scholarly journals Environmental Education to Change the Consumption Model and Curb Climate Change

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (18) ◽  
pp. 7475
Author(s):  
Leticia-Concepción Velasco-Martínez ◽  
Juan-Jesús Martín-Jaime ◽  
Ligia-Isabel Estrada-Vidal ◽  
Juan-Carlos Tójar-Hurtado
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
Compulsory Education ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Responsible Consumption ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Consumption Model ◽  
Mitigate Climate Change

Environmental education plays a fundamental role in the fight against climate change and the transformation towards a more sustainable and environmentally friendly socio-economic model. This study shows how to evaluate the effectiveness of a program for compulsory education students in Spain. The subject of the program focused on the effects of climate change in relation to our consumption model and the generation of waste. A mixed research methodology is proposed that combines a quantitative (10 items on the Likert scale, n = 714) and qualitative approach (category construction and analysis on open-ended questions). A study of the reliability and validity of the measure was carried out through a categorical principal component analysis (CATPCA). The multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) correlates the gender and educational level of the students to the learning acquired in the program. For example, the results show how students are convinced that adopting minimal pro-environmental habits (turning off lights and unplugging electronics, choosing public transport to get around, or using solar and wind power to produce electricity) can help mitigate climate change. The conclusions show the difficulties and challenges of education for responsible consumption, emphasizing the development of environmental education programs for reducing the effects of climate change.

scholarly journals Characterization of Environmental Education in Spanish Geography Textbooks

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 1159
Author(s):  
Juan Antonio García-González ◽  
Saúl García Palencia ◽  
Irene Sánchez Ondoño
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Secondary Education ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
Compulsory Education ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Primary And Secondary Education ◽  
Official Curriculum ◽  
The Subject

Environmental problems endanger the sustainability and survival of our planet. A way to raise awareness of the seriousness of the current environmental situation among future citizens and instill proactive behaviors that place the environment at the center of decision-making is environmental education. This study analyzes nine primary and secondary education textbooks in order to see what environmental education students receive as part of the subject of geography across the years of compulsory education in Spain. These textbooks are published by three different and main companies, which are a good example of the adaptation of the official curriculum. The study was conducted using the design and development of a coding sheet combining analysis of format (quantitative) and content (qualitative). The results show much room for improvement there is in environmental education in Spain. This improvement should start from the organization of the curriculum and its subsequent transposition into the textbooks. Thus, many changes are needed if we wish to build a society capable of effectively solving the threat of the environmental problems that surround us.

scholarly journals Design, Validation and Implementation of a Questionnaire to Assess Teenagers’ Digital Competence in the Area of Communication in Digital Environments

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 6733
Author(s):  
Ana Iglesias-Rodríguez ◽  
Azucena Hernández-Martín ◽  
Yolanda Martín-González ◽  
Patricia Herráez-Corredera
Keyword(s):  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Identity Management ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Compulsory Education ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Psychometric Validation ◽  
Digital Competence ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Design Validation

This article describes the process of design, validation, and implementation (N = 609) of a questionnaire drawn up ad hoc to assess the digital competence of compulsory education students (ages 11 to 13) in the area of communication. The test measures students’ knowledge, skills, and attitudes in the six competences that make up the area of communication, as established in the Framework for the Development and Knowledge of Digital Competence in Europe (DigComp): interacting through new technologies, sharing of information and content, online citizen participation, collaboration through digital technologies, netiquette, and digital identity management. The purposes of the study are to design and validate an instrument to assess compulsory education students’ digital competences in the area of communication based on their knowledge, skills, and attitudes and to analyse such instrument’s psychometric characteristics with special emphasis on its reliability and validity. The method used consisted of the implementation of various psychometric validation techniques and the analysis of the results based on statistical descriptions. Items show adequate discrimination and difficulty indices. Validity was guaranteed through expert judgement and factorial analysis of the test. The conclusion stresses the pressing need for education centres to provide students with adequate educational-communicative training.

scholarly journals Investigating South Africa’s Fresh Peach and Nectarine Value Proposition: Measuring Progress on Achieving Sustainable Consumption in Exports

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 2615
Author(s):  
Chiedza Zvirurami Tsvakirai ◽  
Teboho Jeremiah Mosikari
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
South African ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Sustainable Consumption ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Composite Indices ◽  
Responsible Consumption ◽  
Value Propositions ◽  
Development Goals

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have shone a spotlight on the importance of adaption to climate change. However, progress in achieving SDG 12 which calls for, “responsible consumption and production” has been stalled by the unavailability of indicators that adequately capture and motivate increased responsible consumption. To fill this gap, this article presents an alternative indicator that makes use of cultivar characteristics and uses South African fresh peach and nectarine exports as a focus area. Principal component analysis is used to extract and summarize the product value propositions identified in composite indices that were constructed by weighting the proportional use of cultivars in exports between 1956 and 2017. The indices acquired from the analysis were found to measure the provisions for sustainable consumption, good-quality fruit and off-peak fruit supply. The study’s results show that progress was found in the provisions for sustainable consumption and this was mainly driven by improvements in cultivars’ climate change adaptability. However, the last two decades have been characterized by years of successive lower readings on this index. Improvements in fruit quality index were found to be attained at the expense of farm enterprise productivity. The study concludes that strategies be developed to encourage the use of cultivars that promote responsible consumption as, if left uninfluenced, market forces will spur unsustainable production.

