إتجاهات طلبة الصف الثاني الثانوي العلمي (التوجيهي) نحو البيئة في مدارس لواء قصبة الزرقاء في الاردن

Abstract

ABSTRACT Enviromnent represents the total o_f circum stences & external factors, in which the living being live & it affects the vital operations carried out by their beings, this environment represent nature such as desert; the seas, climate, territorialfeatures, water, plants, animals & social environment. It also represents the social relationships that are found among individuals & groups environment studies have occupied an important position in the last ears of the twentieth century, ‘as a result of the increase of population that was accompanied by technological & scientific an cement in all walks of live & the spread of factories & the increase of their wastes. This study aimed identifying the attitudes of second secondary students the scientific stream, at Zarqa district schools in Jordan, towards the environment, taking in to account that Zarqa city is characterized by a high population density & a lot of factories. The study aimed answering the following sub- questions: l. Do the student’s attitudes towards environments differ according to the family’s income? . 2. Do the student’s attitudes towards environments differ according . to their academic achievement? 3. Do the student’s attitudes towards environments differ according to the parent’s educational level? ' 4. Do the student’s attitudes towards environments differ according to the place of residence, on the basis of the distribution in terms of urban, rural & nomadic backgrouels? The population of the study was all the second secondary student’s — the saentific stream, of the schools of the education directorate in the district of Zarqa for the academic year of (1997- 98). Their student’s number was (2518) males & females, distributed among (28) secondary schools. The sample of the study was (400) male and female student’s, which was selected randomly from the study’s population representing (16%) of the study’s population. The researcher, indorder to answer the study’s questions, constructed an instrument that contained (45) items representing three major dimensions as follows:- l. Sources of environmental pollution (l5item) . 9 2. Problems resulting from the environmental pollution (l4item) C 1

3. Treatment of the problem of environmental pollution (l6item) The study’s instrument was validated by a panel of (12) specialist referees, and its reliability was checked by re-using it on (40) male & female student’s from outside the study’s sample. Also the Pearson correlation was calculated & found to be (0.85). The study’-s instrument was conducted on‘ all the samples members, and the statistics of each of the study’s question were obtained. The results were as follows:- First: The results related to the major question of the study, which is — what are the attitudes of the second secondary class- scientific stream in the district of the Zarqa, towards the environment? The frequencies & relative importance for each item of the scale were worked out. The relative importance for all items was high ranging from 94% to 53% for about 42item & it was less then 50% for only three items. These result refer to the high rate of environmental awareness, among the sample’s members, resting sources of pollution the problem resulting from it & Ways of treating it. The T-test was used on each items of the scale & on each of its dimensions, to identifying the differences between the males & female attitudes towards environment. The results revealed that there are differences of statistical significance at the level of 5% among males & female, in fervor of female’s (15) items. Also there were differences between the two sexes on all of the scales major dimensions & again in favor of females. Second: The result’s of the first sub-question of the study, which was: Do student attitudes towards environment differ according to the family’s income level? A The results from the analysis of variance(ANOVA) for each item of the scales there dimensions and all its dimensions to gather, revealed that there were no differences of statistical significance at the level of (.05%) among the sample individuals with regard to their family’s income level. Third: The result related to the second sub-question, which is- Do student’s attitudes towers enviromnent differ according to their academic achievement. The results from using the analysis of variance (ANOVA) conceming the student’s answers whose achievement were high, those whose achievements more average at those Whose achievements were low; on the scales three dimensions & on all its, demesnes together revealed that their were no differences of statistical significance at the level of (0.05) with regard to the students achievement level, except for the second dimension related to the problems resulting from the environmental pollution which the individuals answers were of statistical