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Structural Relationship between PCK, Grit, and Teaching Efficacy Perceived by Elementary School Science Teachers

초등학교 과학 교사가 인식하는 PCK, 그릿, 교수 효능감 사이의 구조적 관계

  • Received : 2023.08.07
  • Accepted : 2023.08.21
  • Published : 2023.08.30
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Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate the structural relationship between pedagogical content knowledge (PCK), grit, and teaching efficacy perceived by elementary school science teachers. Based on the results of the literature review, PCK was divided into knowledge domain and enactment domain, and these two domains were set as exogenous latent variables to investigate the structural relationship between PCK and teaching efficacy. In addition, teachers' grit was added to the structural equation model as an exogenous latent variable to investigate the effect of teachers' knowledge, enactment, and grit on teaching efficacy. Upon confirming the structural relationship between PCK and teaching efficacy, it was found that a high correlation between knowledge and enactment, and that knowledge had a greater effect on teaching efficacy than enactment. Furthermore, upon confirming the structural relationship between PCK, grit, and teaching efficacy, both knowledge and grit were found to have a statistically significant effect on teaching efficacy, while the relationship between enactment and teaching efficacy was not statistically significant. Based on the results of these studies, we discussed ways to strengthen teacher expertise and teaching efficacy in elementary school science classes and the meaning of grit in the field of teacher expertise.

이 연구에서는 초등학교 과학 수업에서 교사의 PCK, 그릿, 교수 효능감 사이의 구조적 관계를 확인하고자 하였다. 문헌 분석 결과에 기초하여 PCK를 수업 지식 영역과 수업 실행 영역으로 구분하고, 이들 두 가지 영역을 외생잠재변수로 설정하여 PCK와 교수 효능감 사이의 구조적 연관성을 확인하였다. 또한, 구조방정식 모형에 교사의 그릿을 외생잠재변수로 추가하여 수업 지식, 수업 실행, 그릿이 교수 효능감에 미치는 영향을 조사하였다. PCK와 교수 효능감 사이의 구조적 관계를 확인한 결과, 수업 지식과 수업 실행 사이에 높은 상관관계가 나타났으며, 수업 지식은 수업 실행과 비교하여 교수 효능감에 더 큰 영향을 미치고 있었다. PCK, 그릿, 교수 효능감 사이의 구조적 관계를 확인한 결과, 수업 지식과 그릿은 모두 교수 효능감에 통계적으로 유의한 영향을 미치고 있지만, 수업 실행과 교수 효능감 사이의 관계는 통계적으로 유의하지 않은 것으로 나타났다. 이러한 연구 결과를 토대로 초등학교 과학 수업에서 교사 전문성과 교수 효능감을 강화하는 방안과 교사 전문성 영역에서 그릿이 갖는 의미에 대해 논의하였다.

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