• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제36권2호
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• pp.163-179
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• 2017

This study is to examine whether elementary science textbooks in Korea and Singapore are applicable to flipped learning. By comparative study we sought to identifying appropriate features of science textbooks for learner-centered teaching. We analyzed text pages on the unit of 'Working of electricity' in Korean elementary science textbook for sixth grade and three chapters of 'Electric circuits, Using electricity, Conductors of electricity' in Singaporean elementary textbook, 'Science : My pals are here!'. We designed evaluating frameworks for science textbooks based on the four pillars of flipped learning. and applied it to 10 elementary teachers evaluate two textbooks. They evaluated textbooks with Likert Scale items and wrote detailed statements and exemplars about their choices. We analyzed the teachers' evaluative descriptions inductively and chose commonly mentioned characteristics. Based on the analysis, we got to the conclusion about specific features of two elementary science textbooks in terms of flexible environment, learning culture, intentional contents, and teachers' expertises. Implications for improving science textbooks towards flipped learning and learner-centered teaching through comparative study were discussed.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.309-318
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• 2003

Scientific reasoning is one of the main concerns in current science education. This study have tried to answer on the question whether Korean science education has the potential to help improve of students' ability to think scientifically. Therefore, the present study investigated the relationship between reasoning patterns evident in science textbook and science examination items, and students' scientific reasoning skills across grades in Korea. 1975 subjects (1022 females and 953 males) were administered in the Lawson's Test of Scientific Reasoning skills. Forty seven science textbooks and 240 assessment instrument were analyzed by several scientific reasoning keys. Scientific reasoning patterns were adopted from Lawson's classification which characterized the patterns as the empirical-inductive and the hypothetical-deductive. This study found that reasoning patterns evident in textbook analyses and assessment instrumental items do not evidentce the potential to stimulate the development of students' reasoning skill. In order to improve the students' abilities to think and achieve, higher levels of reasoning must be included in the science textbook and examination. Further, some of scientific reasoning processes, such as generating hypotheses, designing experiments, and logical prediction, were not found in science textbooks and test items in Korean secondary schools. This study also discussed the educational implication of these results and further studies about to develop student's reasoning ability.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제37권1호
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• pp.80-91
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• 2018

The visualization materials in science textbooks are very important in students' learning. Recent visualizations are increasingly emphasizing the importance of infographic visualizations. The purpose of this study is to analyze the visualization materials in $5^{th}$ and $6^{th}$ elementary science textbook focusing on infographics. Visualization materials were classified into infographic and simple illustration. Infographics were classified into 8 sub-types. Findings are as follows. First, infographics were 19.0%, and simple illustrations were 81.0% among elementary textbooks' visualization materials. The portion of infographic varied by content areas. In Biology and Earth Science area, the portions of infographic were high. Second, several types of infographics were used in elementary science textbooks. Timeline infographic were the most frequent, and emphasis infographic, concept mapping infographic, comparison infographic were used frequently. The most frequent types of infographic were different by content area. Third, infographics used more than simple illustrations in the role of concept explanation. Educational implications on science textbook's infographics were discussed.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제38권4호
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• pp.575-585
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• 2018

본 연구에서는 과학교육에서 그 동안 주목받지 못했던 과학언어 및 과학용어에 대한 연구를 체계적으로 수행하기 위한 목적으로 지난 20년간의 과학교과서 텍스트를 한 자리에 모아 과학교과서 말뭉치를 구축함으로써 다각도로 분석 가능한 형태의 언어 자원을 생성하였다. 말뭉치 구축 대상 자료는 6차 교육과정, 7차 교육과정, 2009 개정교육과정의 초등학교에서부터 고등학교까지 모든 과학교과서를 수집하고 이 가운데 두 개의 출판사에 해당하는 132권에 대한 말뭉치를 구축하였다. 원시말뭉치, 형태주석 말뭉치, 용어주석 말뭉치의 총 3단계로 구축하였다. 최종적으로 구축된 과학교과서 말뭉치를 K-STeC(Korea - Science Textbook Corpus)이라 명명하였다. K-STeC은 과학용어에 대한 의미 구분과 분야가 표지된 의미 주석 말뭉치로서 교육과정, 과목, 학년, 출판사의 서지 정보와 대단원, 중단원, 소단원의 단원 정보, 페이지, 문장번호의 위치 정보와 함께 본문, 탐구활동, 참고자료, 제목 등의 텍스트 구조 정보를 메타정보로 마크업 하였다. 총 3년여에 걸친 연구 기간 동안 언어정보학, 컴퓨터공학, 과학교육학의 세 분야 전문가들의 노하우를 융합하여 새로운 연구 방법을 창출하였고, 다수의 전문 인력들이 투입되어 노동집약적 결과물을 내었다. 본 원고에서는 전체적인 연구 절차와 방법을 조망함으로써 새로운 연구 방법론 및 결과물을 소개하고 향후 과학언어 연구의 발전 가능성 및 결과물의 활용방안에 대해 논의하였다.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.163-172
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• 2003

The purpose of this study was to develop the analytic framework of Creative Problem Solving(CPS) for elementary school science textbook. For this purpose, we developed the framework based on the theories of problem, definition of problem solving and various kinds of CPS model. The six elements of the framework for content analysis were extracted through theoretical examination: problem introduction, problem statement, solution thinking, formulating hypothesis, testing hypothesis, and assessment. The developed framework was applied to the extbooks for the 5th and the 6th grades 1st semester in elementary science textbook of the 7th national curriculum. The results of this study were as follows: 1. The scores of the framework for content analysis in the 5th grade were slightly higher than those of the 6th grade, but there were no significant difference. 2. The comparison of the scores between the elements of the framework was found that the scores on the elements of testing hypothesis and formulating hypothesis were higher than those of the other elements. 3. The comparison of the scores between the units was found that the scores of the framework for the 9th unit (“trip of water”) of the 5th grade were higher than those of the other units, which were presented lower level than 1.0 (50.0%) score of the framework. 4. The comparison of the scores between the intensive course and the regular coures in the 6th grade textbook was showed that the scores on the intensive course were higher than the basic course. In conclusions, it was found that the problem introduction and problem statement in the textbook should be amended, and that various information and activities should be presented in the textbook.

