The Effect of Teacher-Assistant Project on the Transfer of Environmental Concepts to 11th-Grade High School Students in Kashan

Unfortunately, nowadays, the environment has faced many challenges, and addressing these challenges requires rethinking, re-creating, and repairing in order to preserve human life on Earth. Environmental education, especially in schools, has an undeniable role to play in alleviating these problems. The way of teaching, especially active teaching methods, has a great effect on students' self-learning abilities, one of the most important of which is the cooperative method. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of the teacher-assistant plan on the transfer of environmental concepts to 11th-grade high school students in Kashan. The research method was quantitative and based on the quasi-experimental method. The population of the study consisted of all male students of 11th-grade public schools in Kashan, 1171 people, who were selected using the available sampling method of two classes of 30 people. A researcher-made questionnaire was used to collect data, the content validity of which was confirmed by environmental experts, and its reliability was obtained using Cronbach's alpha coefficient equal to 0.87. Data were analyzed at two levels, descriptive (mean and standard deviation) and inferential (univariate and multivariate analysis of covariance) with SPSS26 software. The results showed that education based on the teacher-assistant plan is effective in transmitting environmental concepts and their components (excluding sound and biodiversity and tourism) to students. Therefore, it is possible to increase the quantity and quality of the transfer of environmental concepts in students by using appropriate teaching methods, the overflow of which can improve the environmental level of society.