NTNU Developed the Scientific Accomplishment Chart in Media
NTNU Science Education center director Chang Chun-yen and his research team combined the scientific nouns mostly appeared in the textbooks and the news to develop the scientific accomplishment chart. The result showed that the freshman in senior high school had better accomplishment than university students. The seventh grade accomplishment was acceptable.
Most of the jobs were not related to the science. But there were a lot of related issues in our daily life. For example, the energy crisis, global environmental change, stem cells research, gene screen, were all related to science. To understand the science reports in the magazine and to make the right judge or ask for the expert’s help was the basic ability a person should have.
Professor Chang Chun-yen research result SLIM had published on the famous international periodical “Public Understanding of Science” and “Computers & Education”. SLIM tested students on whether if they could understand the complicated science concept in the daily media or not. The targets were 1034 students of seventh grade, tenth grade, and university students. The test included the personal detail database. The research showed that the university students weren’t perform as well as the high school students. The team assumed that some of the students did not study in the science related department and might have forgotten the science taught in high school.
The pass studied showed that the major science knowledge was from the textbooks in school. After graduated, the knowledge would only come from media. Professor Chang indicated that the science education should be combined with daily life, everyone should have the basic concept. He suggested the future science textbook could combine the media science information and daily life science.