Teaching Environmental Education By Using Research-Based Learning For Undergraduate Students

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Surasak Kaeongam , Prayoon Wongchantra

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This research aims to find efficiency and effectiveness of learning activities teaching environmental education by using research-based learning for undergraduate students, to study and compare the environmental knowledge, environmental attitude and environmental ethics of students before and after learning, students with different gender and different grades. The sample used in the study were 50 the 3th Year undergraduate students in Environmental Education program, Faculty of Environment and Resource Studies, Mahasarakham University, which is obtained by purposive sampling. The research tools were the plans of teaching environmental education by using research- based learning, the environmental knowledge test, environmental attitude test and environmental ethics test. The statistics used for data analysis were frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation and hypothesis testing using t-test, F-test (One–Way MANOVA, One–Way MANCOVA and Univariate Test. The results of the research showed that 1) Teaching environmental education by using research - based learning which developed by the researcher was found that the efficiency was 92.43/86.45 which set to 80/80 criteria and the effectiveness index was 0.7813 indicating that the students had progress in learning by 78.13%. 2) After learning, the students’ average score of environmental knowledge, environmental attitude and environmental ethics was higher than before learning as the statistical significance level .05. 3) There was difference of environmental knowledge, environmental attitude and environmental ethics of the students with different gender as the statistical significance level .05. 4) There was no difference of environmental knowledge, environmental attitude and environmental ethics of the students with different grad (p> .05).

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