Student Attitudes and Knowledge in a Forest Sustainability Escape Game Study

Survey data from 393 8th-grade students assessing attitudes toward nature, environmental attitudes, and knowledge before, immediately after, and 6–9 weeks after an in-class escape game intervention on forest ecosystems. The dataset was created by Juliane Fleissner-Martin and last updated on March 17, 2026. The study investigated the role of pre-existing attitudes on learning and the intervention's effect on fostering pro-environmental behaviors.

Use Cases

• Analyze correlations between initial environmental attitudes and knowledge retention based on pre- and post-test scores.
• Evaluate the longitudinal impact of a short-duration educational game on attitude scores over a 6–9 week period.
• Compare the effectiveness of indoor game-based learning versus outdoor activities for fostering pro-environmental attitudes as suggested in the study's conclusions.

Strengths

• Data from 393 participants provides a substantive sample size for analysis.
• Longitudinal design with three measurement points (pre-, post-, and delayed post-intervention).
• Explicitly measures multiple constructs: attitudes toward nature, environmental attitudes, and knowledge.

Limitations

• Row count and column-level documentation are absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset size is 700.1 KB, indicating a limited scope and likely a small number of variables.
• The description notes the intervention did not alter attitude scores, which may limit findings on attitude change.

Provenance

Source

Juliane Fleissner-Martin via figshare

Collection Method

Survey assessment of 8th-grade students before, after, and 6–9 weeks after an in-class educational escape game intervention.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-17 14:05:01