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Instrument | Children’s Environmental Attitude and Knowledge Scale (CHEAKS) |
Author(s) | Frank C. Leeming, William O. Dwyer, and Bruce A. Bracken |
Publication Date | 1995 |
Journal Article | Children’s Environmental Attitude and Knowledge Scale: Construction and Validation |
Journal | Journal of Environmental Education |
Volume | 26 |
Pages | 22-31 |
Scale available in article? | Yes |
Audience | Elementary School Children |
Grade level | Grades 1 - 7 |
Keywords | Elementary, Middle school, Environmental Attitudes, Environmental Knowledge |
Description | CHEAKS was designed to assess the environmental attitudes and knowledge of elementary to middle school aged children. The scale consists of 66 items divided into two subscales: Attitude and Knowledge. The Attitude subscale is comprised of 36 items which sample equally from 6 content domains: animals, water, recycling, energy, pollution, and general issues. Children as asked to rate each item on a 5-point Likert scale of very true, mostly true, not sure, mostly false, and very false. Of the Attitude items, 12 reflect verbal commitment to a future environmentally responsible behavior, 12 measure actual commitment to ERB, and 12 measure affect. The Knowledge subscale consists of 30 items which draw equally from the 6 content areas mentioned above. |
Scoring | The most proenvironmental attitude response on each item received a score of 5 while the least proenvironmental attitude received a score of 1. The range of scores on the Attitude subscale is thus 36 to 180. Knowledge questions answered correctly received a score of 6. The possible range of scores on the Knowledge subscale is 0 to 180. The total possible range of scores on CHEAKS is 36 to 360. |
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