• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.61-73
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• 1998

This research suggests science inquiry play of analogy as a teaming method to help the students in concrete operational stage to develop scientific thinking skills and to understand abstract science conceptions. The research focuses on/considers the characteristics and merits of the science inquiry plays, and the learning method by analogical reasoning. This learning through the science inquiry play of analogy can be considered as a meta-model for scientific thinking skill. The learning has the following processes: 1) Students analogize the abstract science conceptions and facts into play-type activities including the concrete contents such as students themselves, their physical-sensory motions, concrete objects, play methods, and play rules. 2) Students as analogized objects play a role physically and sensuously according to the methods and rules analogized in the play. 3) Students find out the concrete contents included in the science inquiry play of analogy, draw the results, and deduce the new conceptions from the results by reflective thinking and analogical reasoning.

• 대한공업교육학회지
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.23-32
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• 2005

The purpose of this study is to investigate and analyze the actual state of teaching and learning methods which are applied to the vocation inquiry section-related subjects of the College Scholastic Ability Test(CSAT) by the teachers who teach specialized subjects of vocational high schools. In order for us to get the background and feature of establishment in the area of vocation inquiry section of the CSAT, previous studies and literature was analyzed and sample survey on the 600 teachers who teach the vocation inquiry section-related subjects was made. The result of this survey is as shown below; First, the teachers who are in charge of vocation inquiry section-related subjects understand that theory and practice is in the ratio 60.76:39.24 and ratio of theory is higher than that of practice. Second, teaching and learning method which is the most relevant to the vocation inquiry section is in the order of lecture(83.9%), experiment & practice(50.4%), computerized learning(41.1%). Third, teaching and learning method which is the most used by the teachers who are in charge of vocation inquiry section-related subjects is in the order of lecture(85.8%), computerized learning(50.1%), experiment and practice(44.4%). Forth, the most desirable teaching and learning method which the teachers who are in charge of vocation inquiry section for this subject believe is in the order of lecture(62.7%) experience & practice(47.7%), computerized learning(44.4%). In light of this result, even though there were not so much difference among the teaching-learning methods which are the most consistent with the contents of the subject in relation to the vocation inquiry section, the most used teaching-learning method by the teachers who teach vocation inquiry section-related subjects and the most desirable teaching-learning method which the teachers who are in charge of vocation inquiry section believe, the most used teaching-learning method by the teachers who are in charge of the vocation inquiry section is lecture. Therefore, it is necessary for us to reinforce the contents in relation to the practice & experiment so that the experience and application can be accumulated and improved through practice which is the specialty of the course of the study in the vocational high school and various teaching and learning method should be developed in consideration of contents of the subject, capability & quality of the learners and status of a classroom.

• 대한지구과학교육학회지
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.116-125
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• 2011

The purpose of this study is to make a Result analysis on the Free Inquiry Method of Elementary school student. Also, this study investigates how free inquiry activities effect the science creative problem solving ability and science process skills of Elementary school student. For this study 150, third year, elementary School students from Busan City were selected. The Inquiry examined the effectiveness of each of the following free inquiry methods: the Program Based Learning method, the Project method, the Independent Investigation Method, the Small Group Inquiry Method, and the Science Notebooks Method. The students were divided into groups in which they incorporated the respective methods into their practice. Test showed the following results: First, the Science Notebooks Method activities proved to be much more effective than the Program Based Learning method, the Project method, the Independent Investigation Method, the Small Group Inquiry Method, and the Science Notebooks Method in terms of developing on science creative problem solving ability. Second, the Project method activities proved to be much more effective than the Program Based Learning method, the Independent Investigation Method, the Small Group Inquiry Method, the Science Notebooks Method in terms of developing on science process skills.

• 한국지구과학회지
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• 제33권5호
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• pp.459-466
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• 2012

This study aimed to investigate the characteristics of pre-service elementary teachers' understanding about scientific inquiry in terms of designing exploration and reasoning that is used to formulate explanations based on evidence. The research context was an open inquiry with using the Science Writing Heuristic (SWH) template in which participant students were not provided with inquiry questions. As data, lab. 39 pre-service elementary teachers participated in this study while taking their science methods course. Analyses of the reports were framed by the cognitive processes of inquiry (Chinn and Malhotra, 2002) and each report was coded and analyzed by the framework of inquiry (Tytler and Peterson, 2004). Results showed that groups' works that utilized the SWH template encouraged the participants to interact each other about scientific inquiry. They came up with more relevant and testable questions for their scientific inquiry. It implicates that children will be able to have chances of testing their own questions more properly by using the SWH template in science classes just as the participants did in this study. The use of the SWH template would help pre-service teachers to teach appropriately how to test inquiry questions to their students in the future. Discussion was made to figure out the characteristics or Korean pre-service elementary teachers' understanding about scientific inquiry.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.149-160
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• 1998

