Scientific Online Literacy. Concept Development and Application

More and more people look for information about science on the internet. The ability to successfully find and understand scientific information on the internet provides a valuable resource to all citizens. The projects develops the concept of Scientific Online Literacy to assess and measure a multidimensional skillset useful to find this information. It will also develop and validate a survey instrument to measure people’s scientific online literacy.

Runtime: 2017-2019

Funding: UZH Forschungs­kredit “Candoc”

Participants: Tobias Füchslin (UZH, Fellow)

Total Sum: 110,000 CHF