Developing a Framework for Assessing Environmental Literacy

This document presents a new, comprehensive, research-based description of environmental literacy and applies that work to the creation of a framework for an assessment of environmental literacy. This document and the analysis on which it rests are intended as a guide for developers of large-scale national and international assessments of environmental literacy who wish to answer the question “to what degree do targeted populations have the knowledge, skills, dispositions, and behaviors to competently make decisions and act on local, regional, national, and global environmental issues?”