Sentences with phrase «public science literacy»

These are long term partnerships with high aims of encouraging public science literacy and progress into science careers by young people.

The need for a better public science literacy measure was the primary message of the National Academy Report, which concluded that the NSF Science Indicators battery — the traditional measure — is too easy and lacks sufficient connection to critical reasoning.

Through her work at AAAS, Malcom works to increase access to education and careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics and to enhance public science literacy.

That report reviewed science education at the primary and secondary levels, and established a vision for public science literacy in Canada.

But what is new and potential really important about the Pew Report is the measure that it has constructed to measure public science literacy.