A Development of an Environmental Literacy Scale for Undergraduate Students in the Faculty of Environmental Culture and Ecotourism
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environmental literacy, norms, scale developmentAbstract
The purposes of this research were to 1) develop and test the quality of the environmental literacy scale for undergraduate students in the Faculty of Environmental Culture and Ecotourism, and 2) establish the norms. The data were collected from 108 undergraduate students enrolled in the Environmental Technology Program, Faculty of Environmental Culture and Ecotourism, at an autonomous university in Bangkok, using purposive sampling. The research findings were as follows: 1) On the environmental literacy scale, there were 78 questions in total, consisting of 3 components: The first component is knowledge in the form of four multiple-choice tests, consisting of 24 items; the second component is the dispositions in the form of 5-point rating scales, consisting of 30 items; and the third component is the competencies in the form of multiple-choice tests, consisting of 24 items. The content validity of the scale (IOC) was above .50; the level of difficulty of components is knowledge and the competencies ranged from . 57-.77 and .60-.77, the power of discrimination of components 1, 2, and 3 ranged from .20-.47, .27-.71, and .27- .47, the reliability was .76, .92, and .80, and; 2) The norm was divided into five levels: T66 or above, T55-T65, T45-T54, T35-T44, and T34, representing very high, high, moderate, low, and very low levels. The assessment indicated that the environmental literacy level of most undergraduate students was moderate.
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