Author(s)

Junxia Zhu ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Shaanxi Public Scientific Literacy and College Students' Innovation and Entrepreneurship Science and Technology Innovation Research Center, Shaanxi International Business College, Xi 'an, 71200, China

Corresponding Author

Junxia Zhu

ABSTRACT

This paper divides scientific literacy into three dimensions: Scientific knowledge, scientific ability and scientific spirit, and then uses the questionnaire survey data to analyze the influence of college students' participation degree of competition, participation motivation of competition, participation atmosphere of competition and condition guarantee of competition on scientific literacy. The study found that college students' participation degree of competition has a significant positive impact on scientific knowledge, scientific ability and scientific spirit; Participation motivation of competition has no significant impact on the scientific literacy of each dimension; Participation atmosphere of competition has a significant positive impact on scientific knowledge and scientific spirit; The condition guarantee of competition has a significant positive impact on scientific knowledge and scientific ability. Finally, this paper puts forward targeted policy recommendations.

KEYWORDS

Scientific knowledge, scientific ability, scientific spirit, science and technology competition

CITE THIS PAPER

Junxia Zhu, An Empirical Analysis of Science and Technology Competition and College Students' Scientific Literacy. Adult and Higher Education (2022) Vol. 4: 70-77. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/aduhe.2022.040712.

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