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Environmental education through mural painting activities as to enhance secondary school students' knowledge and awareness on environment

This study aims to evaluate the impact of environmental education activities and mural painting appreciation in enhancing students' knowledge and awareness to the environment. Environmental education activities were performed in classes for an hour per week for four times. Mural painting activi...

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Main Authors: Othman, Rohana, Harun, Rosta, Muda, Azizi, A. Rashid, Noriati, Othman, Fadhilah
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Published: IDOSI Publications 2011
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/23579/1/Environmental%20education%20through%20mural%20painting%20activities%20as%20to%20enhance%20secondary%20school%20students%27%20knowledge%20and%20awareness%20on%20environment.pdf
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spelling my.upm.eprints.235792020-06-02T06:40:29Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/23579/ Environmental education through mural painting activities as to enhance secondary school students' knowledge and awareness on environment Othman, Rohana Harun, Rosta Muda, Azizi A. Rashid, Noriati Othman, Fadhilah This study aims to evaluate the impact of environmental education activities and mural painting appreciation in enhancing students' knowledge and awareness to the environment. Environmental education activities were performed in classes for an hour per week for four times. Mural painting activity with the theme of marine ecosystems were conducted outside the classroom for a month. The design of this study was quasi-experimental with a pretest-posttest control group and experimental group, involving 128 students from two ordinary secondary schools in Gombak district, Selangor. The students divided into two groups according to the schools to represent the control and experimental groups, i.e. 64 students for each group. This study used three types of instruments, which are pretest, first post-test and second post-test. Each instrument consists of 20 multiple choice knowledge questions and 18 statements on the environmental awareness based on the 5 Likert scale. The results indicated that the experimental group significantly increased their environmental knowledge and awareness after the experiment, whereas the control group did not. IDOSI Publications 2011 Article PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/23579/1/Environmental%20education%20through%20mural%20painting%20activities%20as%20to%20enhance%20secondary%20school%20students%27%20knowledge%20and%20awareness%20on%20environment.pdf Othman, Rohana and Harun, Rosta and Muda, Azizi and A. Rashid, Noriati and Othman, Fadhilah (2011) Environmental education through mural painting activities as to enhance secondary school students' knowledge and awareness on environment. World Applied Sciences Journal, 14. pp. 101-106. ISSN 1818-4952; ESSN: 1991-6426 https://www.idosi.org/wasj/wasj14(UPM)2011.htm English
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description This study aims to evaluate the impact of environmental education activities and mural painting appreciation in enhancing students' knowledge and awareness to the environment. Environmental education activities were performed in classes for an hour per week for four times. Mural painting activity with the theme of marine ecosystems were conducted outside the classroom for a month. The design of this study was quasi-experimental with a pretest-posttest control group and experimental group, involving 128 students from two ordinary secondary schools in Gombak district, Selangor. The students divided into two groups according to the schools to represent the control and experimental groups, i.e. 64 students for each group. This study used three types of instruments, which are pretest, first post-test and second post-test. Each instrument consists of 20 multiple choice knowledge questions and 18 statements on the environmental awareness based on the 5 Likert scale. The results indicated that the experimental group significantly increased their environmental knowledge and awareness after the experiment, whereas the control group did not.
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author Othman, Rohana
Harun, Rosta
Muda, Azizi
A. Rashid, Noriati
Othman, Fadhilah
spellingShingle Othman, Rohana
Harun, Rosta
Muda, Azizi
A. Rashid, Noriati
Othman, Fadhilah
Environmental education through mural painting activities as to enhance secondary school students' knowledge and awareness on environment
author_facet Othman, Rohana
Harun, Rosta
Muda, Azizi
A. Rashid, Noriati
Othman, Fadhilah
author_sort Othman, Rohana
title Environmental education through mural painting activities as to enhance secondary school students' knowledge and awareness on environment
title_short Environmental education through mural painting activities as to enhance secondary school students' knowledge and awareness on environment
title_full Environmental education through mural painting activities as to enhance secondary school students' knowledge and awareness on environment
title_fullStr Environmental education through mural painting activities as to enhance secondary school students' knowledge and awareness on environment
title_full_unstemmed Environmental education through mural painting activities as to enhance secondary school students' knowledge and awareness on environment
title_sort environmental education through mural painting activities as to enhance secondary school students' knowledge and awareness on environment
publisher IDOSI Publications
publishDate 2011
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/23579/1/Environmental%20education%20through%20mural%20painting%20activities%20as%20to%20enhance%20secondary%20school%20students%27%20knowledge%20and%20awareness%20on%20environment.pdf
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