ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS AMONG THE COLLEGE STUDENTS IN DIFFERENT EDUCATIONAL STREAMS

Research Background: According to, Biggs & Tang, (2011), educational streams provide structured curricula focusing on particular domains, such as sciences, arts, commerce, or vocational education, allowing students to acquire knowledge, skills, and competencies relevant to their chosen field. That way in this study, investigator, to find out the impact of educational streams on level of environmental awareness of the college students.  

Objectives: The study objective was to find out the significant difference in environmental awareness among the college students of different educational streams. Another objective was to examine the significant difference in environmental awareness among the college students of arts, science, and commerce streams.

Procedure: The study one hundred twenty college students were selected from different educational streams. Their age range were between 19 to 23 years. The purposive sampling technique was used for the selection of the samples. The study educational streams was independent variable and environmental awareness was dependent variable. The study Environmental Awareness Scale (EAS) developed by Haseen Taj (2001) has been used.

Conclusions: It can be concluded that there is no significant difference found in the level of environmental awareness among the college students of different educational streams as well as, insignificant difference found in environmental awareness among the college students of arts, science, and commerce streams.