PISA2025 Scientific Identity Assessment Drives High Quality Development of Science Education
Helping students establish a sense of identity and belonging to science and then prompting stu-dents to"think like a scientist"has become the core objective of the high-quality development of science edu-cation in countries all over the world,but there is no consensus in the academic community on the cultivation and assessment of"sense of identity".The newly released PISA2025 Science Literacy Assessment Framework derives the dimension of"scientific identity"on the basis of"scientific attitude",aiming at highlighting students'sense of identity and sense of belonging to science,which provides a reference for the high quality of science education in China.The study has reviewed in detail the historical evolution of the concepts and assessment di-mensions of science literacy in the assessment frameworks of PISA2006,PISA2015 and PISA2025,clarified the connotation and characteristics of scientific identity in science contexts,science knowledge and science compe-tence,and clarified the strategic significance of scientific identity in promoting the sustained and high-quality de-velopment of science education.Combining"scientific identity"and the development demands of science educa-tion in China,the study puts forward the following suggestions:to realize the change of assessment concepts to scientific identity based on scientific attitudes;to create scientific contexts to promote the practical activities of science;to implement assessment and reflection to drive the improvement and refinement of the whole pro-cess of scientific inquiry;and to cultivate students'ability to criticize information and enable them to distin-guish falsehood while preserving truth in scientific information.