The Impact of Educational Films on Attitude and Awareness towards Environmental Problems

Abstract

Thisstudy aimed to examine the effects of educational films on the second-gradeelementary school teacher candidates’ attitudes and awareness towardsenvironmental problems. . In this study, two pre-existing groups were randomlyassigned to experimental and control groups, so the study was designedaccording to the pre-test post-test control group quasi-experimental design.Participants from whom data were gathered were identified through purposivesampling. The awareness scale towards environmental problems and the attitudescale towards environmental problems were used as data collection tools in thestudy. According to the results there was a significant difference between theawareness scale mean post-test scores in favor of the experimental group. Also,the attitude scale mean post-test scores of the teacher candidates werecompared and there was no difference between the attitudes mean scores of theteacher candidates.