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Scientific Literacy
By : Muhammad Asyraf Bin Abdul Rahman
P-PM0243/13
What?
• According to the United States National Centre for Education Statistics ;
"scientific literacy is the knowledge and understanding of scientific concepts and processes required for personal decision making, participation in civic and cultural affairs, and economic productivity"
• Project 2061 in their seminal volume, Science for all Americans (AAAS, 1989) describe scientific literacy as ;
“the understandings and habits of mind they need to become compassionate human beings able to think for themselves and to face life head on. Also equip them participate with fellow citizens in building and protecting a society that is open, decent and vital”.
• England’s Beyond 2000 : Science Education for the future (Millar & Osborne,1998) advocate that all citizens need a basic level of scientific literacy to make informed choices and decisions about issues and problems that occur daily.
Issues and Problems
Occur +Action as
person
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Characteristics ;
A scientifically literate person is defined as one who has the capacity to:
• understand experiment and reasoning as well as basic scientific facts and their meaning
• ask, find, or determine answers to questions derived from curiosity about everyday experiences
• describe, explain, and predict natural phenomena• identify scientific issues underlying national and local decisions and
express positions that are scientifically and technologically informed• evaluate the quality of scientific information on the basis of its source
and the methods used to generate it• pose and evaluate arguments based on evidence and to apply
conclusions from such arguments appropriately
Scientific Literacy : Malaysia perspective?
Results
Items Program for International
Student Assesment (PISA)Trends in International
Mathematics and Science
Study (TIMSS)
Type of questions :
Response or multiple question from one stem.
Mainly multiple choice questions
Focus : Knowledge, value and students able to do science within reasonable and appropriate
personal, social and global context.
Reproduction of facts and solving problems using
algorithms.
Targeted students :
Assesment on 15 years old students. Assesment on standard four and form two students.
Problems?
Local Authority Elections
Global Context
Societal Context
Personal Context
Content Knowledge Habits of Mind
Science as human endeavor
Character and Values
Metacognition and Self-direction
5 Dimension of scientific literacy for the 21st century
Dimensions
Descriptive Current Scientific Literacy
Content Knowledge
- Integrated, context-based scientific understanding of
core science content.
- Understanding of basic ideas and vocabulary.
Habits of Mind
-Critically examine issues, finding and using
resources, apply core ideas and argue based on
sufficient evidence to solve complex personal,
community and global problems
- Inquiry Skills
Character and Values
- Respect human life and
compassion for other human beings throughout globe.
- Attitude and Motivation
Science as Human Endeavor
-Understanding of collaborative and
interdisciplinary nature of science and relationship between science and society.
- Isolation nature of science.
Metacognition and Self-Direction
-Explicit cognitive to reflect on certain condition, seek and use knowledge wisely.
-Move by their own initiatives
-Not a focus for
scientific literacy
JAPAN
Scientific Literacy is about being able to function in contemporary society in a positive
way.
As educators, we should educating students
to see science everywhere.
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