. The position will oversee the science
literacy and citizen science programs of the Nebraska Canid Project (
swiftfox.unl.edu), a large collaborative research program housed at UNL.
The position will include: 1) managing a citizen science project aimed at
documenting endangered species on private
Dear Colleague,
As part of an NSF-funded study on science curriculum developed for an
undergraduate general education Biology course (IRB project #2011-10034-0),
I am conducting a survey of faculty beliefs about the critical science
literacy skills that students should master by taking
Wendee,
Check out the work of Jon Miller, and the reference below. He's been
one of the major researchers in this important field.
Miller, J.D. 2004. Public understanding of, and attitudes toward,
scientific research: what we know and what we need to know. Public
Understanding of Science 13:
I am finding a poll from 1988, an article in the NY Times
(http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE6DD143BF936A15753C1A96E
948260) that says that something like 21% believed the Sun revolved around
the Earth, and that 7% said they didn't know. But I can't seem to find
anything since
