Affiliation:
1. Hacettepe University, Turkey
Abstract
Unconscious resource consumption and environmental problems pose a threat to humanity. Therefore, it is necessary for young individuals to gain ecological literacy knowledge and reflect it in their daily lives in order to know only the changing and developing world. The aim of this research is to adapt a scale to determine the ecological literacy levels of high school students. The sample of the study consists of approximately 530 volunteer high school students. In terms of construct validity, exploratory and confirmatory factor analyzes were performed on the data. Factor analysis of the scale was performed. Sixteen items with an item load of less than 0.45 and burdening more than one factor were removed from the scale, and the remaining 24 items were found to be grouped under five factors. A Cronbach's alpha (α=0.816) scale with high reliability, consisting of five factors and 24 items, including ecological behavioral literacy, information literacy, emotional literacy, ethical literacy, mindfulness literacy, was obtained. The reliability value of the scale is high.
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