A STUDY ON LEVEL OF ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN GUNTUR DISTRICT, ANDHRA PRADESH

Abstract

Environmental awareness is an important factor to control pollution problems that can be overcome through environmental education, this study was examine the environmental awareness in secondary school students, via random sampling method; 240 students have been selected from six different schools in Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh. The normative survey method is used to study the level of awareness in students, the Scale constructed and validated by the investigator and calculated the mean, standard deviations and test of significance. The results indicated that there is no significant level of environmental awareness among the students and it differed with gender and location of students.