• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.296-307
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• 1993

The purpose of this study was to identify concretely how to improve inquiry learning. To put the purpose in detail : 1) to define the inquiry skills 2) to select the factors of inquiry skills appropriate to the content of Science I (earth science) textbook 3) to develop items which consist of experimental inquiry and concept inquiry in due proportion, to evalute inquiry skills 4) to analyze the relationship between high school students' cognitive levels and the achievement of science inquiry skills. To achieve these objectives, the investigator sampled 558 students in eleventh grade, living in Seoul, Chung-Ju and Kwang-Ju, and evaluated their cognitive levels and the achievement of science inquiry skills. The results of this study showed that the cognitive levels of students were lower than those identified in Piaget's work and that the achievement of science inquiry skills were low also. It may be thought that one of most important reasons to bring about those results is lacking in adaptation capability of science inquiry items and inquiry learning. So, it can be recommended as a way to heighten cognitive levels to make inquiry learning using the textbook content. In conclusion, the investigator make suggestions as follows : 1) to give inquiry learning which consist of experimental inquiry and concept inquiry in due proportion 2) to develop inquiry items to include content for evaluating inquiry learning, and test items for psycho-motor areas 3) to publish textbooks which motivate students' inquiry activities and develop their creative thinking, considering students' cognitive levels and inquiry skills.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.92-103
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• 1995

Since the late of 1960,s, the improvement of science inquiry skills has been one of the most important goals in secondary science education. To achieve this goal, it is essential to develop a valid and reliable instrument for evaluating science inquiry skills. The purpose of this study is to develop a valid and reliable instrument for evaluating science inquiry skills for high school students. The instrument is developed through R & D procedure, which includes two field trials of the instrument. This study has formed a clear definition of the elements of science inquiry skills (formulating a hypothesis, controlling variables, designing an experiment, numeric calculation, graphing experimental data, inference, determining relationship, determining causalities, predicting experimental results , drawing a conclusion, formulating a generalization or model), and established the goals of assessment and developed the items of assessment. The instrument, Test of Earth Science Inquiry Skills, consists of 33 items which measure 11 science inquiry skills. There are content-free items for each science inquiry skills. This study has selected 11 science inquiry skills which are considered appropriate for being evaluated by paper-and-pencil test with SIEI (Hur,1984). The content validity of items, objectivity of the scoring keys and clarity of the items were checked by six experienced specialists in science education. At the same time, the two field trials has been executed and produced the reliability of the instrument, item difficulty index, and the effectiveness of distracters. The first field trial was performed using a sample of 304 high school students, and the second one using a sample of 872 high school students. Because the content validity is 84 % and the reliability (K-R 20) is 0.84, the developed instrument in this study is considered valid and reliable. The difficulty index is 49.4 %, answer ratio 59.1 %, the discrimination index 0.47 and the effectiveness of distracters evenly distributed, which also suffice the criteria of good instrument. The developed instrument in this study can diagnosis the well-developed science inquiry skills and the ill-developed science inquiry skills of the students, and trace the degree of the improvement of science inquiry skills.

• 대한화학회지
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• 제47권4호
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• pp.391-400
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• 2003

본 연구는 제6차 교육과정에서 강조한 탐구활동을 탐구내용, 탐구과정, 탐구상황의 3차원 분석틀을 이용하여 화학II 교과서를 분석하였다. 그 결과, 탐구활동의 탐구내용을 보면, 각 교과서마다 탐구활동이 관찰, 실험, 측정, 토의, 자료해석, 기본조작 등의 다양한 용어로 분류되어 있으며, 교과서마다 분류 기준에 다소 차이가 있었다. 각 교과서의 탐구내용에 수록된 탐구활동의 수는, 7개 교과서 모두 25개에서 35개 정도로 수록되어 있었다. 각 교과서의 탐구내용에 있는 탐구활동의 평균수는 각 단원에서 적게는 10${\%}$에서 많게는 30${\%}$로 분포되어 있었다. 또한 탐구과정 영역은 평균적으로 ''관찰 및 측정''이 가장 많았고, 그 다음으로 ''자료해석 및 일반화'', ''문제발견 및 해결방안'', ''이론모델셩성, 검증 및 수정''의 순서로 나타났다. 그리고 탐구상황 영역은 과학적 상황요소가 90.5%로 가장 많은 부분을 차지하였고, 그 외에 개인적 상황요소, 사회적 상황요소, 기술적 상황요소가 약 5%를 차지하였다. 이러한 분석으로부터 볼 때, STS(과학-기술-사회)의 상호관련성을 강조한 내용이 아직은 매우 미흡한 것으로 나타났다.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.274-287
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• 2000

