziehung; Umweltpädagogik; Türkei
Abstract	The purpose of this study was to explore Turkish pre-service primary school teachers' attitudes towards environment. Besides, it aimed to investigate how pre-service primary school teachers' environmental attitudes change with grade level and gender. A total of 2067 pre-service teachers attending to primary school education departments of nine different universities in Turkey participated in the study. The results of the study showed that the pre-service primary school teachers have a high level of environmental attitudes (M = 152.62, SD = 13.18). The results also revealed that there is a statistically significant mean difference (t = 2.03, p = 0.04) between males and females in favor of females with a large effect size (eta[superscript 2]= 0.99). The results also showed that there are no significant differences (F(3,2063) = 1.676, p = 0.170) between pre-service teachers enrolling to different grades with respect to their environmental attitudes. (Contains 4 tables.) (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10