Latest ArticlesWith rapid development of popular science voluntary service, promoting college students' capacity has become a research issue. Based on the capacity building theory and the questionnaires of 139 college student volunteers of science popularization, the article firstly processed the data using Factor Analysis Method, and then took empirical analysis on the influencial factors of college student volunteers' capacity promotion in science popularization using Multiple Regression Model. The results show that college management, capacity awareness, social environment, process management have significant effects on college student volunteers' capacity promotion in science popularization. In order to promote college student volunteers' capacity, capacity awareness should be cultivated as the foundation, institution capacity building, including college management and process management should be strengthened as the platform, and social environmental capacity-building should be enhanced as a guarantee.
Visibility of a television program has a close relationship with the television program featuress. Mythbusters is a series of science experiment television programs of the United States Discovery Channel and it is fun to watch. Mythbusters has a wide range of audiences all over the world. In this paper, through the analysis of program characteristics of Mythbusters, some good enlightenment can be obtained for similar science television programs in China.
To develop public attitude toward science in the questionnaire. Supported by ABC theory of attitude, the content of domestic and foreign scholar's research, it analyzed attitude evaluation indicators, and formed a 25 item of the initial questionnaire. A randomly sample of 905 subjects who are in Hefei, Wuhu, Lu'an. Through the questionnaire item analysis and exploratory factor analysis from 25 items in the initial questionnaire, it selected 17 items to form a formal questionnaire, and through confirmatory factor analysis we verified its theoretical mode. Overall, alpha coefficient of the subscale and total scale is between 0.715-0.862, each subscale scores and total scores were significantly correlated (p<0.01). The questionnaire has good validity and is a useful tool to measure public attitude toward science.
As the core theory of the HIPST project of the EU, Discipline-culture displays it's stable structure: Nucleus- Body-Periphery. Based on the structure model, the nature and the progress of science have been elaborated. When the cultural model is applied to science education, several problems have been explained availably, such as, the education of the nature of science, how to select and organize the contents of science to teach, how to learn and study more efficiency, and etc. Now, some teaching cases have been developed and used throughout the EU, aimed to improve students' scientific Literacy and enhance the public understanding of science.
To explore the causes of neglect of science popularization writing, it used the questionnaire (including attitudes in colleges and universities towards science popularization writing) to investigate 126 teachers in 17 departments of Henan University randomly and a semi-structured interview of some teachers. Results show: (1) most of the teachers fully affirmed social public welfare of science popularization work, and thought that university teachers had the duty to do it, but they had different opinions and attitudes towards the resistance of science popularization work; most of the teachers thought that countries should make some policies to encourage college teachers to participate in; (2) college teachers had a conservative attitude toward science popularization writing, lacking understanding of scientific concepts, in addition, the main reason was internal, including social contribution, interests, and a sense of accomplishment.
No. 86 Xueyuan South Road, Haidian District, Beijing
010-62199257
qkjq@cast.org.cn
Copyright © 2025 China Association for Science and Technology. All rights reserved. For all open access content, the relevant licensing terms apply.
Sponsored by the Office of the Leading Group for Cybersecurity and Informatization of CAST, and supported by Science and Technology Review Publishing House
