Developing scales for measuring teachers' acceptance of the environmental education (EE) kit: a pilot study in Malaysian schools

Three indicators were developed to measure the teachers’ acceptability of the EE Kit: perception, attitude and receptiveness. In this study, 81 teachers teaching Science, Geography, English and Malay Language from four public schools in Peninsular Malaysia who received the EE Kit participated. This...

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Main Authors: Sulaiman, Siti Hajar, Tengku Ismail, Tengku Hanidza, Juahir, Hafizan, Harun, Rosta
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IDOSI Publications 2013
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/28947/1/Developing%20scales%20for%20measuring%20teachers.pdf
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author Sulaiman, Siti Hajar
Tengku Ismail, Tengku Hanidza
Juahir, Hafizan
Harun, Rosta
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description Three indicators were developed to measure the teachers’ acceptability of the EE Kit: perception, attitude and receptiveness. In this study, 81 teachers teaching Science, Geography, English and Malay Language from four public schools in Peninsular Malaysia who received the EE Kit participated. This study aimed to describe and analyze the experience of using the EE Kit for teaching environmental education component in the classroom. This study found that, 75/81 (92.59%) knew about the EE Kit, 64/81 (79.01%) used the EE Kit and 11 (13.58%) who knew about the kit but did not use it. Overall, teachers are in favor of the use of the EE Kit in the classroom and recommend it to be used in all schools in Malaysia. Two important issues were highlighted, that is, the need for teacher training on the use of EE Kit and the use of simple English language to suit the need of rural students.
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spelling upm.eprints-289472016-02-03T03:01:19Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/28947/ Developing scales for measuring teachers' acceptance of the environmental education (EE) kit: a pilot study in Malaysian schools Sulaiman, Siti Hajar Tengku Ismail, Tengku Hanidza Juahir, Hafizan Harun, Rosta Three indicators were developed to measure the teachers’ acceptability of the EE Kit: perception, attitude and receptiveness. In this study, 81 teachers teaching Science, Geography, English and Malay Language from four public schools in Peninsular Malaysia who received the EE Kit participated. This study aimed to describe and analyze the experience of using the EE Kit for teaching environmental education component in the classroom. This study found that, 75/81 (92.59%) knew about the EE Kit, 64/81 (79.01%) used the EE Kit and 11 (13.58%) who knew about the kit but did not use it. Overall, teachers are in favor of the use of the EE Kit in the classroom and recommend it to be used in all schools in Malaysia. Two important issues were highlighted, that is, the need for teacher training on the use of EE Kit and the use of simple English language to suit the need of rural students. IDOSI Publications 2013 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/28947/1/Developing%20scales%20for%20measuring%20teachers.pdf Sulaiman, Siti Hajar and Tengku Ismail, Tengku Hanidza and Juahir, Hafizan and Harun, Rosta (2013) Developing scales for measuring teachers' acceptance of the environmental education (EE) kit: a pilot study in Malaysian schools. World Applied Sciences Journal, 23 (6). pp. 726-733. ISSN 1818-4952; ESSN: 1991-6426 http://www.idosi.org/wasj/wasj23(6)2013.htm
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title Developing scales for measuring teachers' acceptance of the environmental education (EE) kit: a pilot study in Malaysian schools
title_full Developing scales for measuring teachers' acceptance of the environmental education (EE) kit: a pilot study in Malaysian schools
title_fullStr Developing scales for measuring teachers' acceptance of the environmental education (EE) kit: a pilot study in Malaysian schools
title_full_unstemmed Developing scales for measuring teachers' acceptance of the environmental education (EE) kit: a pilot study in Malaysian schools
title_short Developing scales for measuring teachers' acceptance of the environmental education (EE) kit: a pilot study in Malaysian schools
title_sort developing scales for measuring teachers acceptance of the environmental education ee kit a pilot study in malaysian schools
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