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Doris H. D’Souza | Zendy; Durga Sharma | Zendy; R. P. Singh | Zendy

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Comparing Efficacy of Instructional Approaches to Develop Environmental Awareness Among School Students

Author(s) -

Doris H. D’Souza,

Durga Sharma,

R. P. Singh

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

sage open

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.357

H-Index - 32

ISSN - 2158-2440

DOI - 10.1177/2158244014562387

Subject(s) - psychology , mathematics education , environmental education , regression analysis , applied psychology , medical education , pedagogy , mathematics , statistics , medicine

This study aims to compare efficacy of self-learning, audiovisual,and fun activity instructional approaches among school students of Patna, the capitalcity of Bihar state of India, to develop environmental awareness. The study participantsinclude 144 randomly selected students (72 girls and 72 boys) from eight differentschools of Patna. During a weeklong environmental awareness program, students wereinstructed using above three approaches of instruction. Data have been analyzed by usinglinear regression. Regression was carried out to eliminate the effect of general mentalability (GMA) scores. The results suggest about overall superiority of fun activityapproach over other approaches tested in the present study. However, awareness gain hasbeen significant among the students with high GMA when instructed through audiovisualapproach

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