Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Summary of Survey Results

Attitudes towards Biological Conservation of the SSS 1207 Class of Undergraduate Students

Date of Survey: 21 Feb 2008

Participants: Class of 405 with 310 respondents (76.5%) but only 280 (69.1%) completed the survey, so only their responses were used for the analyses.

Finding 1: Students had similar conservation attitudes for plant species, animal species or natural habitats and did not value any one more over the other.

Finding 2: Students were more likely to exhibit private conservation behaviours than public conservation behaviours.

Finding 3: Students from the income groups with less than $4,000 per month or more than $8,000 per month, had more pro-conservation attitudes compared to students from the $4,000–8,000 group.

Finding 4: Students who are taking or had previously taken conservation-related modules had more pro-conservation attitudes than those who have not.

Finding 5: Students who are from the School of Computing have more pro-conservation attitudes than average; while students from the Business School have less pro-conservation attitudes than average (see below).

The ranking of conservation attitude results are as follows:

  1. School of Computing
  2. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
  3. School of Design and Environment
  4. Faculty of Science
  5. Faculty of Engineering
  6. Business School