Effective Environmental Education through Half-Day Teaching Programmes Outside School

Table 3

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

		Intervention group: girls (𝑁=18)				Control group: girls (𝑁=13)
		𝑀 pre	𝑀 post	𝑍-value	𝑃-level	𝑀 pre	𝑀 post	𝑍-value	𝑃-level
Boring	Fascinating	3,94	5,22	3,06	0,002**	3,92	3,62	0,98	0,327
Dangerous	Safe	5,22	5,78	1,50	0,132	5,31	4,92	0,77	0,441
Useless	Valuable	4,28	5,33	2,73	0,006**	3,69	3,85	0,40	0,686
Disgusting	Cute	3,06	3,78	1,57	0,117	2,38	2,38	0,00	1,000
Uninteresting	Interesting	4,28	5,39	2,90	0,004**	3,62	3,46	0,70	0,944
Unnecessary	Necessary	4,17	5,39	2,94	0,003**	3,62	3,62	0,06	0,953
Bad	Good	4,33	5,28	2,39	0,017*	4,23	4,08	0,10	0,917
Morbid	Natural	6,33	6,44	0,36	0,721	6,00	5,62	0,95	0,343
Repulsive	Appealing	4,28	4,83	1,22	0,221	4,15	4,08	0,40	0,686
Uncool	Cool	4,22	4,72	1,65	0,099	4,00	3,54	1,42	0,155
Dull	Funny	4,11	4,83	0,56	0,576	3,92	4,15	0,84	0,401
Weird	Harmless	4,56	5,22	1,57	0,117	4,77	4,38	0,91	0,363
Worthless	Precious	4,83	6,11	2,45	0,014*	4,08	4,00	0,06	0,953

 *𝑃 < 0,05; **𝑃 < 0,01; ***𝑃 < 0,001.