Awareness and attitude on environmental issues: A mixed method approach

Abstract

This study aims to answer seven questions; It seeks to determine the level of student’s environmental awareness among the BSED students’ of UMPC; (2) to determine the level of environmental attitude; (3) to determine the significant relationship between awareness and attitude on environmental issues; (4) to ascertain if what domains of awareness significantly influence attitude on environmental issues; (5) to find out if what activities/initiatives experience in schools that enhance the awareness and attitude on environmental issues; (6) to find out if what are the activities experience in school that diminish the awareness and attitude on environment. The researchers applied mixed-method design in this study. Data was collected from 162 students out of 278 through an online sample size calculator called Raosoft to determine the sample size of different programs. Further, we investigated the significant relationship between the students’ awareness and attitude on environmental issues among 1st to 4th year BSED students of all programs (English, Filipino, Math) at UMPC during the S.Y. 2023-2024. The level of awareness and attitude on environmental issues of students were found significantly high. Based on the statistics results, this implies that environmental awareness has an influence towards the environmental attitude, prompting the acceptance of the null hypothesis.