Tianjin Three Fifth-grade Pupils Scientific Literacy Empirical Research

As the times advances, the citizen's scientific literacy becomes the basic factor for social progress. It is the key for country's prosperity and the base for country's continuous development. The students are the hope for country's future, so the countries all over the world pay more attention to the students' scientific literacy. In China's curriculum reform, the science, as an independent subject, is experiencing a transform aiming at the scientific literacy cultivation. However, there is not a clear knowledge of the advantages and disadvantages of comprehensive science subject during practicing because of the inadequacy in theory and practice.There are four chapters in this paper which are the preface, the research summary of scientific literacy, the research of grade3 and grade5 pupils' scientific literacy in Tianjin, the conclusion and suggestion. The first chapter elaborates the reason and outline of research. The second chapter reviews the research of scientific literacy in the world and introduces the testing framework of PISA,TIMSS and NAEP. The third chapter designs Basic Competency Assessments (Science) being suitable for pupils' in Tianjin on the base of considering the testing framework and our country's Curriculum Standard. The forth chapter analyzes the scientific testing results of grade3 and grade5 pupils in Tianjin, and proposes a few solutions, meanwhile, this chapter brings forward some opinions for the pupils' scientific literacy training of China in the future.