Dataset for "The 19-Item Environmental Knowledge Test (EKT-19): A Short, Psychometrically Robust Measure of Environmental Knowledge"

This dataset consists of two files – one main dataset, and one dataset for the re-test analysis. The main dataset includes an anonymous participant ID, binary responses to 30 environmental knowledge questions, participant's sex, age and duration to complete the task. The re-test dataset includes all the same variables, completed for both the initial study and at re-test after nine weeks. When collecting this dataset, we were seeking to develop a new measure of environmental knowledge, building upon an existing measure by Geiger et al. (2019).

Keywords:

Environmental Knowledge Factor Analysis Item Response Theory Psychometrics Self-Report

Cite this dataset as:
Player, L., Hanel, P., Whitmarsh, L., Shah, P., 2023. Dataset for "The 19-Item Environmental Knowledge Test (EKT-19): A Short, Psychometrically Robust Measure of Environmental Knowledge". Bath: University of Bath Research Data Archive. Available from: https://doi.org/10.15125/BATH-01204.

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Data

EKT-19_Cleaned.xlsx
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet (56kB)
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Main supporting data

EKT-19_Study1Wi … Cleaned.xlsx
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet (38kB)
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Re-test data

Code

EKT19_CFAAnalysis_Open.R
text/plain (4kB)
Software: MIT License

Code for confirmatory factor analysis (CFA)

EKT19_IRTAnalysis_Open.R
text/plain (5kB)
Software: MIT License

Code for Item Response Theory analysis (IRT)

Creators

Lois Player
Data Collector, Data Curator, Data Manager, Project Leader
University of Bath

0000-0002-5583-9212

Paul Hanel
Data Collector, Supervisor
University of Essex

0000-0002-3225-1395

Lorraine Whitmarsh
Supervisor
University of Bath; Cardiff University

0000-0002-9054-1040

Punit Shah
Data Collector, Data Curator, Project Leader, Supervisor
University of Bath

0000-0001-5497-4765

Contributors

University of Bath
Rights Holder

Documentation

Data collection method:

A UK sample of 346 undergraduate students completed the study via the University’s research participation scheme, 121 of whom repeated the study nine weeks later for test-retest analyses.

Additional information:

The data is mostly binary (0,1) denoting (incorrect, correct) answers to the environmental knowledge questions. In the sex variable, 1 denotes male, and 0 female. Age is in years. Duration_EKT30 variable denotes how long the full 30 items of the environmental knowledge measure took each participant, measured in seconds (s).

Funders

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
https://doi.org/10.13039/501100000266

EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Advanced Automotive Propulsion Systems
EP/S023364/1

Publication details

Publication date: 12 June 2023
by: University of Bath

Version: 1

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15125/BATH-01204

URL for this record: https://researchdata.bath.ac.uk/id/eprint/1204

Related papers and books

Player, L., Hanel, P. H.P., Whitmarsh, L., and Shah, P., 2023. The 19-Item Environmental Knowledge Test (EKT-19): A short, psychometrically robust measure of environmental knowledge. Heliyon, 9(8), e17862. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e17862.

Contact information

Please contact the Research Data Service in the first instance for all matters concerning this item.

Contact person: Lois Player

Departments:

Faculty of Engineering & Design
Mechanical Engineering

Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
Psychology

Research Centres & Institutes
EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Advanced Automotive Propulsion Systems (AAPS CDT)