PMID- 27047612
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
DCOM- 20160406
LR  - 20200930
IS  - 1935-7877 (Print)
IS  - 1935-7885 (Electronic)
IS  - 1935-7877 (Linking)
VI  - 17
IP  - 1
DP  - 2016 Mar
TI  - Using a Concept Inventory to Assess the Reasoning Component of Citizen-Level 
      Science Literacy: Results from a 17,000-Student Study.
PG  - 143-55
LID - 10.1128/jmbe.v17i1.1036 [doi]
AB  - After articulating 12 concepts for the reasoning component of citizen-level 
      science literacy and restating these as assessable student learning outcomes 
      (SLOs), we developed a valid and reliable assessment instrument for addressing 
      the outcomes with a brief 25-item science literacy concept inventory (SLCI). In 
      this paper, we report the results that we obtained from assessing the 
      citizen-level science literacy of 17,382 undergraduate students, 149 graduate 
      students, and 181 professors. We address only findings at or above the 99.9% 
      confidence level. We found that general education (GE) science courses do not 
      significantly advance understanding of science as a way of knowing. However, the 
      understanding of science's way of knowing does increase through academic ranks, 
      indicating that the extended overall academic experience better accounts for 
      increasing such thinking capacity than do science courses alone. Higher mean 
      institutional SLCI scores correlate closely with increased institutional 
      selectivity, as measured by the institutions' higher mean SAT and ACT scores. 
      Socioeconomic factors of a) first-generation student, b) English as a native 
      language, and c) interest in commitment to a science major are unequally 
      distributed across ethnic groups. These factors proved powerful in accounting for 
      the variations in SLCI scores across ethnicities and genders.
FAU - Nuhfer, Edward B
AU  - Nuhfer EB
AD  - Retired Professor of Geology and Director of Faculty Development & Assessment, 
      Niwot, CO 80503.
FAU - Cogan, Christopher B
AU  - Cogan CB
AD  - Independent Consultant, Environmental Science, Geography, and Geographic 
      Information Systems, Camarillo, CA 93012.
FAU - Kloock, Carl
AU  - Kloock C
AD  - Department of Biology, California State University Bakersfield, Bakersfield, CA 
      93311.
FAU - Wood, Gregory G
AU  - Wood GG
AD  - Department of Physics, California State University Channel Islands, Camarillo CA 
      93012.
FAU - Goodman, Anya
AU  - Goodman A
AD  - Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, California Polytechnic State 
      University, San Luis Obispo, CA 93407.
FAU - Delgado, Natalie Zayas
AU  - Delgado NZ
AD  - Department of Science & Environmental Policy, California State University 
      Monterey Bay, Seaside, CA 93955.
FAU - Wheeler, Christopher W
AU  - Wheeler CW
AD  - Geology Program, California State University Channel Islands, Camarillo, CA 
      93012.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20160301
PL  - United States
TA  - J Microbiol Biol Educ
JT  - Journal of microbiology & biology education
JID - 101543341
PMC - PMC4798799
EDAT- 2016/04/06 06:00
MHDA- 2016/04/06 06:01
PMCR- 2016/03/01
CRDT- 2016/04/06 06:00
PHST- 2016/04/06 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2016/04/06 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2016/04/06 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2016/03/01 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - jmbe-17-140 [pii]
AID - 10.1128/jmbe.v17i1.1036 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - J Microbiol Biol Educ. 2016 Mar 1;17(1):143-55. doi: 10.1128/jmbe.v17i1.1036. 
      eCollection 2016 Mar.