学校绿色化和学生学业成绩:来自全球南方的证据
Raquel B Jimenez1, Matthew Bozigar2, Patricia Janulewicz3
1Engineering Sciences Department School of Engineering Universidad Andres Bello Santiago Chile.
GeoHealth
|August 4, 2023
概括
学校的绿色环境对学生的学业表现产生了积极的影响,特别是在南美洲的公立学校. 这项研究表明,提高考试成绩和学习标准的成就与学校更多的植被有关.
科学领域:
- 环境健康 环境健康
- 教育心理学教育心理学
- 城市生态城市生态学
背景情况:
- 现有的关于学校绿色化和学术表现的研究主要来自北半球的生态研究,结果各不相同.
- 来自全球南方的证据,特别是关于个人学生的成绩,仍然有限.
研究的目的:
- 在智利圣地亚哥调查学校绿化与学生学业表现之间的关联.
- 在不同类型的学校 (公立,特许,私立) 中探索这种协会的变化.
主要方法:
- 这是一项对圣地亚哥1,498所学校的281,695名四年级学生 (2014-2018) 的横截面研究.
- 通过标准化测试成绩和学习标准在数学和阅读方面的成绩来衡量学术表现.
- 使用规范差异植被指数 (NDVI) 量化了学校的绿色;统计模型根据社会人口统计因素进行了调整.
主要成果:
- 校园绿化增加0.1与较高的数学 (36.9分) 和阅读 (1.84分) 测试成绩相关.
- 增加的绿色与在数学 (OR: 1.20) 和阅读 (OR: 1.07) 中达到学习标准的更高几率有关.
- 协会在公立学校更强大,在私立学校不显著.
结论:
- 高等学校的绿色与改善了南美城市环境中小学学生的个人学术成果有关.
- 校园绿化可能有助于缓解城市地区的教育和环境差异.
- 调查结果强调了将绿色空间纳入学校环境的重要性,以支持学生的成绩.
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