Effects of Training Course for Environmental Protection Volunteer in Schools to Enhance Environmental Knowledge, Ethics and Volunteers

Abstract

ABSTRACT

The purposes of this research were to develop training course for environmental protection volunteers in schools to be efficiency and effectiveness, to compare environmental knowledge, environmental ethics and environmental volunteers of students before and after the training and different gender and grade levels. The sample used for this research were 81 students of KhokKorPittayakomschool by voluntary sampling. The research tools were environmental protection volunteer training course, environmental knowledge test, environmental ethics test and environmental volunteers test. The statistics used in the research were frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation and hypothesis testing by paired t-test and F-test (One-Way MANOVA, One–Way MANCOVA). The results of the study showed that 1) The training course for environmental protection volunteers in schools was a performance index of 84.51/83.51. The effectiveness of the training course index was equal to 0.6983. This showed that students had increased environmental knowledge that results increased students progress at 69.83%. 2) After the training, students had environmental knowledge, environmental ethics and environmental volunteers higher than before the training statistically significantly level of .05. 3) There was no difference of average score of environmental knowledge, environmental ethics and environmental volunteers of students with different gender. There was difference of average score of environmental knowledge, environmental ethics and environmental volunteers of students with different grade levels.