Attitudes of primary school pupils towards the environment

Abstract

The research aims at setting up measure for the tendencies of primary stage students towards environment. It also aims at knowing pupil's tendencies according to variable of sex (males and females). The principal sample of the research consisted of (400) pupils: 200 male, (200) female. The sample had been (20040) fifth-class pupils which was chosen randomly: (8020) male and (12020) female from (324) schools.The researches followed main steps to set up a measure for the tendencies towards environment. The validity of its items has been conducted through apparent validity, the validity of its setting up and through deducting the distinguishing power of its items and calculating its the constancy by the method of half division. The coefficient of its constancy reached to (0.70) by the use of person correlation coefficient.The constancy coefficient became (0.88) after its correction by the use of serman correlation coefficient. When measures were applied in its final form on the research sample, the results were as follows: