Representative research on domain knowledge of students' environmental literacy for 21st Century Competencies Education

Abstract

In order to investigate the relationship among the students' socio-demographic distribution, different scoring of environmental education objectives and various environmental educational objectives, the research directly quoted the Environmental Education Scale in environmental Literacy for high-level graders in elementary schools designed by Lin & Lin (2010) and Yang (2011), and did the questionnaire survey at an elementary school of Taoyuan District, Taoyuan City, Taiwan in May 2016, withdrew 266 copies of effective questionnaires. We analyzed questionnaire responses, and found that students' socio-demographic background just indicates the significant difference between different grades and whether ever been participated in on- or off-campus associations; nevertheless, students obtain the environment relative information mainly from their families, teachers and school education, and most favorable environmental education methods are outdoor experiential learning, peer discussion and teachers' instruction, etc.; various indicators in different value in environmental education objectives are positive attitude; finally, Pearson correlation coefficient tests that diverse environmental education objectives present significant difference, moreover respectively present low and medium level positive correlations, which could be provided as the reference data to evaluate the teaching of environmental education curriculum for high-level graders in elementary schools.