Examination of Water Literacy Levels Secondary School Students in Terms of Different Variables

Year 2023, Volume: 5 Issue: 1, 194 - 208, 30.06.2023

Sadettin Erbaş , Gökçe Kılıçoğlu , Bülent Aksoy

https://doi.org/10.51535/tell.1244043

Abstract

The aim of this research is to examine the water literacy levels of secondary school students in Turkey in terms of different factories. The research is designed within the survey model. The sampling of the research consists of 408 secondary school students enrolled in schools in Turkish cities of Istanbul, Ankara, Trabzon, Kutahya, and Yozgat. Data is collected via 3 sub-dimensional water literacy scale developed by Sözcü and Türker, (2020a) as well as personal information sheet developed to determine water literacy levels of secondary school students. As a result of the research, when the scores of the secondary school students from the sub-dimensions of the water literacy scale were evaluated, it was found that the gender variable did not make a significant difference on the water literacy, but there was a significant difference in terms of the class level variable, advantaging class 5 and 6. There was a significant difference in the parent education variable, disadvantaging illiterate parents. Likewise, the significant difference was in favour of those with lower family income in the family income variable; in advantage of internet users in internet usage variable; in advantage of city dweller students for the sub-dimension of water conservation in the variable of the settlement they live in; in advantage of villager students for the sub-dimension of water sensitivity; in advantage of those who had less time to be in nature for the sub-dimension of water sensitivity in the variable of being in the natural environment. Water literacy can be added to environmental issues in order to make students gain water literacy in the primary education program.

Keywords

Water Literacy, Water Conservation, Water Sensitivity, Water Awareness, Secondary School Students

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