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Effects of Instructional Supervision Emphasizing Reflective Thinking on Teaching Science of Elementary Teacher (반성적 사고를 강조한 수업장학이 초등교사의 과학수업에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Young-Soon;Kim, Hyo-Nam;Sin, Ae-Kyoung
    • Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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    • v.31 no.8
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    • pp.1092-1109
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    • 2011
  • The purpose of this study was to analyze of the effects of instructional supervision emphasizing reflective thinking on science teaching of elementary teachers. The participants in this study were two teachers. This study was divided in former, middle, and later periods, and consisted of monitoring their own teaching, interviewing, journal writing, discussion with peer teachers and teacher training. Data included descriptions of nine science classes, nine interviews, seven journals and the journals of the researcher. Data analysis tools were the frameworks of the questions, feedback, teaching methods, elements of teaching behavior, and reflection levels. This study employed qualitative research, analysis of the frequency of data, and quoting of descriptions related to the result. The results of this study were as follows: First, teachers showed mainly technical reflection, but changed to show more practical reflection, and critical reflection in the later period of instructional supervision. Second, instructional supervision emphasizing reflective thinking on science teaching for elementary teachers meaningfully changed the question, feedback, teaching methods and teaching elements of teachers. From the results of this study, instructional supervision emphasizing reflective thinking on science teaching for elementary teachers can be considered an effective method in improving teaching elementary science, and instructional supervision used in this study made possible the higher level of reflection and appropriate teaching behavior.

Science teachers and Secondary students' Perception of Pseudoscience (사이비과학에 대한 과학교사와 중등학생의 인식조사)

  • Kang, Kyunglee
    • Journal of Science Education
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    • v.37 no.1
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    • pp.87-116
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    • 2013
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate science teachers and secondary students' perception of pseudoscience. Subjects were 491 secondary students and 65 science teachers who enrolled in secondary schools located in Korea. The instrument of this study was a questionnaire which consisted of 33 items on 7 domains: fortune and fate, parapsychology, spiritual beings, alternative medicine, UFO and mystery, creationism, and introduction of the pseudoscience concepts in science education. The results suggested that it is necessary to develop science education programs focused on the pseudoscience for secondary students and science teachers. Media such as television, movie, and books should provide a well-organised scientific programs.

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A Study on Factors Affecting Pre-Service Teachers' Learning Commitment in Online Science Classes (온라인 과학수업에서 초등예비교사의 학습몰입에 영향을 미치는 요인 연구)

  • Lee, Yong-Seob
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Earth Science Education
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.193-201
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    • 2021
  • This study is a study of factors affecting pre-service teachers' learning immersion in online science classes. The results of a survey on the responses of 88 pre-primary teachers to online science classes were interpreted. In online science class, independent variables were set as ease, usefulness, and social presence, and dependent variables were set as learning immersion. Online science classes were conducted based on the university's LMS system. The results of the study were interpreted by regression analysis for t-test, correlation between factors, and multicollinearity test in pre-post-responses of pre-service teachers for ease, usefulness, and social presence. The results of this study are as follows. First, there was a significant effect in the before-and-after tests of factors in the online science class. Second, the correlation coefficient between factors in online science class is .306 for sense of community and mutual support and concentration at the significance level of .01, and .354 for learning immersion and open communication, indicating that there is a correlation. Third, considering the effective results of the pre-post test of each factor in the online science class, it cannot be interpreted that a particular factor had an effect, but it is interpreted that learning was immersed in ease, usefulness, and a sense of social presence.

