Effective Environmental Education through Half-Day Teaching Programmes Outside School

Table 2

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

		Intervention group: boys (𝑁=26)				Control group: boys (𝑁=34)
		𝑀 pre	𝑀 post	𝑍-value	𝑃-level	𝑀 pre	𝑀 post	𝑍-value	𝑃-level
Boring	Fascinating	4,23	5,08	2,31	0,021*	4,09	4,18	0,04	0,970
Dangerous	Safe	5,23	5,35	0,97	0,334	4,97	5,35	0,95	0,341
Useless	Valuable	4,38	5,00	1,06	0,289	4,21	4,47	0,81	0,420
Disgusting	Cute	3,46	3,85	1,91	0,555	3,55	3,59	0,97	0,332
Uninteresting	Interesting	5,04	5,50	0,94	0,351	4,82	4,38	1,36	0,175
Unnecessary	Necessary	4,92	5,08	0,59	0,556	4,82	4,41	1,65	0,100
Bad	Good	4,54	5,62	2,40	0,016*	4,61	4,35	0,80	0,426
Morbid	Natural	5,85	6,15	1,56	0,120	5,58	5,56	0,04	0,965
Repulsive	Appealing	4,96	5,04	0,34	0,733	4,39	4,35	0,24	0,808
Uncool	Cool	4,38	5,19	2,32	0,020*	4,27	3,97	1,46	0,145
Dull	Funny	4,77	4,88	0,33	0,740	4,33	4,32	0,02	0,986
Weird	Harmless	4,73	5,38	2,30	0,022*	5,24	5,26	0,10	0,920
Worthless	Precious	5,50	6,00	1,04	0,300	4,58	4,91	1,39	0,165

 *𝑃 < 0,05; **𝑃 < 0,01; ***𝑃 < 0,001.