Abstract
To promote Science & Technology, it is indispensable to improve interests and understandings of S&T in the general public. In the analysis especially focused on Scientific Literacy of "Survey of Public Attitudes Toward and Understanding of Science and Technology in 2001", the following become clear. About the understanding of basic scientific concept, it is clarified that Japan has a distinctive tendency compared with the U.S. and European countries by the principal component analysis. "Civic Scientific Literacy (CSL)" composed of basic scientific constructs and the process of scientific inquiry is improved from 1991 survey and becomes on a level with the U.S. 1995 survey. The comparison "Attentive Public of S&T" with CSL shows that to improve CSL doesn't necessarily increase public attentiveness of S&T. From these results, we propose some quantitative measurement methods of Scientific Literacy.
