What Is Scientific Literacy?

Scientific Literacy: Internationally, scientific literacy is generally summarized into three components: understanding of scientific knowledge; understanding of scientific research processes and methods; and understanding of the impact of science and technology on society and individuals.

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Scientific Literacy: Internationally, scientific literacy is generally summarized into three components: understanding of scientific knowledge; understanding of scientific research processes and methods; and understanding of the impact of science and technology on society and individuals.

At present, countries generally adopt this standard when measuring their scientific literacy. Have basic scientific literacy: Only those who meet the requirements in the above three aspects can be considered as the public with basic scientific literacy.

Chinese name

scientific ethics

Foreign name

Scientific Literacy

Meaning

Basic knowledge of scientific knowledge

Influencing factors

education

The understanding and expression of the meaning of citizen scientific literacy are updated with the continuous changes of social and economic development, and have a deep era background. As the research on scientific literacy is still at the stage of research perfection, there is no unified and widely accepted expression. The following are some representative expressions:

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The status of Chinese citizens' scientific literacy is:

1. In general, the scientific literacy of citizens has gradually improved, but there is still a large gap compared with developed countries;

2. Different groups show obvious group differences: lower ages are higher than higher ages; the higher the level of education, the higher the overall level; urban citizens are higher than rural ones;

3. The change in the level of citizen scientific literacy shows that the level of groups with lower scientific literacy has increased rapidly, especially the lower level of education (referring to junior high school education) and the overall improvement in the overall level of scientific literacy of rural citizens. Significant impact on the improvement of citizens' overall scientific literacy;

4. Citizens have a low level of understanding of scientific research processes and methods;

5. Citizens

Education is the main factor affecting the scientific literacy of citizens in China. Economy is the driving factor for citizens to improve their scientific literacy. Political factors play a guiding role in improving the scientific literacy of Chinese citizens. Culture also profoundly affects the scientific literacy of Chinese citizens. effect.

Education is the main factor affecting the scientific literacy of our citizens. Establish and improve a nationwide population that adapts to China's economic and social development

Public science literacy is about

Nearly 97% of Chinese citizens do not have basic scientific literacy. The Chinese Science and Technology Association released the results of the 8th Chinese Citizens Scientific Literacy Survey on November 25, 2010. According to the" Eleventh Five-Year Plan "period, Chinese citizens scientific literacy levels have improved significantly. The proportion of citizens with basic scientific literacy in the mainland (excluding Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan) reached 3.27%. The results show that the level of scientific literacy of Chinese citizens today is equivalent to that of Japan, Canada, the European Union and other major developed countries and regions in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

The 8th Chinese Citizen Scientific Literacy Survey organized by the China Science Popularization Research Institute was launched from November 2009 to May 2010. This large-scale sampling questionnaire survey involves mainland China (excluding Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan regions). ) Citizens aged 18 to 69 in 31 provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities, and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps conducted home visits. A total of 69360 questionnaires were distributed and 68,416 were effectively recovered.

The survey quantitatively measures the level of scientific literacy of Chinese citizens from three aspects: "understand the necessary scientific knowledge", "master the basic scientific methods", and "advocate the spirit of science". Recognized as having basic scientific literacy. According to comprehensive calculations, the proportion of Chinese citizens with basic scientific literacy reached 3.27% in 2010. Among them, the proportion of citizens who knew the necessary scientific knowledge was 14.67%, the proportion of citizens who mastered basic scientific methods was 9.75%, and the proportion of citizens who advocated scientific spirit was 64.94. %.

The China Association for Science and Technology stated that in the future, it will continue to do a good job in the investigation of scientific literacy of citizens, and provide support for the formulation and implementation of the National Science Quality Action Plan (2011-2015). The Association will also conduct a national survey every five years in accordance with the needs of the construction of Chinese citizens' scientific literacy, during which special surveys will be conducted for specific populations, regions or issues, in order to improve the scientific literacy of the entire population and build an innovative country.