Measuring the environmental literacy of Malaysian secondary school students
2001
Ebil Yusof
This paper presents the findings of the level of the Environmental Literacy (EL) of secondary school students in Peninsular Malaysia. A modified version of the Florida EL Survey instrument was used to determine the EL of secondary school students who attended the Environmental Education Center (EEC) in Lanchang, Pahang. It can be concluded that, environmental education program at the centre of this study yielded neither the desired curriculum outcomes based on the ecology component of the course standards for biology nor the desired learning based on the 1993 curriculum frameworks. Environmental education delivered through science content does not engage the expressed intentions of the "awareness to action" model for environmental education. The current delivery media of science education do not facilitate achieving EL. The findings of this research suggest a need for systematic, comprehensive assessment of the EL of Malaysia's secondary school students to determine if the level of EL of the general population of secondary school is a slow as that suggested by this sample.
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