본 연구는 창의적 문제해결력 신장을 위한 중등 과학 프로그램 개발의 기초연구를 위해 수행된 것이다. 기초 연구로서 제 6차 과학과 교육과정에는 창의적 문제해결력에 관한 내용이 어떻게 반영되고 있으며, 교실현장에서는 창의적 문제해결력 신장을 위한 수업이 이루어지고 있는지에 대하여 알아보았다. 이를 위하여 제 6차 중 학교 과학과 교육과정의 성격, 목표, 방법에 나타난 창의적 문제해결력의 요소를 조사하였으며, 과학 수업 관찰, 교사면담을 실시하였다. 중학교 과학과 교육과정은 특정, 총괄목표, 하위목표 모두 창의성 및 문제해결력이라는 용어를 명시함으로써 창의적 문제해결력을 강조하였다. 그러나 현 중학교 과학교육에 있어 창의적 문제해결력은 교육과정의 성격 및 총괄 목표에만 포괄적으로 기술되어 있을 뿐, 실제적으로는 실시되지 못하고 있음이 드러놨다. 또한 과학 교사들은 창의적 문제해결력에 대하여 대체로 이해하고 있었으나 교과진도 문제, 학급당 과다한 학생수, 지식중심의 교과 내용, 입시와 연관된 평가, 교사의 준비 부족으로 인하여 창의적 문제해결력 배양을 위한 수업은 거의 하지 못하고 있음을 밝혔다.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.57-63
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• 1984

An inquiry approach in teaching science has been advocated by many science educators for the past few decades, and most elementary and secondary science curricula have incorporated it in varying degrees. It has been proven in recent studies, however, that there exists considerable discrepancy between the expectation of outcomes of the inquiry approach and the actuality. This in part implies that there is a somewhat urgent need for the systematic evaluation of the approach in teaching science. The purpose of this study is to develop a comprehensive instrument for evaluating inquiry teaching approaches embedded in science curricular materials. To develop a more valid and reliable instrument a set of empirical data was used in the developmental procedure, and most of the previous studies regarding inquiry teaching method and inquiry evaluation were consulted. The inquiry evaluation method developed in this study, called the Scientific Inquiry Evaluation Inventory (SIEI), is composed of three parts: (1) analyzing and coding each science process task of inquiry activity; (2) evaluating each inquiry activity as a whole; and (3) evaluating each science laboratory curriculum as a whole. The first part of the instrument consists of twenty science process categories and thirty subcategories grouped into four sections: (1) gathering and organizing data; (2) interpreting and analyzing data; (3) synthesizing results and evaluation; and (4) hypothesizing and designing an experiment. The science process categories are arranged according to the level of difficulty, psychological level of thinking, degree of creativity demand, and the model of the process of scientific inquiry, which is also developed in the study. The second part of the instrument contains four evaluation scales of inquiry activity: (1) competition/cooperation scale; (2) discussion scale; (3) openness scale; and (4) inquiry scope scale. And the last part consists of three methods for evaluating a science laboratory curriculum as a whole: (1) inquiry pyramid; (2) inquiry index; and (3) difficulty index. The instrument is designed to be used by teachers, science curriculum developers and science education evaluators for the purpose of diagnosing the nature and appropriateness of scientific inquiry introduced in secondary science curricular materials, especailly in laboratory work and field work.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.96-108
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• 2006

The purpose of this study was to investigate how prospective elementary school teachers perceived teacher's inquiryoriented teaching practice, with an emphasis on students' scientific explanations based on scientific evidence. For this study, 94 prospective elementary school teachers were participated. 14 among 94 participants had chances to intensively experience this particular teaching methods for 15 weeks. All of the 94 participants observed the intended science teaching practice for 4th graders in two different elementary schools, which utilized the science talks emphasizing students' scientific explanation activity. For quantitative data analysis, they were asked to provide their reaction to the science teaching methods after their classroom observation. For qualitative data analysis, 5 among the participants, who had relatively long term experience with this teaching practice, were chosen to interview in order to understand their individual reasons of the ways they perceived about the inquiry-oriented teaching methods boosting students' scientific explanation. The results show that the prospective elementary teachers generally thought the emphasis of students' scientific explanation based on scientific evidence could enhance young elementary students' science content understanding, stimulate their curiosity/interests, and further develop their ability to engage actively in scientific discussions. However, some prospective teachers tended to think that the science teaching. methods would not be effective in terms of managing science classes, though. This study concludes that the prospective teachers tended to hold an endemic dilemma. On the one hand, they had their clear preference to the inquiry-oriented teaching practice as the most ideal teaching methods. On the other hand, they also had their persistent hesitance in using these methods due to their fear that elementary students might not adequately grasp the important science content when engaged in scientific discourse through an inquiry-oriented class.

