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Evaluation of Energy Literacy among Nigerian Senior Secondary Students

Bamisile OO, Abbasoglu S and Dagbas M

The main objective of this research is to assess and evaluate the energy knowledge of senior secondary school students in Nigeria. Proposing an energy education policy for Nigeria is the aim of the research. A questionnaire was designed to check the cognitive, affective and behavioral energy knowledge of the students and was administered to 225 students from five different senior secondary school. Statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) software was used in analyzing the data obtained from the questionnaires. The overall energy literacy level of the students as concluded from this research is 47.3%. Although the overall energy literacy level is low, the students showed a good knowledge about the basics of energy. 90.7% of the students know the basics definition of energy and 83.5% of the students know that each and every action on the earth requires energy. Only 22.7% could identify the current electricity production capacity in Nigeria but almost all the student know the authority in charge of electricity production. Also 92.9% of the students recognize that saving energy is important and 88.5% agrees that energy should be an important part of Nigeria senior secondary education curriculum. No specific factor was discovered to affect the students’ energy knowledge as a serious disparity is recorded in different analysis.