Abstract

The objective of this present study was to analyze and understand how the assessment determines both cognitive and affective elements (of the contextual and personal areas) of the behavior of students with the environment. The guiding questions were, what is the assessment that students of the Catholic University of Maule is giving to environmental issues? Is there any difference in the assessment of students, between the personal and contextual field within the attitudinal variables? Is there any difference in the assessment of students, including the scope of pollution and conservation area within the environmental variables? For that, the environmental scale of attitudes by Moreno, was applied to 115 students from the Catholic University of Maule, Talca, Chile. An adequate internal consistency of the scale is confirmed; an α Cronbach = 0,804 was detected that it is in the attitudinal variables, corresponding to the personal framework, where the major differences occur i.e., assessment and moral obligation, and the minor differences were found in the contextual scope variables: social norm, facilitation and information, respectively. This is relevant, since it tells us that the contextual scope variables are the ones that must be strengthened by enhancing the Curriculum through reinforcing environmental education.