The Evaluation of Eenvironmental Education and Environmental Protection Practices of Female High School Students in Ilam

Education about environment as a lifelong process that an important partofit has been done in the school environment and has an undeniable role in improving environmental issues. Hence, review of environmental education and its impact on environmental protection is important. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to investigate the role of education about environment on conservative behaviors of environment among the girl students in Ilam City. The method is analytical-descriptive. 360 of students were chosen as the sample and they were given the standard questionnaires by Stratified Sampling Method. The population includes all the girl high school students of Ilam City which 360 of them were chosen as the sample. The data was gathered from the libraries and by field study. Validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by teachers and experts and its reliability was 0.855 by Cronbach's alpha which shows high reliability. To analyze the data, one-sample T-test, correlation and regression (Anova) were done in SPSS software. The findings reveal that the awareness of students about general and special affaires of environment is low. The positive modern attitude toward the environment and environmental education was rejected in regression equation and only the environmental literacy had a positive effect on environmental behavior. On the whole, according to the counted coefficient of determination, these three variables play a role just 25 percent in having an environmental behavior and the rest refers to the factors not covered in this research Due to limitations issue.