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Student and school-level factors to predict science literacy for two top-performing countries in PISA 2015: Finland and Singapore

International Journal of Science Education, 2022
Finland and Singapore are both top-performing countries in international assessments such as PISA. Finland has been consistently one of the high-achievers regarding not only students’ literacy levels but also educational equity.
Ulas Ustun   +3 more
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Polarized climate change beliefs: No evidence for science literacy driving motivated reasoning in a U.S. national study.

American Psychologist, 2022
A substantial literature shows that public polarization over climate change in the U.S. is most pronounced among the science literate. A dominant explanation for this phenomenon is that science literacy amplifies motivated reasoning, the tendency to ...
H. Fischer, Mark Huff, Nadia Said
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Science Literacy

2020
It is frequently said that achieving science literacy is the main goal of science education. This is a laudable goal. A concise, mutually agreeable definition of science literacy has been an objective for many scientists, educators, and philosophers for the better part of the 20th century, and only recently has there been some degree of convergence in ...
Carl J. Wenning, Rebecca E. Vieyra
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Data science literacy: Toward a philosophy of accessible and adaptable data science skill development in public administration programs

Teaching Public Administration, 2021
Public administration is struggling to contend with a substantial shift in practice fueled by the accelerating adoption of information technology. New skills, competencies and pedagogies are required by the field to help overcome the data-skills gap.
Michael Overton, Stephen W. Kleinschmit
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Expressions of science literacy in online public discussions of animal experimentation

, 2021
Recent conceptualizations of science literacy, a key aim of contemporary science education, suggest defining it as a function of actual uses of science in daily life.
Esther Laslo, A. Baram‐Tsabari
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Scientific Literacy, Science Literacy, and Science Education

2014
It is our contention that the limited presence of Vision II in the NRC Framework, and the subsequent (inevitable) decreased emphasis in the new standards for U.S. science education, is an example (one of several) that suggests a trend toward withdrawal of professional commitment to Vision II of scientifi c literacy at this time.
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Introducing Nonscience Majors to Science Literacy via a Laboratory and Lecture Beer Brewing Course

, 2020
“Beer Brewing: Chemical and Biochemical Principles” is a 15 week laboratory and lecture course specifically designed for nonscience majors as an introduction to science literacy via structured labo...
B. Hamper, Joseph W. Meisel
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Global Science Literacy

2002
Preface. Section One: Foundations for Global Science Literacy 1. Evolution of Global Science Literacy as a curriculum construct V.J. Mayer, A. Tokuyama. 2. A case history of science and science education policies V.J. Mayer, R.S. Fortner. 3. The philosophy of science and Global Science Literacy V.J. Mayer, Yoshisuke Kumano.
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Linking Science and Literacy

Science Activities: Classroom Projects and Curriculum Ideas, 2011
ABSTRACT We successfully integrated science and language arts in a third-grade classroom. The students used “scientist's eyes” and “poet's eyes” to write original poetry. In addition, they created habitat posters about a swamp organism. Scoring guides for the habitat poems and posters are also included.
Donna M. Plummer   +2 more
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Critical Science Literacy

Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 2013
Increasing public knowledge of science is a widely recognized goal, but what that knowledge might consist of is rarely unpacked. Existing measures of science literacy tend to focus on textbook knowledge of science. Yet constructing a meaningful list of facts, even facts in application, is not only difficult but less than satisfying as an indicator of ...
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