• 과학교육연구지
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• 제38권2호
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• pp.270-285
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• 2014

본 연구의 목적은 디지털 교과서를 활용한 과학수업이 실제로 어떻게 이루어지고 있으며 그것이 과학 교육 측면에서 어떤 함의를 제공하는지 탐색하는 것이었다. 이를 위하여 디지털 과학 교과서를 활용한 초등학교 4학년 지구와 달 단원의 수업을 질적으로 기술하고 수업 현상의 구조를 분석한 후 그 의미를 비평적인 관점에서 해석하였다. 그 결과 디지털 교과서의 도입이 이미 확립되어 있는 초등 과학 수업의 구조나 교실 상호작용 양상을 변화시키는 데 기여하지 못하고 있음을 알 수 있었다. 이에 따라 디지털 교과서의 활용이 초등 과학 수업 방식에 변화를 주어 새로운 교실 상호작용을 가능하게 하기 위한 방안을 논의하였다. 이때는 디지털 과학 교과서의 본질과 개발 방향에 대한 합의가 있어야 하고 과학 수업에서 교사의 고유한 교수법적 역할의 변화가 있어야 함을 주장하였다.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제15권9호
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• pp.907-912
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• 2006

The study is conducted to analyze the questioning styles in three middle school environmental textbooks in terms of frequency, type, and placement of questions. It is also to analyse and compare the kinds of scientific processes elicited by the questions in the topics of textbook. The instrument was the Textbook Questioning Strategies Assesment Instrument (TQSAI) which was developed the Cooperative Teacher Preparation Program, University of California. The mean number of questions per topic was 4.0 and the ratio of questions to sentences was 3.8%. The numbers of empirical and non-empirical questions were 52.5% and 47.5% for textbook D, 56.6% and 43.4% for textbook J, and 92.7% and 7.3% for textbook K, respectively. The open-hearted question was the highest in all types of questions for three middle school environmental textbooks. The explanatory question was the highest in all characteristics of questions. The types of various questions were distributed throughout textbooks including the green field, debate-discussion, examination, and so on.

• 수산해양교육연구
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.473-486
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• 2008

This study was to compare 'experiment' presentation types of middle school science textbooks of Korea, Japan, and China and to draw some implication for the improvement of Korean science textbooks. It analyzed the experiments from the unit 'Light' of science textbooks which is common content in all three different science textbooks. The researchers analyzed the experiments with two questions. First, how is the experiment organized? Second, what role does each element of the experiment is playing in the experiment setting? The findings of international comparative analysis of experiment presentation types of middle school science textbooks of three countries were as follows. First, the Korean and Chinese textbooks tended to present the experiments without enough information for the experimental process and method, whereas the Japanese textbook tended to present the experiment with detailed information for the experimental method and process. Second, whereas the Korean and Chinese textbooks tended to have a loosened relationship among pre-experimental content, experiment, after-experiment content, the Japanese textbook tended to have an organic relationship among pre-experimental content, experiment, after-experiment content.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.134-143
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• 2010

The purpose of this study is to devise a new method for examining the readabilities of textbooks and to compare the readabilities of elementary school science textbooks. Third and sixth grade science textbooks were compared in terms of word, sentence, and paragraph in this study. In the word analyses, criterion suggested by Kim (2003) who classified about 238,000 words into seven categories according to their educational importances was adopted. In this study, the words from 3rd and 6th grade science textbooks were classified into four categories, and then the kinds and frequencies of words in each category were investigated. In the sentence analyses, sentences were classified either a simple sentence or a compound/complex sentence, and the ratios of each type were calculated. The average number of words in a sentence was also calculated in the sentence analyses. The ratios of conjunctions and demonstratives were examined in the paragraph analyses. The results indicated that both the kinds and frequencies of words in 3rd grade science textbook were smaller than those of 6th grade one. However, both science textbooks were similar in the distributions of words across the four categories. The ratio of simple sentences in 3rd grade science textbook was higher than that of 6th grade one, and the length of a sentence in 3rd grade science textbook was also shorter than that of 6th grade one. Both the ratios of conjunctions and demonstratives in 3rd grade science textbook were lower than those of 6th grade one.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.386-397
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• 2012

The purpose of this study was to find a way to improve the science textbook graph through analyzing teachers' interpretation process with eye movement tracking when they try to read the science textbook graph. Participants in this project were 10 elementary school teachers while bar graphs, line graphs, pie charts in 2007 revision science textbooks were used as materials. SMI (SensoMotoric Instruments)' iView X TM RED 120 Hz was used in order to collect eye movement data. Although subjects paid attention to the title of the graph at first, the consequence of the eye fixation was changed by the composition of the graph in case of the rest of areas. In particular, the flow of visual attention and fixation time were affected by the form and configuration of the graph. The diversity of graph construction caused confusion in interpreting graphs; the manner of presenting title, the difference of background colors, size of characters, the name of X-axis and Y-axis. Out results showed that the conformation of graphs as well as the presentation of each factor should be composed in accordance with the educational purpose for helping users to easier understanding.