Scientific Explanations by Earth Science Teachers in Secondary Schools: Analyses of the Logical Forms and Discursive Features (중등학교 지구과학 교사들의 과학적 설명: 논리적 형식과 담화적 특징 분석)

  • Oh, Phil-Seok
    • Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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    • v.27 no.1
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    • pp.37-49
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    • 2007
  • The purpose of this study was to classify the logical forms of scientific explanations provided by teachers in secondary earth science classrooms, to examine the characteristics of the scientific explanations in different forms, and to identify the roles of the teacher and students in discursive practices for scientific explanations. Data came from the earth science teachers who participated in overseas teacher in-service programs in the years 2003 and 2004. A total of 18 video-taped lessons and their verbatim transcriptions were analyzed. The result showed that deductive-nomological explanations occurred most frequently in earth science classrooms and that the deductive-nomological model was well-suited to those problems for which there existed firmly established scientific laws or principles to construct scientific explanations. However, abductive explanations were presented when the classes dealt with retrodictive tasks of earth science. The statistical-probabilistic and statistical-relevance models were also employed in explaining weather proverbs and unusual changes of weather, respectively. Most of the scientific explanations were completed through the teachers' monologic utterances, and students assumed passive roles in discursive practices for developing scientific explanations. Implications for science lessons and science education research were discussed.

The Development Direction of the Fishehes Highschool based on Fishery Consciousness by Teachers in Kyungbuk Province (경북지역 수산계 고등학교 교사의 수산업 의식 분석에 의한 학교 발전 방안 모색)

  • KIM, Sam-Kon;PARK, Jong-Un;LEE, Sang-Cheol
    • Journal of Fisheries and Marine Sciences Education
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.129-148
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    • 2002
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate of fishery consciousness for fisheries high school teachers. The data was collected from 61 fisheries high school teachers in Kyungbuk Province. The treatment of materials are classified by level of academic careers, teaching careers. This research evaluated percentage to the frequency of reponses to each question and carried out $\chi^2$ - test, etc. The statistically significant level accounted for p<.05 and made use of SPSS10.0. The conclusion of the study were as follows: Strategic development of fisheries high school on fishery consciousness need to program with fishery characteristic, to promote maritime affairs had better systematic publicity activities. On educational system policy need to keep consistency of occupational education policy, change of titles of school and reconstruction of department, expand of carrier guidance direction. On high self-conceit of Hsheries high school teachers need to many discussion be based program of school itself and academic society. And director and vice-principle station region of islands, etc.

A Study on The Method of organizing Department Classroom in accordance with Managing Department System (교과교실제 운영에 따른 교과교실 공간배치 구성에 관한 연구)

  • Yoon, Hee-Cheol
    • The Journal of Sustainable Design and Educational Environment Research
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    • v.10 no.3
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 2011
  • Ministry of Education, Science And Technology, from 2009 to 2014, try to establish the setting of Department System in the Middle Schools and High Schools. They selected 45 Schools in 2009 and 61 Schools in 2010 for the Advanced Department System. I studied 2 High schools in 2009 and 3 High schools in 2010 of them, which located in GyeongGi-Do. I studied the Location of Department Classrooms, Teachers' Labs, Homebases and Resting Spaces of them. The conclusions are follows. 1) Most of them take Horizontal Zoning System in the Department Classrooms. 2) The Number of Teachers' Labs were increased in most of floors. On the other hand, most of Labs' Area were decreased. Every department Classroom Zone has one Teachers' Lab. 3) Every schools took much more spaces of Homebases and Resting Spaces than before. And various Resting Spaces using Corridors and Outdoors are prepared for students, those who moves every changing class time by the Department System.

Specialized High Schools in Computer Percieved by Their Teachers and Students (컴퓨터 특성화고등학교에 대한 교사와 학생의 인식)

  • Jang, Han-Kee;Park, Jong-Un;Lee, Sang-Bong
    • Journal of Fisheries and Marine Sciences Education
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.183-193
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    • 2006
  • The aim of this research is to present the fundamental data of the tangible school operation in order to get Specialized High Schools in Computer fixed firmly and developed. This project was made by analyzing and thorough investigations how teachers and students think of their school lives, curriculum, future guidances, and the pursuing directions of the school. And that is based on understanding Specialized High Schools distinguished from the traditional Business High Schools. In order to develop the Specialized High School Related Computer as the model of the Specialized High School in Korea, it is important that the government trains the teachers who give students satisfactions. Also for the prospective future of the Specialized High School Related Computer, it is necessary that a good curriculum are developed in detail and the superior students are accepted in their entrance. Also, the students brought by the good teachers will contribute to Korean computer industries. So then, the Specialized High School Related Computer will be dispersed as training computer talents.