INVESTIGATION OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL INTEREST OF STUDENTS WHO SPEND THEIR LEISURE IN THE SCHOOL GARDENS

Authors : Dilek Selçuk, Mustafa Can Koç, Nurullah Emir Ekinci, Ersan Tolukan

Pages : 46-54

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Publication Date : 2023-07-25

Article Type : Research Article

Abstract :This study aimed to examine the interest of students who spend their leisure in the school garden towards the environment. The study group of the research consisted of 51 male and 229 female students studying at Şehit Onbaşı Murat Şengöz imam Hatip Secondary School in the Arnavutköy district of Istanbul. The data were collected online via Google forms. In addition to demographic information, the \" Secondary School Environmental Interest Scale \" developed by Şentürk (2020) was used as a data collection tool. As a statistical process, the data were evaluated in IBM SPSS (version 24.0) statistical package programme. A normality test was performed to determine whether the study data showed normal distribution and non-parametric tests were used in statistical analysis due to the lack of normal distribution. In this context, Mann Whitney-U and Kruskal Wallis tests were used in the study. According to the results, no significant difference was found in age and grade level, while a significant difference was found in the biodiversity sub-dimension according to gender. As a result, it was concluded that although the interest of the students who spend their leisure in the school garden is unrelated to their age, girls are more interested in the environment and this situation did not differ regardless of the grade level.
Keywords : Serbest zaman, Okul bahçesi, Öğrenci, Çevreye Karşı İlgi