scholarly journals A Measurement Tool for the Assessment of Farmers’ Perception about Impact of Changing Climate on Agriculture in India

2022 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-127
Author(s):  
Rohit Shelar ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Environmental Problem ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Measurement Tool ◽  
Review Of Literature ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Changing Climate ◽  
Rating Method ◽  
Mitigate Climate Change

Changing climate is a serious environmental problem affecting agricultural productivity at global level. It is important to study the perceptions of farmers’ towards changing climate and its impact on agriculture as it is one of the strong interpreters of changing farmers’ behaviour to mitigate climate change and adopt adequate and appropriate measures to ensure agricultural production. For the construction of the scale to measure the farmers’ perception, summating rating method suggested by Likart (1932) was followed. Based on review of literature 79 statements were enlisted initially and 21 statements were finalized for the final construction of the scale. The reliability and validity of the scale was calculated to find out the precision and consistency of the results. This scale will be helpful for interested policy makers, academicians and researchers who willing to study the farmers’ perceptions about climate change and its impact on agriculture.

Nurturing hope: From climate-change worriers to eco-warriors

2020 ◽  
pp. 48-53
Author(s):  
Sally Birdsall
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Education Research ◽  
Young People ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
Climate Change Education ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Crucial Element ◽  
Climate Change Effects ◽  
Political Studies ◽  
Mitigate Climate Change

Young people are worried about the impacts that climate change will have on their lives. Educators need learning programmes that can help students to manage these dark emotions and become more positive about their future. Including emotions in climate-change education is now considered a crucial element and hope, in particular, has been identified as a motivating force which can help young people to become more positive and take action to respond to the climate emergency. Drawing on recommendations from the environmental-education field, as well as peace and political studies education research, eight strategies and approaches are proposed. These approaches and strategies can nurture hope and develop knowledge and skills, so that students can take action to mitigate climate change effects and feel hopeful about their future.

scholarly journals Imagining a Sustainable World: Measuring Cognitive Alternatives to the Environmental Status Quo

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua D. Wright ◽  
Michael T. Schmitt
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Identity ◽  
Strong Predictor ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Environmental Status ◽  
Initial Scale ◽  
Mitigate Climate Change ◽  
Additional Variance ◽  
Willingness To Engage

We build on social identity models of environmental collective action by considering the role ofpeople’s access to cognitive alternatives to the environmental status quo. We developed a new measure of cognitive alternatives to the environmental status quo, and examined its ability to predict environmental activist identification and willingness to engage in environmental activism. In Study 1 (N = 386), we developed the initial scale, and found evidence for its reliability and validity. The ability to imagine cognitive alternatives was associated with other relevant social identity and environmental variables including perceived legitimacy of the current environmental status quo, pro-environmental consumer and activist behavior, and beliefs in anthropogenic climate change. In Study 2 (N = 393), we confirmed the factor structure of the scale and found that it was a strong predictor of environmental activist identification, explaining variance beyond extensive control variables including identification with nature. It also explained additional variance in willingness to engage in activist behavior beyond even environmental activist identification. Our results suggest that the ability to imagine cognitive alternatives to the environmental status quo might have important implications for whether people engage in pro-environmental collection action to mitigate climate-change and other environmental problems.

scholarly journals Análise da percepção ambiental de alunos do ensino básico acerca da qualidade da água

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (20) ◽  
pp. 19-29
Author(s):  
Carmem Sara Pinheiro de Oliveira ◽  
Gabriel Contini ◽  
Niltom Vieira Junior
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
Basic Education ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Health Authorities ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The City ◽  
Primary Agent

