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Environmental Sensitivity

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This paper explains the procedure of developing and standardizing an environmental sensitivity scale constructed by the investigator to measure the environmental sensitivity of secondary school students. The scale has been constructed by using Likert’s method of summation to obtain a five point judgment on each item. After critical study related to environmental education and environmental sensitivity five areas namely wildlife and forests, environmental pollution, population explosion, health and hygiene and conservation of environment were selected for constructing the tool. The pilot study had 90 items, related to all the five areas mentioned above. The newly constructed scale had face validity, content validity and reliability. …show more content…

population explosion, health and hygiene, environmental pollution, wildlife & forests and concern for the conservation of environment. Individuals must have some cognitive knowledge of the environment to develop an intelligent concern for their natural surroundings. Education is a powerful medium for changing our behavior. Thus, this is a crucial time to realize that environmental sensitivity and environmental friendly behavior should be cultivated among masses particularly among adolescents through education. For the awareness of the society about the environment, it is essential to work at grass root level so that the whole society can work to save the environment. For this purpose, it is essential to educate and train children regarding the significance of healthy environment. When the students learn about the functioning of ecosystem and about environmental action strategies that contribute to their maintenance, they develop more environmentally responsible behavior on a daily basis. Therefore, environmental education has been recently strongly emphasized and has been taken into consideration when planning school curriculum by the developed and developing countries. Further, environmental education has been …show more content…

“Environmental Sensitivity Scale for secondary school students” consists of 70 items. While forming the items, related literature was extensively reviewed and the items were tried to be formed considering the behaviours of students regarding environment awareness and sensitivity. Student’s awareness of environment concerning the nearest environment of the students and the behaviours for protecting the environment.
The scale is Likert type five point rating scale and the student who answers the statements chooses one of the alternatives such as (5) strongly agree (4) agree (3) don’t know (2) disagree (1) strongly disagree, considering the demonstration level of the behaviour that each statement expresses. Therefore, by adding the total scores obtained, only one score is reached related to student’s environmental sensitivity. Thus, when all the statements are answered, the possible scores that a student can get from the scale ranges from 70 (the lowest) to 350 (the highest). While the high score obtained from the application indicates that the level of the student’s environmental sensitivity

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