从科学传播看公众科学素养调查诸方式

在广义上的科普发展到科学传播的阶段,对公众需要了解什么、对不同群体的不同需要都更加关注了,从而对公众科学素养的了解也经历着一个从定性研究到定量调查再到定量与定性相结合、多种方式齐头并进的认识和实践过程。从科学传播的三个维度——内容、方式、对象来看,对公众科学素养的调查研究都需要定量与定性结合的方式。至于如何结合,则应在科学传播的实践中寻找具体路径。

A Research on the Methods of the Investigation of Civic Scientific Literacy from Science Communication

While the understanding of science popularization varies to science communication, the understanding of Civil Scientific Literacy varies from qualitative researches, via quantitative researches, to the conjunction of qualitative and quantitative researches, which is accommodated to the three dimensions of science cmmunication contents, methods, and objects. It is imperative that we should seek specific ways of conjunction in the practice of science communication.