Abstract

The purpose of this research is to compare the differences in scientific literacy among Taiwan’s different school-system students. The research samples are Taiwan students who attended PISA 2006, PISA 2009, and PISA 2012, using the database of PISA 2006, PISA 2009 and PISA 2012 to run the secondary data analysis. And carried out by means of descriptive statistics, one-way ANOVA and two-way ANOVA. According to the research result of PISA 2006, PISA 2009, and PISA 2012 data, students of different school levels show significant differences. Senior high school students perform better than students from other school system while the three factors affect science literacy includes individual, family and school. First, in individual aspect, gender shows significant difference, but not certain in particular school system. Second, in family aspect: 1.The more abundant family resources students can have, the better scientific literacy students of different school system can perform. 2.The students use Mandarin at home perform better in scientific literacy than others of different school system. 3.The higher educational achievement their parents have, the better performance of scientific literacy students of different school system can achieve. But in PISA 2012, it shows no differences. Besides, in school aspect: 1.Students of different school system show differences from different school scales. 2.The more expectations that parents have on schools, the better scientific literacy students of different school system can perform. At last, according to the research results, proposing some suggestions for parents, education presence and further studies.

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