NDLI: Primary School Students' Attitudes Towards Plants

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Primary School Students' Attitudes Towards Plants

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Yeow, Yap Heng Seah, Sarah Lim, Katherine K.
Copyright Year	2017
Abstract	Although the presence of plants is crucial to human survival, plants tend to be underappreciated. Wandersee and Schussler (1999) highlighted the phenomenon of ‘plant blindness’ which describes the inability to see or notice the plants in our environment, recognise the importance of plants, appreciate the aesthetic and unique biological features of plants and the tendency to rank plants as inferior to animals. The ‘My Garden Project’ was developed by a primary school in the northern part of Singapore to give students the opportunity to experience planting and harvesting their own vegetables at the designated plots in school. The programme complements the prescribed science curriculum and aims to help the students develop a deeper understanding of the life cycle of a flowering plant. The aims of this study were, first, to validate the modified Plant Attitude Questionnaire (mPAQ) as an instrument for measuring students’ existing attitudes towards plants. Second, to evaluate if the ‘My Garden Project’ improves students’ attitudes towards plants. Third, to investigate if there are gender differences in children’s attitudes towards plants. The Cronbach’s alpha for the mPAQ for the pre-test and post-test were greater than .8 indicating good levels of reliability. The pair sample t-test shows that the students’ attitude scores in the post-test (M = 4.24, SD = .55) is significantly higher than the ATP scores in the pre-test (M = 3.87, SD = .55), t (39) = 3.41, p = .002. The independent ttests for gender differences were not significant both in the pre-test and post-test.
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Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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