“…Among the 18 studies that adopted the TBSL and its versions-TACB, TACB-S, TACB-R, and adapted -, Camargo et al (2011), Gresczysczyn et al (2018), Laugksch and Spargo (1996a), Lima and Garcia (2015), Oliveira and Silva-Forsberg (2012), Rivas et al (2017), Vizzotto andDel Pino (2020a, 2020b), and Vizzotto and Mackedanz (2018) revealed that most of the students assessed are scientifically literate. The studies of Sousa (2019a, 2019b), Laugksch and Spargo (1999), Lima and Garcia (2013), Nascimento-Schulze (2006), Vizzotto (2019), and Vizzotto et al (2020, on the other hand, revealed that the majority of the students assessed did not reach the minimum number of hits required to be considered scientifically literate.…”