Investigation on environmental knowledge of Urmia University students

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1 MSc. of Forestry, Faculty of Natural Resources, Urmia University, Urmia, I. R. Iran

2 Associate Professor, Department of Forestry, Faculty of Natural Resources, Urmia University, Urmia, I. R. Iran

3 Assistant Professor, Department of Forestry, Faculty of Natural Resources, Urmia University, Urmia, I. R. Iran

Abstract

This study was conducted to study the environmental literacy of students in Urmia University. In this study, the sample size was determined using the Krejcy-Morgan table. From the 7810 students of Faculty of Natural Resources, Engineering, Agriculture and Economics, 466 students of them responded to the questionnaire by random sampling. The questionnaire used in this research is a researcher-made questionnaire, which includes questions in two sections: general environmental questions and regional environmental questions and is set in quintuple Spectrum Pattern. The validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by the experts and the Cronbach's alpha coefficient was used to assess the reliability of the questionnaires. To compare the level of environmental knowledge of college students, one-way analysis of variance and Duncan's comparison test were used. Spearman correlation test was used to determine the relationship between the level of environmental knowledge and parameters such as age, number of family members, father's education, mother's education and monthly income level of the family. There was no significant difference between the studied faculties (5% = α) regarding to level of general knowledge. However, in the case of regional environmental knowledge, the level of this knowledge is the highest in students of the Faculty of Natural Resources and the least amount was in the students of the Faculty of Science and Engineering.

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Forest Research and Development
Volume 5, Issue 1
June 2019
Pages 41-54

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