The Impact of Educational Films on Attitude and Awareness towards Environmental Problems

Year 2019, Volume: 9 Issue: 4, 757 - 770, 20.12.2019

Semra Benzer , Ezgi Güven Yıldırım , Ayşe Nesibe Önder

https://doi.org/10.24315/tred.526233

Cited By: 2

Abstract

This
study aimed to examine the effects of educational films on the second-grade
elementary school teacher candidates’ attitudes and awareness towards
environmental problems. . In this study, two pre-existing groups were randomly
assigned to experimental and control groups, so the study was designed
according to the pre-test post-test control group quasi-experimental design.
Participants from whom data were gathered were identified through purposive
sampling. The awareness scale towards environmental problems and the attitude
scale towards environmental problems were used as data collection tools in the
study. According to the results there was a significant difference between the
awareness scale mean post-test scores in favor of the experimental group. Also,
the attitude scale mean post-test scores of the teacher candidates were
compared and there was no difference between the attitudes mean scores of the
teacher candidates.

Keywords

Environmental problem, educational film, awareness

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