Resumo A qualidade da água é uma necessidade universal, que exige atenção por parte das autoridades sanitárias e consumidores em geral. Os problemas ambientais, especialmente os relacionados a este recurso, têm se acentuado, de acordo com o crescimento populacional. Deste modo, intervenções, sobretudo as destinadas a formar um pensamento crítico na população, se fazem necessárias, para se obter resultados significativos, entre elas a educação ambiental. A escola é o principal agente para esclarecer, produzir consciência e formar comportamento cidadão participativo nas questões ambientais. Para isso, é necessário medir o conhecimento prévio dos alunos a respeito do assunto. Então, esta pesquisa visou conhecer, por meio da aplicação de um questionário, a visão de discentes do 7º ano do Ensino Básico Fundamental de uma escola pública situada no município de Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, acerca de inúmeras situações relacionadas à qualidade de água, que dizem respeito à sociedade, à saúde e ao meio ambiente. Os resultados mostram que, apesar de não existir uma disciplina específica para a educação ambiental, os conhecimentos empíricos dos alunos sobre o tema são mais adequados que os conteúdos abordados dentro da disciplina Ciências, que necessitariam de outra abordagem, mais ativa e efetiva, pois o conhecimento formal nesta área se apresentou insuficiente. Palavras-chave: Ciências. Educação ambiental. Ensino fundamental. Qualidade da água. Abstract Water quality is a universal need, which requires attention from health authorities and consumers in general. Environmental problems, especially those related to this resource, have been accentuated, according to population growth. Thus, interventions, especially those aimed at forming critical thinking in the population, are necessary to obtain significant results, including environmental education. The school is the primary agent to clarify, raise awareness and form participatory citizen behavior on environmental issues. Therefore, it is necessary to measure the students' prior knowledge on the subject. Hence, this research aimed to know, through a questionnaire, the view of 7th grade students of a public basic education school located in the city of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, about numerous situations related to water quality, which concern society, health, and the environment. The results show that, although there is no specific subject for environmental education, students' empirical knowledge on the topic is more appropriate than the content covered within the Science subject, which would need another, more active and effective approach, as the formal knowledge in this area proved to be insufficient. Keywords: Sciences. Environmental education. Elementary school. Water quality Resumen La calidad del agua es una necesidad universal, que requiere la atención de las autoridades sanitarias y de los consumidores en general. Los problemas ambientales, especialmente los relacionados con este recurso, se han acentuado, de acuerdo con el crecimiento de la población. Por lo tanto, intervenciones, especialmente las destinadas a formar un pensamiento crítico en la población, son necesarias, para que se logren resultados significativos, entre ellas la educación ambiental. La escuela es el principal agente para aclarar, generar conciencia y formar comportamiento ciudadano participativo en las cuestiones ambientales. Para ello, es necesario medir los conocimientos previos de los estudiantes sobre el tema. Entonces, esta investigación tuvo como objetivo conocer, mediante la aplicación de un cuestionario, la opinión de los estudiantes del séptimo año de educación básica de una escuela pública ubicada en la ciudad de Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, sobre numerosas situaciones relacionadas con la calidad del agua, que afectan a la sociedad, a la salud y al medioambiente. Los resultados muestran que, aunque no exista una disciplina específica para la educación ambiental, el conocimiento empírico de los estudiantes sobre el tema es más adecuado que los contenidos cubiertos por la disciplina Ciencias, que necesitarían un enfoque más activo y efectivo, porque el conocimiento formal en esta área demostró ser insuficiente. Palabras-clave: Ciencias. Educación ambiental. Educación básica. Calidad del agua.

Using Principal Component Scores to Enhance the Validity and Reliability of Big Five Personality Measures

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-93
Author(s):  
Jeffrey M. Cucina ◽  
Nicholas L. Vasilopoulos ◽  
Arwen H. DeCostanza
Keyword(s):  
Big Five ◽  
Discriminant Validity ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Scoring Method ◽  
Five Factors ◽  
Big Five Factors ◽  
Component Scores

Abstract. Varimax rotated principal component scores (VRPCS) have previously been offered as a possible solution to the non-orthogonality of scores for the Big Five factors. However, few researchers have examined the reliability and validity of VRPCS. To address this gap, we use a lab study and a field study to investigate whether using VRPCS increase orthogonality, reliability, and criterion-related validity. Compared to the traditional unit-weighting scoring method, the use of VRPCS enhanced the reliability and discriminant validity of the Big Five factors, although there was little improvement in criterion-related validity. Results are discussed in terms of the benefit of using VRPCS instead of traditional unit-weighted sum scores.

التغير المناخي واثره في المقنن المائي لمحصول العنب في محافظة ديالى

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (34) ◽  
pp. 391-422
Author(s):  
اشواق حسن حميد صالح
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Wind Speed ◽  
Extreme Temperature ◽  
Solar Brightness ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Climate Station ◽  
The Times ◽  
High Level ◽  
Very High

Climate change and its impact on water resources is the problem of the times. Therefore, this study is concerned with the subject of climate change and its impact on the water ration of the grape harvest in Diyala Governorate. The study was based on the data of the Khanaqin climate station for the period 1973-2017, (1986-2017) due to lack of data at governorate level. The general trend of the elements of the climate and its effect on the water formula was extracted. The equation of change was extracted for the duration of the study. The statistical analysis was also used between the elements of the climate (actual brightness, normal temperature, micro and maximum degrees Celsius, wind speed m / s, relative humidity% The results of the statistical analysis confirm that the water ration for the study area is based mainly on the X7 evaporation / netting variable, which is affected by a set of independent variables X1 Solar Brightness X4 X5 Extreme Temperature Wind Speed ​​3X Minimal Temperature and Very High Level .

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