Elementary School Teachers' Usage of Web Supplement for the Science Teaching and Learning

과학 교수.학습 지도를 위한 초등교사의 웹 자료 활용 현황 조사

It takes elementary school teachers long time to search for instructional materials. They have also difficulties with choosing proper contents among much of the overlapping materials. Thus this study set out to investigate the current utilization of web materials by teachers, analyze the materials in the existing homepage, and identify useful materials for teachers. For those purposes, the investigator developed an evaluation framework to analyze science education materials in the existing homepage and analyzed materials using the framework. The materials had developed in the past failed to reflect the demands of teachers, who were the users, actively. Therefore, we took a survey to analyze their demands and reflected the results to establish a set of criteria to analyze materials. After dividing materials according to utilization and format, the external and internal elements of materials were assessed according to the evaluation items. If they systematically select many teaching and learning materials developed for elementary science and make efforts to vitalize their educational usage by sorting out overlapping materials and developing new needed ones, they will be able to save a huge amount of expenses and maximize the efficiency as educational materials.