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A science literate society or community is a social organization, with traits that can transcend the average knowledge or accomplishments of individuals in that society or community. 2 In light of this broad understanding of science literacy, the committee organized its work to answer the questions posed in the charge by examining evidence at three levels of science literacy: the society, the ...
Science literacy is often construed as knowing the basic facts established by science, but the concept entails much more. We identified three aspects of science literacy common to most applications of the term: content knowledge, understanding of scientific practices, and understanding of science as a social process.
Originally, scientific literacy implied that a citizen should know the products of science but has grown to incorporate processes of science and aspects of the nature of science. Studies on students’ epistemic knowledge are rarer than ones on students’ content knowledge. However, PISA has made an innovative attempt to measure epistemic ...
For the purpose of this paper, we define scientific literacy as a functional understanding of science including, but not limited to, (1) content knowledge consistent with those of the scientific community, (2) understanding of how science works, (3) a sense of what counts as evidence and how to interpret it, and (4) recognition of how science connects to the social dimensions of the world.
One might expect that increasing science literacy in citizens would lead to more common ground on scientific issues. Instead, high levels of science literacy (as judged by factual knowledge) are associated with more extreme polarization on issues (17). A shared set of learned scientific facts seems not to dispel the politicization of science ...
Apr 10, 2021 · Norris and Phillips identified that scientific literacy is most often used to refer to one of the following aspects: knowledge of the substantive content of science and the ability to distinguish what is and what is not science; understanding of science and its applications; ability to think scientifically; ability to use scientific knowledge in problem solving; knowledge needed to participate ...
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Oct 14, 2016 · Excerpt. Science is a way of knowing about the world. At once a process, a product, and an institution, science enables people to both engage in the construction of new knowledge as well as use information to achieve desired ends. Access to science—whether using knowledge or creating it—necessitates some level of familiarity with the ...
