英文摘要 |
The quasi-experiments quantitative studies on environmental teaching have accumulated abundantly in Taiwan. However, the meta-analysis on the studies was deficient. Therefore, this study reviewed the quasi-experiments quantitative studies in the environmental teaching for the students in the elementary and junior high school in Taiwan from July 1994 to June 2010. Meta-analysis and Hierarchical Linear Modeling were employed to analyze the overall effect on the environmental attitude teaching for the students in the elementary and junior high school, and to search the possible moderating variables, based on the findings of 50 master/doctoral theses in National Central Library and Taiwan Digital Meta-Library. The findings and conclusions of this study indicated that: (a) with respect to the overall effect size, the overall environmental attitude teaching for the students in the elementary and junior high school was above the medium(=0.67). (b) with environmental teaching intervention, teaching times, weeks, sample sizes and teaching styles were moderating variables. Teaching models characterized by different styles gave higher effect than the certain styles. The years of experiments, educational stages and teaching experiences were not found to have impact on teaching effect. The findings of this study provide the references and suggestions to the educational policies, program designs, teaching practices, and the future researchers for the further researches in the environmental education. |