• 대한지구과학교육학회지
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.180-191
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• 2014

The purpose of this study was to determine the effects on STEAM education for intergrated science inquiry ability of high school students. The experimental and control group were 30 students, respectively. The STEAM program developed by a teacher study group was applied to the experimental group students for 6 months. The control group learned traditional methods. The results of this study showed that the intergrated science inquiry ability of experimental group students were increased positively(P<0.05). Also the abilities as hypothesis, defining variables, determining variables, operational definition and data interpretation improved affirmatively(P<0.05) except graphing.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.27-38
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• 1995

The purposes of the 'Students' Science Inquiry Experiment Tournament' which is one of the 'Students' Science Inquiry Olympic Tournaments' are; 1) cultivate students' intellectual interests, inquiry abilities, and scientific attitude dealing with students' scientific reasoning abilities, problem solving abilities, and experimental apparatuses operation abilities. 2) contribute substantiality of science education through experimental inquiry learning. 3) make the ground of basic science development of the future society by selecting excellent students who have talents for science. 4) elevate science teachers' morale by this tournament. The test items set and evaluation results of the tournament were analysed in this study. The results of this study were ; 1) the discrimination ability of the paper-and pencils test and the experiments were low because the students' scores of the items were not normally distributed and standard deviations were very small values. 2) most of the tournament participation students did not answered to the subjective type test items. 3) according to the responses of the tournament participation students, the tournament contribute to the students' interests in science. But the opinion was dominant that the tournament didn't contribute to school science education improvement.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.51-60
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• 1996

The purpose of this study is to develope and analyze a test for the assessment of physics inquiry experiment. To do this, three experiments about 'analysis of motion', 'the relation of force and acceleration', and 'free fall motion' in high school physics textbooks were chosen, and 5 scientific inquiry domains and 16 science process skills have been specified. For each experiments, test sheet of $29{\sim}44$ questions for assessing students' ability about physics inquiry experiment were developed on the basis of the scientific inquiry processes developed earlier. After instruction about 3 experiments mentioned above, a test was administered to the students who took experiment. After the adminstration of a test, the ratio of correct answers, discrimination index, and reliability were analyzed. Using the ratio of correct answers, we can determine item difficulty. Through the D.I(discrimination index), we can find which items can discriminate the students who took experiment well from those who took experiment badly, and we can also find the stability of a test result by the reliability analysis. The test developed in this study were also administered to the students who did not take experiments, and the results were compared with the those of the students who took experiments. With the comparison by chi-square method, we could find which items can discriminate the students who took experiments from those who did not take experiments.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제40권3호
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• pp.366-389
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• 2021

이 연구에서는 과학 탐구 수업에서 초등학생들이 바라는 과학 교사의 모습을 구성하는 요인들을 추출한 후, 이들 요인 사이의 구조적 연관성을 분석하였다. 과학 탐구 수업에서 초등학생들이 바라는 과학교사의 모습을 구성하는 요인들을 확인하기 위하여 탐색적 요인 분석(EFA)을 실시하였고, 그 결과를 바탕으로 확인적 요인 분석(CFA)을 실시하였다. 또한, 확인적 요인 분석을 통해 산출된 요인 구조를 토대로 과학 탐구 수업에서 초등학생들이 바라는 과학 교사의 모습을 종합적으로 살펴보았다. EFA 결과, 과학 탐구 수업에서 초등학생들이 바라는 과학 교사의 모습을 이루는 요인으로 5개 요인(교수 전략, 평가 전략, 사전 지도, 학생 이해, 학습 발달)을 추출하였다. CFA 결과, 교수 전략과 학습 발달, 교수 전략과 학생 이해 사이에 상관관계가 비교적 높게 나타났다. 추출된 요인 구조를 바탕으로 과학 탐구 수업에서 과학 교사의 모습에 대한 학생들의 인식을 종합적으로 살펴본 결과, 초등학생들은 과학 교사가 학생들에 대한 이해를 반영하여 학습 발달을 지원하고, 효과적인 수업 전략과 적절한 평가 방법을 활용하는 것을 중요하게 인식하고 있었다.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제39권6호
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• pp.707-715
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• 2019

