INFLUENCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION MODULAR CURRICULUM ON ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AND CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING

Year 2018, Volume: 8 Issue: 2, 150 - 171, 28.05.2018

Hüseyin Artun Tuncay Özsevgeç

Abstract

The
purpose of this study was to examine the influence of the environmental
education modular curriculum on secondary school students’ academic
achievements and on their conceptual understanding. In the study, the case study
method was used. The research sample included a total of 23 7^th
grade students (12 male and 11 female) who were determined with the purposeful
sampling method and who were attending a secondary school in the city center of
Gümüşhane at the time of the study. In the study, as the data collection tool,
achievement tests and semi-structured interview questions were used. In order
to reveal whether there was a statistically significant difference between the
pretest and posttest achievement tests, t-test, one of parametric tests, was
applied. According to the results of the analyses, the environmental education
modular curriculum had positive influence on the secondary school students’
academic achievements as well as on their conceptual understanding.

Keywords

Modular curriculum, environmental education, conceptual understanding, academic achievement

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