Global Warming Through the Eyes of Filipino Secondary Students in Tacloban City, Philippines

Abstract

This study was conducted to investigate the understanding of global warming of first-year high school students taking Integrated Science in Tacloban City, Leyte, Philippines. A 30-item questionnaire with a reliability coefficient value of ÏKR20=0.8132 was administered to randomly chosen sample of 360 student-respondents from five public secondary schools. It was revealed that 3.89 % of the respondents got high scores (18-23), 54, 44 % got moderate scores (12 -17), 32.78 % obtained low scores (7-11) and 8.89 % got very low scores (1-6), with a mean of 11.95.  Moreover, respondents’ age, sex, and economic status showed a positive relationship to their understanding of global warming. Consequently, the older the respondent and the higher the family income, the higher is the understanding of global warming. On the whole, the female had a higher score than the male participants.