Replication Data for Gamifying Renewable Energy: Enhancing Pre-University Students’ Knowledge and Attitudes Toward Science and Technology

This article presents the results of a cooperative non-formal educational activity, using an escape room about renewable energy, as part of the Horizon Europe Project “Transition to sustainable future through training and education (TRANSIT)”. The activity aimed to enhance environmental awareness, highlight the importance of renewable energy and encourage secondary education students to pursue higher education studies in this field, by proposing five different gamified activities related to various renewable sources. It was conducted with high school students in November 2023, at the School of Industrial Engineering of the Technical University of Madrid (UPM) as part of Madrid Science and Innovation Week. An ad-hoc survey was designed by academics with experience in educational research and active methodologies to explore students' knowledge regarding renewable energies and attitudes towards S\&T. The questionnaire had three differentiated parts. The first part explored students' attitude towards science in general, renewable energy in particular, and career related paths for them. It included 11 items with a 4-point Likert scale from 1 (completely disagree) to 4 (completely agree). A scale with no intermediate option was chosen to avoid ambiguous positions. Another 6 items proposed multiple options questions about renewable energy and were aimed to assess students' knowledge on the matter. Finally, four items, again with a 4-point Likert scale from 1 (completely disagree) to 4 (completely agree), assessed students' opinion about the escape room activity. The survey shows a high reliability with Cronbach alpha=0.815 A pre-test/post-test design was implemented. Likert-scale questions related to ``attitude'' were repeated in the post-test, whereas ‘knowledge items' varied from the pre-test to the post-test, ensuring that they addressed the same contents with an equivalent difficulty level.