Factors Influencing Sustainable Development Literacy among Engineering Undergraduates in China: Based on the College Impact Model

Shuyu Qi (), Danning Huang, Qiutong Ma and Mi Zhou
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Shuyu Qi: School of Higher Education, Faculty of Humanities and Social Science, The Capital Research and Development Center for Engineering Education, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China
Danning Huang: School of Higher Education, Faculty of Humanities and Social Science, The Capital Research and Development Center for Engineering Education, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China
Qiutong Ma: School of Higher Education, Faculty of Humanities and Social Science, The Capital Research and Development Center for Engineering Education, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China
Mi Zhou: School of Higher Education, Faculty of Humanities and Social Science, The Capital Research and Development Center for Engineering Education, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China

IJERPH, 2023, vol. 20, issue 2, 1-19

Abstract: Achieving carbon neutrality is a major strategy to combat climate change and achieve sustainable development. Training engineering undergraduates with sustainable development literacy is an important way to achieve this goal in the field of higher education. Based on the college impact model, this research surveyed 1070 engineering undergraduates in Chinese universities to explore the influence of institutional support on undergraduates’ sustainable development literacy, and the empirical analysis was conducted using Structural Equation Modeling. The results showed that institutional support positively and significantly influenced the sustainability development literacy of engineering undergraduates, and student engagement had a mediating role in the relationship between institutional support and sustainability development literacy. Relevant recommendations for cultivating engineering undergraduates with high-level sustainability development literacy are proposed here.

Keywords: sustainable development literacy; institutional support; student engagement; engineering education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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