University education program on citizen literacy for promoting science and technology governance

• Project/Area Number: 15K12381
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Science education
• Research Institution: Kobe University
• Principal Investigator: Sakamoto Miki 神戸大学, 人間発達環境学研究科, 教授 (90293729)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 山口 悦司 神戸大学, 人間発達環境学研究科, 准教授 (00324898) ; 伊藤 真之 神戸大学, 人間発達環境学研究科, 教授 (40213087)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2017)
• Budget Amount: ¥3,640,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥840,000); Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000); Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
• Keywords: socioscientific issue / 科学リテラシー / 科学教育 / socioscientific issues / 科学技術ガバナンス

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Our research result on the teaching method was clarification the specific contents of scientific literacy for future citizens responsible for science and technology governance and to propose teaching methods and a university education program for individual literacy. Our research result regarding the evaluation method was the development of a measurement task and an evaluation rubric for scientific literacy. In this research, we focused on scientific literacy to create solutions to socioscientific issues. We chose socioscientific issues related to genetic medical technology and created a Japanese version of the measurement task for scientific literacy, the analysis framework, and the evaluation rubric. We also conducted surveys of Japanese university students to investigate their achievement of such scientific literacy. Having analyzed the survey results, we revised and completed the evaluation rubric. The survey results provided suggestions on socioscientific issues-based instruction.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] 遺伝子医療技術を扱う科学技術の社会問題に対するアーギュメントの分析 (2016)
  • Author(s): 坂本美紀・山口悦司・稲垣成哲
  • Journal Title: 日本科学教育学会研究会研究報告 Volume: 31 Pages: 31-36
  • NAID: 130006655975
  • Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Presentation] 遺伝子医療技術を扱うジレンマ課題に対する大学生の論述 (2017)
  • Author(s): 坂本美紀・山口悦司
  • Organizer: 日本発達心理学会第28回大会
  • Place of Presentation: 広島国際会議場ほか（広島県広島市）
  • Year and Date: 2017-03-25
• [Presentation] Informal reasoning for socio-scientific issues concerning dilemmas faced by genetic medical technologies. (2017)
  • Author(s): Sakamoto,M. & Yamaguchi,E.
  • Organizer: ESERA 2017 Conference
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] 遺伝子医療技術の社会問題に対する大学生のアーギュメントと知識の関係 (2017)
  • Author(s): 坂本美紀・山口悦司・山本智一
  • Organizer: 日本科学教育学会第41回年会
• [Presentation] 科学技術の社会問題に対する大学生の意志決定と知識活用：遺伝子医療技術を事例として (2017)
  • Author(s): 坂本美紀・山口悦司
  • Organizer: 日本教育心理学会第59回総会
• [Presentation] Epistemic practice to improve elementary students’ construction of scientific arguments: A case analysis of the effects caused by commenting on peers’ arguments using epistemic criteria. (2016)
  • Author(s): Miki Sakamoto,M. & Yamaguchi,E.
  • Organizer: the 31th International Congress of Psychology
  • Place of Presentation: パシフィコ横浜（神奈川県横浜市）
  • Year and Date: 2016-07-24
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Epistemic practice to improve elementary students’ construction of scientific arguments: A case analysis of the effects caused by commenting on peers’ arguments using epistemic criteria. (2016)
  • Author(s): Sakamoto, M., & Yamaguchi, E.
  • Organizer: the 31st International Congress of Psychology
  • Place of Presentation: パシフィコ横浜（神奈川県・横浜市）
  • Year and Date: 2016-07-24
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Intervention Study on Theory-Inspired Questions as an Epistemic Activity in Science. (2015)
  • Author(s): Sakamoto, M., Yamaguchi, E., Nakashin, S., Yamamoto, T., Murayama, I., Kamiyama, S., Muratsu, K., & Inagaki, S.
  • Organizer: 16th Biennial EARLI Conference for Research in Learning and Instruction.
  • Place of Presentation: Limassol (Cyprus)
  • Year and Date: 2015-08-25
  • Int'l Joint Research