The College of Wooster
EN-4: Sustainability Culture Assessment
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
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Reporter |
Brian
Webb Director of Campus Sustainability President's Office |
4.1 Sustainability culture assessment design and administration
Narrative and/or website URL providing an overview of of the instruments/tools used to assess sustainability culture:
We used the Sustainability Attitudes Scale by Zwickle and Jones.
Zwickle, A., & Jones, K. (2018).
Knowledge and Attitudes—Assessing Latent Constructs (pp. 435–451). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67122-2_25
Description of the institution’s recent sustainability culture assessment findings and any notable trends:
We surveyed 22 students in an upper level Environmental Studies course. Of 242 data points (11 questions times 22 students) only 7 total data points disagreed with the sustainability perspective, meaning students agreed with the sustainability perspective 97% of the time. The total average score was 5.5 out of 6, with 6 indicating strong agreement with all sustainability questions. Obviously this is a biased sample (students only in an environmental studies course), but it does show strong agreement with sustainability perspectives.
Is the culture assessment designed and administered in such a way that the results can be used to measure change over time?:
Description of how the design and administration of the sustainability culture assessments supports the measurement of change over time:
The assessment can be easily replicated in the same course next year in order to measure sustainability attitudes among environmental studies students over time.
The Reporting Tool will automatically calculate the following figure:
4.2 Percentage of students assessed for sustainability culture
Description of the process used to measure or estimate the percentage of students assessed for sustainability culture:
22 students were surveyed, representing 2% of the total student population.
The Reporting Tool will automatically calculate the following figure:
4.3 Percentage of employees assessed for sustainability culture
Description of the process used to measure or estimate the percentage of employees assessed for sustainability culture:
The Reporting Tool will automatically calculate the following figure:
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