Abstract：Immense amounts of studies have been carried out worldwide ever since the 1980s.With the introduction of Miller s Framework about scientific literacy,CAST has conducted a series of surveys on civic scientific literacy nationwide,which promoted the research work about civic scientific literacy in China.Research has been developing along with continuous disputes concerning various aspects,such as the definition of civic scientific literacy and the measurement of it.The Outline of the National Scheme for Scientific Literacy issued by the State Council in 2006 has given an official definition about civic scientific literacy in China,thus initiated large scale of construction work of civic scientific literacy under the pattern of grand collaboration and cooperation by government departments.On the two paths of theoretical and practical research on promoting scientific literacy in China,large amount of exploratory research has been done towards measuring the level of civic scientific literacy.
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