• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.221-239
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• 2009

The purpose of this study was to explore how 9th grade students' understanding of the nature of science developed during a one-year implementation of NOS learning materials. The lessons were a combination of short readings in episodes in the history of science with accompaning response booklets consisting of illustrations and questions. The lessons were designed to be 45 minutes in length and were implemented over ten months of the school term. Data on students' understanding as it developed during the implementation were obtained from test items, questionnaires, and students' journal. Findings indicate that students showed changes in their understanding of the nature of science towards modern views of the nature of science. However, they showed understanding of tentativeness of scientific knowledge, they also showed belief of absoluteness of scientific knowledge.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.87-93
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• 2024

The purpose of this study is to analyze whether library field study expands students' understanding of their knowledge acquired in school. For this purpose, six major areas of LIS(Library and Information Science) and 29 sub-major knowledge were derived, and 19 fourth-year undergraduate students were surveyed before and after field study. The analysis showed that there was a difference in comprehension between the pre- and post-tests in the major areas where the students had direct practice, but there was no significant relationship between field study using Fisher's exact test. In the future, it is necessary to conduct a follow-up study with a long-term practice and a large number of students, and this study will be a step towards discovering the possibility that field study can make a positive contribution to the understanding of knowledge.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.487-497
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• 2010

The purpose of this study was to investigate how a teaching approach influences student's ability of classification at the brain level. Twenty four healthy and right-handed college students participated in this study, which investigated a brain plasticity associated with category-generation and -understanding in classification learning. The participants were divided into one of two groups, one each for category-generation and -understanding learning programs, which were composed of twelve topics taught over a twelve-week period. To measure the change in student competence and brain activations, a paper and pencil test and an fMRI scanning session were administered before and after the training programs. Unlike the understanding group, the generation group showed significant changes in classification ability quotients and learning-related brain activations (cerebral cortex and basal ganglia were increased and prefrontal cortex and parahippocampal gyrus were decreased). Nevertheless, the understanding group showed an increased activation in the cerebral cortex and parahippocampal gyrus and a decreased activation in the right prefrontal cortex and cerebellum. Therefore, it can be concluded that teaching styles could influence students' brain activation patterns and classification ability. The results might also be used to develop a brain-compatible science education curriculum.

• Journal of the Korean School Mathematics Society
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.327-348
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• 2021

This study examines the effects of mathematics learning mentoring activities on mathematical knowledge for teaching (MKT) of pre-service mathematics teachers. We choose six pre-service mathematics teachers in the department of mathematics education at M University. The pre-service mathematics teachers conducted 1:1 mathematics learning mentoring for two hours at a times and twice a week for 15 weeks. The pre-service mathematics teachers submitted the mentor log, which recorded weekly learning and emotional observations. We collected the mentor log and the reflection log of pre-service mathematics teachers and the interviews with pre-service mathematics teachers. Based on the collected data, we analyzed the effects of MKT, the understanding of students, and pre-service mathematics teachers' introspection by mathematics learning mentoring. We obtained conclusions as follows. First, mathematics learning mentoring provides an opportunity for pre-service mathematics teachers to apply the theory of mathematical education to schools. Thus pre-service mathematics teachers express theoretical knowledge as practical knowledge. Second, mathematics learning mentoring helps pre-service mathematics teachers have the ability to understand students and provide opportunities to reflect on their attitudes as learners. Third, mathematics learning mentoring helps advance teaching activities by providing pre-service mathematics teachers with opportunities to reflect on their teaching activities. Finally, mathematics learning mentoring has positively influenced the change in pre-service mathematics teachers' beliefs and teaching intuition.

• Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.43 no.6
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• pp.699-706
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• 1999

The purpose of this study was to investigate high school students' conceptions and conceptual types on molecular kinetic theory of gases. Data was collected by a series of semi-structured and in-depth interviews, and has been analyzed. This study showed that the students came to science classes with various prior conceptions of many disciplinary topics. Their conceptual types of their prior knowledge were distinguished as superficial terms-speaking, partial sense-making, and causal sense-making by the degrees of organization and elaboration of conceptual networks. These conceptual types had influence on the ways students understand and think of science, a stability of their conceptions, a tendency to distinguish school science from everyday science, and building a meaning of concept in contexts. It was referred that the students didn't have proper understanding on the nature of scientific knowledge and had been limited their participations as active learners. Therefore, in order for students to experience conceptual change, they must have opportunities of manifesting their own thinking, taking part in discussions, and promoting their motivations and metacognition of knowing and learning science.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2015.07a
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• pp.133-135
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• 2015

본 연구에서는 현재와 미래사회의 핵심역량이 될 컴퓨팅 사고력을 학생들에게 가르치기 위한 정보 교사의 교수내용지식에 어떠한 특성이 있는지를 탐구하였다. 이전의 컴퓨터 교과는 일상적인 컴퓨터 기능을 가르치는데 집중하여 교사의 교수내용지식도 기능 전수에 큰 목적을 두고 있었다. 새로이 개정된 정보 교과는 컴퓨터 과학의 원리와 개념에 대해 학생들이 이해할 수 있는 교육방법에 대한 지식을 가져야 하고, 소프트웨어의 활용 및 소프트웨어 제작에 대한 능력과 교육 방법 또한 함께 가지고 있어야 한다.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.19 no.2 s.22
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• pp.389-407
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• 2005

