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The development of an attitude scale to assess the attitudes of high school students towards renewable energy sources

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  • Çelikler, Dilek
  • Aksan, Zeynep

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The aim of this study was to develop a scale that can assess the attitudes of high school students regarding renewable energy sources. The study data were obtained from a total of 433 high school students enrolled in the 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th grades of a high schools in a provincial capital in northern Turkey. The five-point Likert type scale with 48 items that was developed assessed the attitude of high school students regarding renewable energy sources. To determine the construct validity of the scale, a factor analysis was performed with the 48 items. Based on the factor analysis, eleven more items were removed from the scale, and the remaining 37 items were organized under seven dimensions. The reliability coefficient of the obtained factors varied 0.704 and 0.913, while the internal consistency coefficient for the 37-item scale was calculated as 0.753.

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  • Çelikler, Dilek & Aksan, Zeynep, 2016. "The development of an attitude scale to assess the attitudes of high school students towards renewable energy sources," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 54(C), pages 1092-1098.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:rensus:v:54:y:2016:i:c:p:1092-1098
    DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2015.10.049
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    1. Buldur, Serkan & Bursal, Murat & Yalcin Erik, Nazan & Yucel, Eren, 2020. "The impact of an outdoor education project on middle school students’ perceptions and awareness of the renewable energy," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 134(C).
    2. Sideri Lefkeli & Evangelos Manolas & Konstantinos Ioannou & Georgios Tsantopoulos, 2018. "Socio-Cultural Impact of Energy Saving: Studying the Behaviour of Elementary School Students in Greece," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(3), pages 1-14, March.

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