• 한국지구과학회지
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• 제26권8호
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• pp.751-758
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• 2005

본 연구에서는 지질학 연구에 관한 과학철학적 논의를 기반으로 지구과학 탐구의 특징을 반영한 지구과학 탐구방법의 개념적 틀을 개발하고, 이 틀을 분석 도구로 하여 중학교 2학년 과학 교과서에 수록된 탐구 활동을 분석하였다. 분석틀에서는 지구과학의 탐구 방법을 논리적 추론 방법, 해석적 방법, 역사적 방법으로 구분하고, 각각에 부속하는 방법이나 방법론상의 특징들을 세분화하여 제시하였다. 분석을 위해서는 중학교 2학년 과학 교과서의 '지구의 역사와 지각 변동' 단원의 탐구 활동을 대상으로 하였다. 분석된 탐구 활동들에 논리적 추론 방법이 반영된 비율은 귀납적 방법이 23%, 연역적 방법이 22%, 귀추적 방법이 70로, 귀추적 방법이 가장 높은 반영 빈도를 보였다. 해석적 방법의 특징이 반영된 비율은 '이미 형성된 이해 구조의 역할'이 92%로 가장 높았으며, '순환적 추론'이 9%, '이해의 역사적 본성'이 17%였다. 역사적 방법은 그 반영된 비율이 높은 것으로부터 적절한 분류체계의 구성'(53%), '현대적 동일과정설의 원리 적용'(47%), '잔존물 해석'(41%), '단계이론화 과정에서 장소로써 시간을 대체'(3%), '독립된 연구 결과들의 수렴 정도 평가(3%) 순으로 나타났다.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제32권4호
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• pp.686-702
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• 2012

이 연구에서는 중학교 자유 탐구에서의 소집단 구성 방식이 학생들의 자유 탐구 수행에 미치는 영향을 혼합 연구방법으로 조사하였다. 강원도 소재 중학교 2곳에서 1학년 각 2학급씩 4학급(남녀 혼성)을 연구대상으로 하였으며, 여교사 2명과 총 113명의 학생들이 참여하였다. 두 학교 학생들을 각각 과학 탐구능력 및 성격 유형에 따라 동질집단과 이질집단으로 편성하였으며, 동일 과제로 약 3주에 걸쳐 자유 탐구를 수행하게 하였다. 소집단 구성 방식이 자유 탐구 수행에 미치는 영향을 알아보기 위해 사후 과학 탐구능력 검사 결과를 통계적으로 비교 분석하였으며, 양적 연구를 보완하기 위한 질적 연구로서 학생 포커스 그룹 인터뷰 및 교사 심층 면접을 실시하였다. 양적 연구결과, 두 학교 모두 소집단을 동질적으로 구성했을 때가 이질적으로 구성했을 때보다 과학 탐구능력에 대한 개인별 향상 지수의 향상 비율이 높게 나타났다. 한편 소집단 구성방식의 효과를 질적으로 분석한 결과, 학생과 교사 모두 인지적인 특성으로 소집단을 구성하기보다 정의적인 특성에 기초하여 소집단을 구성하는 것이 자유 탐구 수행에 더 효과적이라고 인식하고 있었으며, 특히 학생들의 경우 성격 유형에 따른 소집단 구성 방식을 가장 선호하였다. 또한 자유 탐구를 수행했던 일부 학생들과 지도교사들은 소집단을 구성하기 위하여 학생들에 대한 정보를 충분히 수집할 필요가 있으며, 그와 같은 정보를 학생들의 정의적 특성에 따른 소집단의 구성 기준과 혼합하여 사용하는 방식을 제안하였다.

• 영재교육연구
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.647-667
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• 2009

이 연구에서는 초등과학 영재학생의 개방적 탐구 활동에서 나타난 참과학탐구의 특징을 분석하여 효과적인 영재교육 프로그램이 되기 위한 방안을 제시하고자 하였다. 이를 위하여 청주교대부설 과학영재교육원의 여름집중교육에서 실시하는 탐구토론대회에 참가한 초등과학 영재학생 5명으로 이루어진 한 소집단을 선정하였고, 계획단계에서부터 탐구결과 정리 단계까지 학생들의 상호작용과 수행 과정을 녹음 녹화하였다. 수집된 자료는 참과학탐구의 인식론적 측면과 인지과정 측면의 특징을 토대로 분석하였다. 분석 결과 영재학생들의 개방적 탐구 활동에서는 참과학탐구의 인식론적 특징인 이론 의존성과 지식의 사회적 구성이 나타났다. 학생들은 탐구 과제의 이해 및 실험 설계에 대해서 이야기를 할 때 사고 실험이나 과학적 개념에 대해서 자주 언급했다. 또한 인지과정 측면에서는 연구 설계 부분의 특징이 두드러지게 나타났는데, 주로 변수선택, 과정 계획, 변수 통제, 측정 계획 등에서 참과학탐구와 유사한 특징을 보였다.