TY - JOUR
T1 - Designing an energy literacy questionnaire for middle and high school youth
AU - DeWaters, Jan
AU - Qaqish, Basil
AU - Graham, Mary
AU - Powers, Susan
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors acknowledge with appreciation the six individuals (A. Heidenreich, W. Kissam, J. Lane, T. Rogers, A. Schwartz, K. Visser) who served on the expert validity panel and reviewed survey criteria and potential items, as well as the numerous teachers and students who assisted in the pilot studies. This research was supported by the National Science Foundation through their Distinguished Teaching Scholar award (DUE-0428127). The findings and opinions presented here do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the funding agency.
PY - 2013/1/1
Y1 - 2013/1/1
N2 - A measurement scale has been developed to assess secondary students energy literacy-a citizenship understanding of energy that includes cognitive as well as affective and behavioral items. Instrument development procedures followed psychometric principles from educational and social psychology research. Initial exploration of the measure yielded promising results: internal consistencies for the cognitive, affective, and behavioral subscales, measured by Cronbach's α, ranged from 0.75 to 0.83; average discrimination indices ranged from 0.27 to 0.46. The instrument's validity was supported with contrasted-groups and developmental-age progression comparisons, as well as factor analyses. The energy literacy questionnaire provides an opportunity to measure baseline levels of energy literacy and to assess broader impacts of educational interventions.
AB - A measurement scale has been developed to assess secondary students energy literacy-a citizenship understanding of energy that includes cognitive as well as affective and behavioral items. Instrument development procedures followed psychometric principles from educational and social psychology research. Initial exploration of the measure yielded promising results: internal consistencies for the cognitive, affective, and behavioral subscales, measured by Cronbach's α, ranged from 0.75 to 0.83; average discrimination indices ranged from 0.27 to 0.46. The instrument's validity was supported with contrasted-groups and developmental-age progression comparisons, as well as factor analyses. The energy literacy questionnaire provides an opportunity to measure baseline levels of energy literacy and to assess broader impacts of educational interventions.
KW - energy education
KW - energy literacy
KW - energy questionnaire
KW - survey
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U2 - 10.1080/00958964.2012.682615
DO - 10.1080/00958964.2012.682615
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84870284053
SN - 0095-8964
VL - 44
SP - 56
EP - 78
JO - Journal of Environmental Education
JF - Journal of Environmental Education
IS - 1
ER -