Scientific Knowledge and Attitudes towards Native Plants among Students of the Faculty of Education at Al-Asmarya Islamic University
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Keywords: Scientific knowledge, attitudes, native plants, Faculty of Education, Al-Asmarya Islamic University.Abstract
This study aimed to identify the level of scientific knowledge and attitudes towards native plants among students of the Faculty of Education at Al-Asmarya Islamic University, Zliten, Libya, during the fall semester of the 2025/2026 academic year. The study investigated the level of awareness concerning plants in general and the concept of “plant blindness,” which refers to a lack of interest in plants. The descriptive-analytical approach was used to describe the intellectual and emotional state of the study sample, which consisted of 231 female students from the Faculty of Education at Al-Asmarya Islamic University, selected using stratified sampling. A scientific knowledge test and an attitude scale based on the Likert scale were used to collect the required data. Several statistical methods were used to analyze the data, including frequencies, percentages, means, and standard deviations, in addition to the independent-samples t-test to compare specializations in the sciences and humanities. The results showed that attitudes towards the preservation of native plants were high, with a mean of 3.79. There was no significant difference in attitudes towards native plants based on academic specialization in the sciences and humanities. There was also no statistically significant difference in scientific knowledge or attitudes towards native plants based on academic year at the 0.05 level.
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