The set of 12 questions from the new Pew Research Center survey is, of course, only a small fraction of the possible topics and approaches to measuring public knowledge and understanding about science ...

Teachers must be able to combine several important kinds of knowledge in order to successfully implement classroom science instruction for concept learning. These include knowledge of science content, ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. Science is a way of knowing about the world. At once a process, a product, and an ...

What is the human psyche and what is its relationship to the science of psychology? Is the human psyche a scientific construct? Can it be “reduced” to the brain? UTOK, the Unified Theory of Knowledge ...

Some 1,200 middle school and high school students competed in the 2026 Orange County Regional Science Olympiad this weekend, hosted at UC Irvine.

What is “MENS” knowledge? It stands for modernist empirical natural science. It is also, of course, a play on words that references the fact that, as a system of justification, modern empirical ...

Suggested Citation: "3 Science Literacy in Society and the World." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. Science Literacy: Concepts ...