본 연구는 제 6차 교육과정에 의해 개편된 4종의 공통과학 교과서(물질단원)의 내용분석을 통해 전체 구성이 어떻게 되어 있는지를 조사하고 6차 교육과정에 중점을 둔 탐구활동을 탐구 내용 영역, 탐구 과정 영역 및 탐구 상황 영역으로 구성된 3차원 분석틀을 이용하여 분석하였다. 4종의 공통과학 교과서에서는 풍부한 학습자료와 읽을거리를 제공하여 학생들에게 흥미 있는 교과서가 되도록 하고 있었다. 3차원 분석틀 중 탐구 내용 영역 분석에서는 교육과정 목표에서 제시하는 내용을 다양한 탐구활동을 통해 다루고 있었으며 탐구활동의 횟수도 교과서당 평균 16회 정도로 각 교과서의 탐구 활동 횟수가 유사하였다. 탐구 과정 영역의 분석에서는 자료해석 및 일반화가 39.1%, 관찰 및 측정이 30.8% 로 대부분올 차지하고 있어 공통과학 교과서의 기본 목표에서 볼 때 상위의 탐구과정 요소의 반영 비율을 좀 더 높여야 할 것으로 보인다. 탐구 상황 영역의 분석에서는 과학적 상황이 81.3% 로 대부분을 차지하였으며 현대 과학 교육의 주요한 교육운동인 STS 관련 내용은 18%에 불과하여 아직은 미흡한 것으로 나타났다.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.1-9
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• 1990

For the purpose of diagnosing the problems in inquiry instruction and evaluation in secondary schools of Korea, an inquiry achievement test and a questionnaire were administered to a sample of 127 science teachers and 610 junior high school students. The analysis of the results served to the clarification of broo:J. range of problems concerning inquiry teaching. Based on the data gathered and analyzed in this study, the major suggestions are as follows. 1. The content of science textbooks must be diminished, and be written for easier understanding. 2. Science instruction and entrance exams must be changed from content-oriented to inquiry-oriented. 3. Effective teacher education program regarding inquiry teaching and evaluating method must be developed and performed.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.56-65
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• 1993

The purpose of this study is to analyze the inquiry activities of SCIIS and Korea primary school science curricular meterials and to make suggestions for the improvement of inquiry learning based on the analysis The Scientific Inquiry Evaluation Inventory (SIEI: Myung Hur, 1984) was used to evaluate the inquiry activity content of the primary school "Science, Level-6" and "SCIIS, Level-6" textbooks. The results are as follows: 1) The inquiry activities of Korean science textbooks are stressing on gathering and organizing data, but rarely require students to formulate a hypothesis, to design an experiment. 2) The SCIIS textbooks relatively tended to put more weight on interpreting/ analysing data and hypothesizing/ designing experiments. 3)The Korean science textbooks had little concern about establishing hypothesis and designing experiments, interpreting / analysing data. 4) The SCIIS textbooks require students to perform a variety of inquiry skills when compare to Korean science textbooks. 5) Competition / Cooperation Scale checks the level of competition and cooperation among student teams inherent in science curricular materials. The result from each team is incorporated into the formation of a class result. The communication is required to formulate a synthesized class response, enhances cooperation among teams. The SCIIS(84%) is the higher than Korea(50%) in cooperation scale. 6) Korean science textbooks rarely require students to discuss about experiment when compare to SCIIS textbooks. 7) Korean science textbooks provide students with both inquiry problems and experimental procedure, or including answers SCIIS textbooks provide students with both inquiry problems and experimental procedure, or problems only. 8) The Korean textbooks emphasize demonstrating or verifying of the text while the SCIlS emphasize extending the content of the text in inquiry scope scsle. The inquiry pyramid which helps analysis the inquiry activity curriculum as a whole is one of type 1- the course is centered on gathering and organizing data. The SCIIS are better than the Korean science textbook in the light of proportion of interpreting / analysing data and hypothesizing / designing experiments.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.45-57
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• 1994

