Constructing an inventory to study the energy literacy of university students
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https://doi.org/10.37387/ipc.v13i2.412Keywords:
energy literacy, measurement scales, professional training in the environmental fieldAbstract
This article presents the procedure used in the construction of an instrument to study the energy literacy of Panamanian university students, which can be very useful for their professional training with a perspective oriented towards the rational use of energy. The instrument was built considering three variables, one of a cognitive type focused on the understanding of basic scientific and technical concepts about energy, the second of an affective type based on favorable attitudes towards responsible energy consumption and the third of behavioral type that considers the commitment to effective actions to save energy. As a result, the Energy Literacy Inventory (IAE) was obtained, after being subjected to a validation process that included expert judgment and a reliability process through the application of Cronbach's Alpha and McDonald's Omega. Its total reliability, measured by Cronbach's Alpha, is 0.897. The reliability of the instrument by variable or dimension (cognitive, affective and behavioral), measured by both tests, shows different results between them, with the cognitive being the one with the lowest performance in exchange for the rest whose performance is quite satisfactory. The results are discussed, and the respective conclusions are drawn
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