Assessment of Environmental Knowledge of Secondary School Students in Relation to Their Gender and Localities

The Adolescent school going boys and girls are very emotional and sensitive about any issue what they learn. So also the Environmental education must not be presented to them with a sense of doom or disaster so they don't avoid or dislike it. !gain many factors are responsible in shaping their level of awareness and knowledge. Personal characteristics, environmental factors, gender, localities, customs and traditions, and various societal factors are more or less important contributing factors in Knowledge and awareness. For the present study researchers assumed the localities and gender as factors of Environmental Knowledge. For that purpose, the State, West Bengal has been divided into six topographical zones and a sample of 680 (N = 680) Secondary School Students of different parts of West Bengal has been taken. Environmental Knowledge Scale (EKS) developed by researchers has been used to measure the selected variable. Descriptive statistics along with t-test have been employed to analyze the data. No difference of the Environmental Knowledge was found in case of gender but the significant differences were found in case of localities. It might be concluded that the localities might mediate in pro-Environmental Knowledge of person.