Effect of Gender on Environmental Literacy of High School Students in Bali, Indonesia
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.210312.055How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Environmental literacy, Human behaviour, Education, T-test analysis
- Abstract
Environmental problems are one of the concerns of the world community. Environmental problems can be overcome if people have literacy toward the environment. The environmental literacy can be influenced by a variety of demographic variables. The purpose of this study was to describe the effect of gender on students’ environmental literacy. This study is an ex post facto research. The population of this study was the twelfth-grade students majoring in Mathematics and Natural Sciences at Public High School 1 Melaya Jembrana Bali Indonesia. The number of samples in this study was 140 students consisting of 54 male and 86 female students. The instrument used in this study was an environmental literacy inventory consisting of five dimensions, including knowledge, attention, sensitivity, attitudes, and behavior toward the environment. The environmental literacy inventory was created in Google forms and distributed to students online. Students’ environmental literacy data were analyzed using the independent sample t-test. The results showed that the environmental literacy of male and female students is still low category and there was no difference in environmental literacy between male and female students.
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- © 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Ni Putu Ayu Parwati AU - I Wayan Redhana AU - I Nyoman Suardana PY - 2021 DA - 2021/03/13 TI - Effect of Gender on Environmental Literacy of High School Students in Bali, Indonesia BT - Proceedings of the First International Conference on Science, Technology, Engineering and Industrial Revolution (ICSTEIR 2020) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 332 EP - 336 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210312.055 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.210312.055 ID - Parwati2021 ER -