Knowledge, understanding Guideline for environmental conservation in school: a case study of students in secondary school of Thamvitya Foundation School Yala

Abstract

            This study is aimed at studying knowledge, understanding and attitude on environmental conservation of secondary school’s students and investigating affecting factors on environmental conservation. Measures for building knowledge and understanding on environmental conservation of secondary school’s students are also investigated. Data collection by using questionnaire for 400 samples was carried out. Descriptive statistics i.e. frequency, percentage and means were used to describe results of this study and inferential statistics i.e. t-test, F-test, Chi-square and Pearson’s Correlation were used to analyze hypotheses at a significance level of 0.05.

The results from this study showed that 75.5 % of students receive environmental conservation information from television every day followed by internet and manual or book of 25.5 % and 25.2 %, respectively. They have knowledge, understanding and attitude on environmental conservation at a high level but have behavior on environmental conservation at a medium level. The hypotheses testing showed that the sample with different age and class’s level have different environmental conservation behavior at a significance level of 0.05. Information receiving, knowledge, understanding, attitude and support activities on environmental conservation were found to correlate to their environmental conservation behavior at a significance level of 0.05.