Includes CD/CD var:Evaluation of Energy Literacy among Nigerian Senior Secondary School students

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'ABSTRACT The main objective of this research is to assess the energy literacy level among Nigeria Senior Secondary School Students. Energy is an indispensable commodity due to the diversity in its usage. Education being the bedrock for the development of every society is a means of impacting knowledge either in a formal or informal environment. In the formal aspect of education, senior secondary is the foundation for every tertiary learning and lifelong learning. Nigeria is a developing country with vast/diverse energy potential ranging from fossil fuels to renewables. This country is ranked among the largest oil producing and exporting nations in Africa. Renewable energy potential is considerable high in Nigeria and this could reduce the energy gaps between the rural areas and urban areas in Nigeria. Nigeria is blessed with renewable energy resources like Biomass, Wind, Geothermal, Hydropower and Solar. The underutilization of the renewables and the mismanagement of the fossil fuels in the country is evident on it weak power production. About 50% of Nigerians has access to electricity till date. In order to solve future energy crisis in Nigeria, an assessment of the current energy knowledge available to the younger generation is important. A questionnaire was designed to collect data from the students in this research. Five different Senior Secondary School in Nigeria participated in the survey and a total of 225 students were questioned. Statistical Software for Social Sciences is used to analyse the data collected from the survey. A crosstab analysis is also used to check if there are specific factors affecting the students' knowledge. The overall energy literacy level of the students from this research is 47.3%. Although the overall energy literacy level is low, the students showed a good knowledge about the basis of energy. 90.7% of the students knows the basics definition of energy and 83.5% of the students knows 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 knows 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 XI 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. This research gives a detailed report of all the findings in the course of the survey.'