While there are many environmental education programs for children, few studies have used an appropriately developed scale for evaluating how such education might have on impact on children's environmental orientations. The research presented in this article adapted the NEP (New Ecological Paradigm) for Children scale to develop a new instrument for measuring children's environmental attitudes: the NEP (Children@School). The NEP (Children@School) has been developed by analysing the impact of the design of physical learning spaces on children's environmental attitudes. Factor analysis indicated that NEP (Children@School) has three dimensions: Children's Environmental Attitudes towards Human Intervention, Children's Environmental Attitudes via ESD at School, and Children's Environmental Attitudes towards Eco-Rights. We argue that NEP (Children@School) can meaningfully measure the impact of learning spaces on children's environmental attitudes. While the instrument was developed for use in Australia, it has been designed for global applicability.

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NEP (Children@School)：一种测量儿童中期环境态度的工具

虽然有许多针对儿童的环境教育计划，但很少有研究使用适当开发的量表来评估此类教育如何对儿童的环境取向产生影响。本文介绍的研究采用了 NEP（新生态范式）儿童量表，以开发一种用于测量儿童环境态度的新工具：NEP（儿童@学校）。NEP（Children@School）是通过分析物理学习空间设计对儿童环境态度的影响而制定的。因子分析表明，NEP（Children@School）具有三个维度：儿童对人类干预的环境态度、儿童通过学校可持续发展教育的环境态度和儿童对生态权利的环境态度。我们认为 NEP (Children@School) 可以有意义地衡量学习空间对儿童环境态度的影响。虽然该仪器是为在澳大利亚使用而开发的，但它是为全球适用而设计的。