Public Knowledge of and Attitudes to Science: Alternative Measures That May End the “Science War”:

摘要: Research on the public understanding of science has measured knowledge as acquaintance with scientific facts and methods attitudes evaluations societal consequences technology. The authors propose alternative concepts measures: workings institutions to nature science. viability, reliability, validity new measures are demonstrated British Bulgarian data. instrument consists twenty items takes ten fifteen minutes apply. Differences in representation reported between young elite, elite Bulgaria, natural social students, beginners advanced students Britain. use these will extend scope indicator used by European Commission National Science Foundation, help assessment socialization university training, may even c...