The trend of high school students participation behavior toward conservation of aquatic ecosystem

Abstract

This study aims to determine 1) the trend of high school students participation behavior toward conservation of aquatic ecosystem 2) the difference in trend of high school male and female student participation behavior toward conservation of aquatic ecosystem. This research was descriptive qualitative, conducted on 33 students who come from two different schools. The number of male student samples were 16 male students and 17 female students. Data were collected by using questionnaires consisting of 25 questions. Results showed that trend of high school students participation behavior toward conservation of aquatic ecosystems included into the high category. The percentage of high school students participation behavior with high category is 57.6%. Percentage of students with low category of participation was 6.1%. From the results of the T test, it was known that the significance level was 0.767, it means there was no significant difference between trend of male and female students’ participation behavior toward the conservation of aquatic ecosystems. From result of the average score, trend of participation behaviors student male was higher than that of female students, but the difference was not significant.