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Abstract: A statewide test of fifth and ninth graders' knowledge about and attitudes toward the oceans and Great Lakes was administered in 1979, 1983, and 1987, offering a longitudinal study of awareness change currently unparalleled in environmental education research. Over the years of the study, knowledge scores increased slightly except for humanities items. Earth science topics, however, showed the greatest deficiencies among the science items, and oceanic attitudes declined over the period. Differences in knowledge scores by race, sex, and coastal proximity, all noted in earlier tests, were insignificant by 1987. The 1987 assessment also showed classrooms to be the most important source of student information, as opposed to movies and television for the 1979 test.
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