School-based Curriculum Theory And Practice Research Based On The Improvement Of Students' Biological Scientic Literacy

This thesis is aimed at researching the strategies of how to improve students' biology scientific literacy, according to the definition of scientific literacy, scientific literacy of biology and school-based curriculum development.It is vital to improve every students' scientific literacy of biology, based in the Senior High Shool Biology Education Standards, which is promulgated by Ministry of Education. The improvement of student's scientific literacy of biology chiefly from National Curriculum, and that is what most biology teachers work for. In this thesis, we focus on the relationship between professional science literacy and school-based curriculum. We also have been exploring the way of improving students' scientific literacy in optional courses in hopes of finding scientific literacy measurement and evaluation reasonable and feasible. In this thesis we used a literature review questionnaire and action research.A review of the history of scientific literacy and school-based curriculum development is in Chapter 1 and Chapter 2. It also shows the main contents of biology scientific literacy and the advantages of school-based curriculum used in biology scientific literacy improvement.Chapter 3 to Chapter 5 are processes in practice. Thanks to Shanghai JianPing High School, the author had offered optional course called Life Science in Daily Life (L.S.D.L.for short) since September 2005. We used action research on the efficiency and possibility of taking advantage of school-based curriculum to improve students' scientific literacy of biology. Previous surveys, teaching materials, curriculum performance, and curriculum evaluation are contained in this part. During the practice, the role of the teacher played in the curriculum performance became clear. Furthermore, three cases of Life Science in Daily Life are available. Some seatwork helped to know students better.Quantitative research (questionnaires and tests) and qualitative research (group discussion and role-playing records) are both used to make biology scientific literacy measurement more reasonable. We sent out the questionnaires to the students before and after the course to know the effectivity of the school-based curriculum Life Science in Daily Life.It is the thesis of this paper that, instead of defining scientific literacy in four terms of specificity, Science Technology and Society (STS) should be contained in...