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A Survey of Science Literacy Level for Senior High School Students in Taiwan

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Business, Economics, Financial Sciences, and Management

Part of the book series: Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing ((AINSC,volume 143))

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The main purpose of the study was to explore the literacy of environmental science level for senior high school student in Taiwan. This study received 90.87 % return rate from the students. After the process of data analysis, the following results were obtained: (1) On the whole, senior high school students are only above average in scientific literacy. (2) Senior high school students have lower level cognition on the science applications.(3) Senior high school students have higher level cognition on the science ethics. (4) The public senior high school students generally have higher standard of scientific literacy than the private senior high school students. (5) Female senior high school students tend (tended) to pay attention to the science ethics, while the male high school students tend(tended) to have higher level cognition on the science applications. (6) The senior high school students whose parents have higher education have higher standard of scientific literacy. (7) The senior high school students whose parents have specialized jobs have higher standard of scientific literacy.

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    Chao Chih-Yang, Yang Shih-Chun, Yen Chia-Sung & Lin Yong Shun

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Chih-Yang, C., Shih-Chun, Y., Chia-Sung, Y., Shun, L.Y. (2012). A Survey of Science Literacy Level for Senior High School Students in Taiwan. In: Zhu, M. (eds) Business, Economics, Financial Sciences, and Management. Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, vol 143. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27966-9_7

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