High School Students' Knowledge, Attitudes, and Levels of Enjoyment of an Environmental Education Unit on Nonnative Plants 

 -  The Journal of Environmental Education, 37(1), p.13-25, 2005 .
<br/><br/> The authors applied constructivist leaning theory to environmental education to explore knowledge gains, student attitudes, and engagement among high school students exposed to a week-long unit on nonnative plant species. The authors compared constructivist and traditional teaching methods. Each class was given a pretest and a posttest. The constructivist group significantly increased knowledge scores and attitudes, whereas the traditional group did not. The 2 groups did not differ significantly on engagement. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>ATTITUDES<br/>CONSTRUCTIVIST LEARNING THEORY<br/>ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION (EE)<br/>ENVIRONMENTAL KNOWLEDGE<br/>STUDENT ENGAGEMENT