수학은 위계적이고 구조적인 특성을 가지고 있어서 학생들이 적절하게 학습하면 내적 동기유발이 가능하고 흥미 있게 학습해 나갈 수 있는 반면 단편적인 지식들로 학습하려 한다면 그 양이 방대해지고 제대로 이해하기가 어렵다. 그러므로 교사는 수학적 지식의 구조를 깨달아 지식의 본체가 내적으로 어떻게 조직되고 상호 관련되어 있는지 알아야 하고 학생들이 수학적인 아이디어와 절차를 획득하고 탐구하게 하는 적절한 문제를 제시하여 문제해결을 통해 가르쳐 가는 방법을 생각해야 할 것이다. 이 때에 학생들은 문제해결 과정에서 능동적인 역할을 하면서 자신이 학습하고 있는 것의 핵심을 인식하고 호기심을 갖고 유의미한 기능들을 이끌어내는 학습을 해야 하는데, 이는 오랜 전통의 탐구 학습과 그 맥락을 같이 하는 것이다. 수학교과 고유의 특성을 살려 지식의 구조를 가르침에 있어서 교수 방법으로의 문제해결을 통한 지도와 학습 방법으로의 탐구학습 과정은 잘 조화될 수 있다. 이러한 조화된 모습을 드러나게 하고자 초등학교 5학년 가 단계에서 '평면도형의 넓이와 둘레 사이의 관계'를 탐구하게 하는 문제해결을 통한 탐구학습 과제를 제시해 보았다. 30-40년을 거슬러 올라가는 역사를 갖는 지식의 구조나 탐구학습, 문제해결에 대한 관심은 오늘날에도 여전히 시사하는 바가 크다고 하겠다. 수학교육에 관한 연구들은 완전히 새로운 것이기보다는 이전의 것들이 주는 의미를 되새기고 오늘의 상황에 비추어 해석할 때 수학교육은 한 단계 올라서게 된다.

• 건강소식
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• v.11 no.9 s.106
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• pp.14-29
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• 1987

흔히들 학생들을 보고 '미래의 희망'이라는 말을 많이 한다. 그 희망을 이룩하기 위해 우리는 그들이 좀 더 많은 지식을 갖기를 기대한다. 그러나 그들이 미래의 희망으로 구체화되기 위해서는 무엇보다도 체력이 튼튼해야 한다는 것은 가장 쉽게 이해되어지면서 동시에 쉽게 등한시 되어지는 것이 현실이다. 질병의 형태가 변화되어가고 있고, 그 질병들의 원인이 식생활 패턴의 변화 등과 함께 어릴 때부터 누적되어진다고 볼 때 학생들의 집단건강관리가 그 어느 때보다도 절실히 요구된다 할 수 있겠다. 그런 의미에서 현재 학생건강관리 및 그를 위한 보건교육실태와 앞으로의 방향에 대해 관계자들의 의견을 모아봤다. 미래의 희망을 가꾸는데 조금이라도 도움이 되기를 바란다.

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.102.2-102.2
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• 2012

이 연구의 목적은 거시적인 관점에서 NOS의 중요한 요소들을 강조한 Flow map(oh, 2011)를 이용한 명시적이고 암시적인 교육의 본성교육이 얼마나 이루어졌는가를 알아본다. 과학의 본성은 지식의 내용뿐만 아니라 지식이 어떻게 형성되었는가에 있다. 이러한 과학의 본성을 이해한다는 것이 현대의 과학의 중요한 목적중의 하나인 과학적 소양을 얻는 것이다. 이를 구체적으로 실현하는 교수 모형으로 가장 중요한 이론의 생성과 실험에 의한 확증과 이론의 확증을 미시적인 관점으로 연구를 전개하였다. 따라서 먼저 Kuhn(1996)의 과학철학 이론과 NOS를 통한 Flow map 개발에 이론적 배경이 된 과학의 본성의 정의, 과학의 본성에 대해 합의된 핵심 요소들, Kuhn(1996)의 과학철학 이론을 바탕으로 한 Oh(2011)가 제안한 Flow map의 구조를 알아본다. 연구방법은 귀추(abduction)를 통한 가설의 생성과정과 확증을 보여주는 Oh(2012)의 자연과학의 추리과정을 이용하여 충북대학교 천문우주학과에서 자연과학캠프에 참여한 고등학생들을 대상으로, "Galileo의 흑점발견과정"으로부터 현대의 태양의 흑점 모형을 이해하도록 한다.

• Journal of Elementary Mathematics Education in Korea
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.59-78
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• 2008

The purpose of this study was to research and analyze students' informal knowledge before they learned formal knowledge about fraction concepts and to see how to apply this informal knowledge to teach fraction concepts. According to this purpose, research questions were follows. 1) What is the students' informal knowledge about dividing into equal parts, the equivalent fraction, and comparing size of fractions among important and primary concepts of fraction? 2) What are the contents to can lead bad concepts among students' informal knowledge? 3) How will students' informal knowledge be used when teachers give lessons in fraction concepts? To perform this study, I asked interview questions that constructed a form of drawing expression, a form of story telling, and a form of activity with figure. The interview questions included questions related to dividing into equal parts, the equivalent fraction, and comparing size of fractions. The conclusions are as follows: First, when students before they learned formal knowledge about fraction concepts solve the problem, they use the informal knowledge. And a form of informal knowledge is vary various. Second, among students' informal knowledge related to important and primary concepts of fraction, there are contents to lead bad concepts. Third, it is necessary to use students' various informal knowledge to instruct fraction concepts so that students can understand clearly about fraction concepts.