Scientific Literacy and Social Transformation

Integration of Information and Scientific Literacy: Promoting Literacy in Undergraduates

The Association of College and Research Libraries recommends incorporating information literacy (IL) skills across university and college curricula, for the goal of developing information literate graduates. Congruent with this goal, the Departments of Biological Sciences and Information Science developed an integrated IL and scientific literacy (SL) exercise for use in a first-year biology cou...

Symposium on scientific literacy: Introduction.

Open access and civic scientific information literacy

Introduction: We examine how residents/citizens of The Netherlands perceive Open Access to acquire preliminary insight into the role it might play in cultivating civic scientific literacy. Open Access refers to scientific/scholarly research literature available on the Web to scholars and the general public in free online journals and institutional repositories. Method: Four focus group sessions...

Mathematical and Scientific Literacy Around The World

PISA, the OECD’s international program of assessment of reading, scientific and mathematical literacy, aims to assess the knowledge and skills that students have acquired at school and their ability to use them in everyday tasks and challenges. It also uses questionnaires to gather data on students’ attitudes to learning and the conditions of schooling. Since 2000, PISA has tested the scientifi...

Critical Literacy: Conflicts, Challenges, Adaptations and Transformation?

This case study explored how the involvement of two ESL instructors in critical literacy research, including master’s thesis, made them experience different challenges, ideological conflicts and successes. One of them was teaching ESL in secondary classes when she carried out her thesis about critical literacy. She also cooperated with the researcher in a critical literacy study after she had f...