Assessing Students’ Knowledge, Attitudes, and Environmental Behavior Related to Global Warming and Its Impact on The Marine and Coastal Environment: An Instrument-Making

Abstract

Global warming has been a serious problem faced by the world for hundreds of years. The main cause is human activity. With the impact of global warming increasingly felt, especially in marine and coastal areas, environmental knowledge, attitudes, and behaviour need to be instilled in humans to overcome this problem. The success of education in instilling these things needs to be measured with a valid instrument. The purpose of this study was to develop an instrument to measure environmental knowledge, attitudes and behaviour related to global warming and its impact on the marine and coastal environment. This study consists of content validity involving 5 validators, then empirical validity testing and reliability testing involving 129 students. The results of the study showed that expert assessments stated that the developed instrument was valid. The results of the empirical validity test and reliability test also stated that the instrument was valid and reliable for use. This shows that the instrument can be used to measure environmental knowledge, attitudes and behaviour related to global warming and its impact on the marine and coastal environment.