A Relational Study on Environmental Attitude and Environmental Competencies of Prospective Teachers

The aim of the present investigation was intended to find out correlation between the environmental attitude and environmental competencies of prospective teachers. The study was conducted on the sample of six hundred prospective teachers from different government and private B.Ed. colleges of Chittoor and Guntur districts of Andhra Pradesh. The researcher has used environmental attitude scale and environmental competencies scales to assess the correlation between the environmental attitude and environmental competencies of prospective teachers. The results of the study showed that there is a significant positive correlation between environmental attitude and environmental competencies of prospective teachers with regard to whole sample. There is a significant positive correlation between environmental attitude and environmental competencies of male and female prospective teachers. There is no significant positive correlation between environmental attitude and environmental competencies of rural and urban prospective teachers. There is a significant positive correlation between environmental attitude and environmental competencies of government and private prospective teachers.