Investigating the Environmental Skill, Attitude, and Knowledge of Bojnourd Islamic Azad University Students

Introduction: The main causes of increased environmental crisis are miseducation and lack of environmental education. Objective: Thepurpose of this research is investigating environmental skill, attitude, and knowledge of Bojnourd Islamic Azad University students during theacademic year 2013–2014. Materials and Methods: It research method is descriptive‑survey. Number of studying students has been 5570;through Cochran formula estimated sample size has calculated to 359 who have been chosen by random‑stratified method. Furthermore, itis noteworthy that to collect data measuring Environmental behavior standard questionnaire of Omran and Mohamadi (2008) has been usedwhich its Cronbach alpha has been calculated 0.732; it indicate that the questionnaire has reliability. The validity of this questionnaire has beenpreviously approved and implemented to analysis data SPSS 21 software has been used after collecting questionnaires. After investigatingdata normality through Kolmogorov–Smirnov and confirming used scale, hypotheses have been analyzed by one‑sample t‑test. Then relationsstatuses between dimensions and research variables according to respondents view have been analyzed. Results: Results have indicated thatsignificance level of knowledge, attitude, and skill variables among Bojnord Islamic Azad University students is more than average and < 5%;with 95% confidence it can be claimed that all hypotheses have been approved (standard value). Conclusions: The environmental skill, attitude,and knowledge are desirable in Bojnourd Islamic Azad University students.

Keywords:

Attitude and skill , environmental behaviors , knowledge , student