Evaluation of an energy conservation program for 9th grade students

The Energy Challenge is an environmental education program that is administered to ninth
grade students in the public schools of a small Midwestern city in the United States. The
program is sponsored and administered by the two local electric utilities, and it has been
going on for seven years. To determine the effectiveness of the program, a pretest-posttest
mail survey of students and parents was performed. The results suggest that the Energy
Challenge has a positive effect on improving knowledge, motivation, and behavior of
students concerning home energy usage and conservation.