Research Article

Effective Environmental Education through Half-Day Teaching Programmes Outside School

Table 1

Means for pre- and posttest of attitudes towards small animals for intervention and control groups. Statistical significance of differences was computed by the nonparametric Wilcoxon test for paired samples.

Intervention group ( )Control group ( )
pre post -value -level pre post -value -level

BoringFascinating4,115,143,760,000***4,044,020,460,649
DangerousSafe5,235,521,710,0865,075,230,400,690
UselessValuable4,345,142,510,012*4,074,300,900,368
DisgustingCute3,303,822,480,013*3,223,260,890,376
UninterestingInteresting4,735,452,720,006**4,484,131,210,226
UnnecessaryNecessary4,615,202,580,010**4,484,191,370,170
BadGood4,455,483,240,001**4,504,280,840,399
MorbidNatural6,056,271,290,1985,705,570,580,563
RepulsiveAppealing4,684,951,120,2654,334,280,270,790
UncoolCool4,325,002,880,004**4,203,851,990,046*
DullFunny4,704,860,650,5174,224,280,320,746
WeirdHarmless4,665,322,770,006**5,115,020,560,572
WorthlessPrecious5,236,052,520,012*4,434,661,160,246

 * < 0,05; ** < 0,01; *** < 0,001.