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Development and Implementation of the History of Science and Technology Program for Understanding of Technical High School Students about the Nature of Science

특성화고 학생들의 과학의 본성(NOS) 이해를 위한 과학기술사 수업 프로그램의 개발 및 적용

  • Received : 2017.02.03
  • Accepted : 2017.04.03
  • Published : 2017.04.30
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Abstract

The purpose of this study was to develop a program for the history of science and technology in order for the technical high school students to understand the nature of science (NOS). The program was composed of the six topics based on the textbooks such as convergence science and physics I, and was taught to 290 10th graders at a technical high school located in the metropolitan area. The questionnaire about NOS was asked the students before and after the instruction, so as to investigate the effect of the program on improving their understandings of NOS. The analysis followed t-test and ANOVA using SPSS 23.0 for Windows program. The questionnaire based on the conceptual framework of the four themes of the NOS (Lee, 2014). The research findings were as follows. First, the program was effective in improving their understanding of NOS since the t-test result was significant statistically for the overall domains of NOS (p<.01). Second, there was no significant gender differences in the understanding of NOS among technical high school students (p<.05), neither did their majors (p<.05). Third, all domains in NOS were statistically correlated (p<.01), and in a particular, each domain was consistently correlated with the aspect of the nature of the interactions among science, technology, and society. Hence, the further studies should be conducted to examine how the history of science and technology effects the understanding of the NOS and how the domains in NOS affected each other.

본 연구는 공업계열 특성화고 학생들을 위한 과학기술사 수업 프로그램을 개발하고 적용함으로써 과학의 본성에 대한 이해에 미치는 교육적 효과를 조사하였다. 프로그램은 고등학교 융합 과학 및 물리 I의 교육과정을 바탕으로 6개의 과학기술사 주제로 개발되었으며, 경기도에 위치한 공업계열 특성화고 학생 290명을 대상으로 적용되었다. 본 연구의 방법은 단일 그룹 사전-사후 검사로 설계되었으며. 학생들의 과학의 본성에 대한 이해를 조사하고자 프로그램 적용 전후에 설문을 실시하여 그 검사 결과를 SPSS 23을 이용하여 통계 분석을 실시하였다. 과학의 본성에 대한 설문도구는 선행연구에서 개발된 4가지 영역의 과학의 본성 개념 틀(Lee, 2014)을 수정 보완하여 사용하였다. 본 연구의 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 공업계열 특성화고 학생들의 과학의 본성에 이해에 대한 사전 사후 비교 결과, 과학기술사 수업 프로그램이 학생들의 이해에 효과가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, 과학기술사 수업 프로그램의 효과는 특성화고 학생들의 성별 및 전공에 따른 차이는 없는 것으로 나타났다. 셋째, 과학의 본성 4가지 영역간의 상관관계 분석에 의하면, 4가지 영역들은 모두 상호 높은 상관관계가 있는 것으로 나타났으며, 특히 각 개별 영역들은 모두 과학과 기술, 그리고 사회와의 상호작용에 대한 과학의 본성 측면과 상관관계가 있는 것이 발견되었다. 한편, 과학기술사 수업 프로그램은 구체적으로 어떻게 학생들의 과학의 본성에 대한 이해에 효과가 있는지에 대한 후속 연구가 필요하다.

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