Investigating the impact of environmental education on improvement of students' environmental awareness (case study: Karaj city high schools)

Environmental education is the most basic method in protecting the environment, the purpose of which is to find the most appropriate and best system and method of presenting materials and implementing a structure that is the basis for improving environmental awareness at the community level. In the current research, the effect of education in improving students' awareness about the importance of environmental issues has been investigated.

The current research is applied in a descriptive, correlational and relational manner and its implementation method is carried out in the field using a questionnaire and data analysis using SPSS software. For the purpose of investigation, 150 questionnaires were collected by random cluster sampling among the students of the pre-eleventh grade in Karaj city and 150 of the eleventh grade students.

The results of the Spearman correlation coefficient are as follows: Students of the 11th grade who have had a human and Environmental book as part of their courses, their awareness about the environment has increased.

Also, the higher the education level of the students' fathers, the more the students' awareness of the environment has increased. The results of the correlation coefficient between two variables of mother's education and students' awareness about the environment indicate that there is a significant relationship between the two variables at the 5% error rate. In other words, the higher the level of mother's education, the more students' awareness is about the environment.