The Features of the Observation and the Hypothetical Faults Generated by Pre-service Elementary Teachers on Candlelight Inquiry Tasks - Focusing on Usage of the Participants' Prior Knowledge -

양초 연소 탐구 과제 상황에서 초등 예비교사가 생성한 관찰 및 가설의 오류 특성 - 학습자의 선행 지식의 활용을 중심으로 -

The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between pre-service elementary teacher's prior knowledge and processes of observations and hypotheses generation via analysis of descriptive fault patterns during observation, problem generation and hypotheses generation processes. For the purpose of this study, thirty-four undergraduate students were participated and descriptions of participants' responds were analyzed. As the result, four patterns of descriptive fault on the process of generating hypothesis were classified; 1) descriptive fault from the causalities, 2) descriptive fault from repetition of observational facts, 3) descriptive fault from the priority of prior knowledge, and 4) descriptive fault from negation of the observational facts. From the result, the researcher was able to explore the faults caused by pre-service elementary students' prior knowledge through the observational descriptive analysis with hypothetical descriptive analysis.