The purpose of this study is to verify whether the FAST program is the Inquiry Science Curricular Materials, through the Comparison and Analysis of Inquiry Activities between the FAST program and our Secondary Science Books. The results of this study are as follows ; 1. FAST has 226 tasks of the Inquiry Activities, which is analyzed over two times than our text. 2. In level one, FAST holds the parts of Synthesizing Results and Evaluation, Hypothesizing and Designing an Experiment but u.ese aren't found in our text. 3. In level two, our text is analyzed No Discussion 72.2%, Demonstrating or Verifying the Content of the Text 82%, but FAST has Discussion Guided 81.8%, and isn't found any tesk of Demonstrating or Verifying the Content of the text. 4. In level three, our text is exposed a typical type I and analyzed Inquiry Index 15-25 ( Middle ), but FAST is found type IV, excepting Manipulating Apparatus and Observation and analyzed Inquiry Index over 35 ( Very - High ). Therefore, FAST Program is proved to be the desirable Inquiry Science Curricular Materials. In future, this worker is to arrange the results of the following paper as follows ; 1. The verification of the FAST Program by means of the Integrated Science Curricular Materials. 2. The development of the Inquiring, Integrated Science Curricular Materials through the results of the preceding study.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제36권1호
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• pp.43-60
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• 2017

The purpose of this study was to compare the configuration changes of content elements and inquiry activities between 2009 and 2015 revised national elementary school science curriculum, and to examine the trends in achievement standards. The results of this study were as follows. First, the number of content elements presented in the 2015 revised science curriculum was slightly decreased in comparison to 2009 revised one, but fell short of goal level for revision, that was to cut 20 percent of present achievement standards. The characteristics of changes in achievement standards were to enhance the relation to practical life, to integrate the content elements separated, and to adopt the achievement standard to introduce new concept. Second, the number of inquiry activities presented in the 2015 revised science curriculum was also slightly decreased, and to be linked with the changes of achievement standards. In some cases, the range of inquiry activity was adjusted, or the unit to present it was changed. Teacher should know exactly about the elements to be changed in the 2015 revised national elementary school science curriculum, and it will be needed them to make an efforts in the cause of its smooth application.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.80-91
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• 1993

The purpose of this study is to develop an reliable instrument for evaluating science inquiry skills through an R&D procedure. A total of ten seience inquiry skills were selected for the development of the instrument, ie, observation, classifying, recognizing problems, measuring, inferring, formulating hypothesis, controlling variables, experimenting, interpreting and drowing a conclusion. And three items were developed for each sceince inquiry skill, totaling up to thirty items. The content areas of developed items are divided into three categories, material and energy, life and environment, and the earth and the space. There are 10 items for each category. The content validity and the objectivity of developed items were checked, verified in the two field trials and revised according to the analysis of items by seven experienced specialists with the degree of doctors in science education and five teachers who were studying for their master's degree in science education. According to the results of the second field trial. the content validity of the instrument was 91.1%, reliablity(K-R 20) 0.78, defficulty index 49.13%, discrimination index 0.42, mean achivement 61.85%, standard deviation 5.11, and standard error 2.40. Considering the above results, the developed instrument in this study is regarded as a appropriate instrument for evaluating science inquiry skills of elementary school students.

• 한국환경교육학회지:환경교육
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.75-86
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• 2000

The purpose of this study is to analyze the content of environmental inquiry activities and values of elementary school students written in their reports of the Energy Environment Inquiry Activity Contest which is a unit contest of the Youth Science Festival held annually in Korea and get some ideas for the valuable way of Korean environmental education. 10 teams' reports were gathered and the locality, class study area, inquiry theme, inquiry method and values were analyzed and introduced as case studies to get some insights to teach elementary school students environmental values through inquiry activities of science subject approach. Each teams set various inquiry themes in the content domain of energy resources and earth environment conservation focusing on each team's geographical characteristics and occurring environmental problems in their local areas. There were 16 sentences representing technocentrism and 12 sentences representing ecocentrism. 5 of 10 teams showed both of technocentrism and ecocentrism in their reports. But their was only scientific knowledge without any environmental values in one team's report. Inquiry activity is a good teaching-learning method to develop environmental literacy. There should be environmental values involved as far as it is the environmental inquiry activities using environmental subject matter. The result of this study proposes that environmental educators should actively intervene for inquirers to set a stage in the whole process to search for an alternative to solve environmental problems involved in their project activities. The reason is because the environmental education in the elementary school is established to operate by the infusion way into various subjects already existed in the Korean curriculum.