LEVEL OF ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS AMONG HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS OF HOLY CHILD HIGH SCHOOL IN VILLABA, LEYTE

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RUBY ANN C. JUANCE, Holy Infant College, Tacloban City. LEVEL OF ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS AMONG HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS OF HOLY CHILD HIGH SCHOOL IN VILLABA, LEYTE ADVISER: DR. LILIA P. ADRALES The research study was conducted in Holy Child High School in Villaba, Leyte using the stratified random sampling in which each grade or year level is the stratum. The respondents of the study were taken from all high school students of HCHS from Grade 7 to Fourth Year with a population of about 346 high school students. The sample size being taken from the population was 186 high school student respondents, using the Slovin’s Formula with a sampling error of 5% or 0.05. The study tried to find out the level of environmental awareness of students from Grade 7 to Fourth Year based on the home/community factors, which include family involvement, community programs/projects, and local/municipal ordinances and school factors which include curriculum integration and school programs/projects. The study showed that the dominant respondents are the female (118 or 63%) than the male (68 or 37%) and many of them are living not in the town proper/poblacion (104 or 56%) than in the town proper/poblacion (82 or 44%) and mostly came from the public schools (170 or 91%) than the private schools (16 or 9%). The home/community factors which include family involvement was rated to be “good” (3.381), community programs/projects was rated to be “fair” (2.488), and local/municipal ordinances was rated to be “good” (2.864). School factors, which include curriculum integration was rated “very good” (3.846) and school programs and projects was rated to be “good” (3.404). ANOVA showed that there is a significant difference in the level of environmental awareness among high school students from Grade 7 to Fourth Year in the family involvement, since computed F(3, 182) = 4.999 is greater than the tabular F(3, 182) = 3.902, at α = 0.01. There is a significant difference in the level of environmental awareness among high school students from Grade 7 to Fourth Year in the community programs and projects, since the computed F(3, 182) = 4.896 is greater than the tabular F(3, 182) = 3.902, at α = 0.01. There is no significant difference in the level of environmental awareness among high school students from Grade 7 to Fourth Year in the local/municipal ordinances, since the computed F(3, 182) = 3.435, which is less than the tabular F(3, 182) = 3.902. There is no significant difference in the level of environmental awareness among high school students from Grade 7 to Fourth Year in the curriculum integration, since the computed F(3, 182) = 3. 877, which is less than the tabular F(3, 182) = 3.902, at α = 0.01. There is no significant difference in the level of environmental awareness among high school students from Grade 7 to Fourth Year in the school programs and projects, since the computed F(3, 182) = 3. 821, which is less than the tabular F(3, 182) = 3.902, at α = 0.01. The hypothesis has no significant difference in the level of environmental awareness among the high school students from Grade 7 to Fourth Year in Holy Child High School in Villaba, Leyte based on the home/community factors which include family involvement and community programs/projects is rejected. The hypothesis that there is no significant difference in the level of awareness among high school students in home/community factor in the local/municipal ordinances and school factors which include curriculum integration and school programs/projects is accept.