학생들의 과학핵심역량을 신장시키기 위하여 학생 중심의 자기주도탐구는 중요한 교수학습법이다. 학생들은 탐구과제를 수행하는 과정에서 다양한 어려움을 경험하게 되고, 때로는 원하는 결과물을 산출하지 못하거나, 예상했던 것에 비하여 의미 없는 탐구를 수행하는 등의 실패를 경험하게 된다. 이 연구는 학생들의 자기주도적 과학탐구에서의 어려움과 실패 원인을 확인하기 위해 진행되었다. 이 연구는 과학고등학교 및 과학중점 고등학교에서 과제연구의 경험이 있는 고등학생 16명을 대상으로 하였다. 자료 수집은 반구조화된 개방형 질문을 중심으로 한 심층면담으로 이루어졌다. 질적 자료 분석은 면담 원자료로부터 참여자들이 경험한 어려움과 실패 상황과 그 원인이 드러낼 수 있는 문단을 찾아 귀납적으로 분석하였다. 연구 결과 대부분의 실패 원인은 능력 부족, 불완전한 절차, 어려운 과제의 선정으로 나타났다. 학생들의 과잉확신, 계획오류, 집단사고 등 다양한 인지편향도 원인으로 분석되었다. 연구 결과들을 토대로 학생들이 자기주도 탐구에서 논리적, 반성적, 합리적 문제해결 역량을 발휘하여 실패와 시행착오의 단계를 최대한 줄이도록 충분한 준비를 할 수 있도록 해주는 교육 전략의 개발이 필요하다.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제26권5호
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• pp.620-636
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• 2006

The purpose of this study was to analyze one science teacher's understanding of student argumentation and his explicit teaching strategies for implementing it in the classroom. One middle school science teacher, Mr. Field, and his students of 54 participated in this study. Data were collected through three semi-structured interviews, 60 hours of classroom observations, and two times of students' lab reports for eight weeks. Coding categories were developed describing the teacher's understanding of scientific argumentation and a description of the main teaching strategy, the Claim-Evidence Approach, was introduced. Toulmin's approach was employed to analyze student discourse as responses to see how much of this discourse was argumentative. The results indicated that Mr. Field defined scientific inquiry as the abilities of procedural skills through experimentation and of reasoning skills through argumentation. The Claim-Evidence Approach provided students with opportunities to develop their own claims based on their readings, design the investigation for evidence, and differentiate pieces of evidence from data to support their claims and refute others. During this approach, the teacher's role of scaffolding was critical to shift students' less extensive argumentation to more extensive argumentation through his prompts and questions. The different level of teacher's involvement, his explicit teaching strategy, and the students' scientific knowledge influenced the students' ability to develop and improve argumentation.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.9-17
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• 2007

This study sets out to assess the scientific literacy of secondary school students and to describe their differences according to gender, grade, course. This study involved 112 middle school students and 213 high school students. Their scientific literacy was measured by the Scientific Literacy Test designed by Manhart (1997). A 70-item multiple-choice test was used to assess their scientific literacy. The constructs of science factor included 36 items making up physical science, life science, and earth science subtests. The social aspects of science factor consisted of 34 items in nature of scientific inquiry/knowledge, science as a human endeavor, science and technology, and societal perspectives. A two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and t-test were conducted using the SPSS program. The scientific literacy score of the middle school students was 45.17. There was no significant difference according to gender but boys tended to perform better than girls on both the constructs of science factor and the social aspects of science factor. The scientific literacy score of the high school students was 51.79. There was no significant difference according to gender. But, boys tended to perform better than girls on the constructs of science factor. Girls tended to perform better than boys on the social aspects of science factor. The students taking a course on natural science got statistically higher scores than the students taking a course on humanities. The high school students got statistically higher scores than the middle school students.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.121-131
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• 2009

In this study, we investigated the elementary school students' perceptions toward scientific and/or technological professions in the views of accuracy, complexity, and diversity, and compared them by the students' grades and their science-related career aspiration levels. We also studied the relationships among the students' perceptions toward scientific and/or technological professions and their cognitive (science achievement), affective (enjoyment of science lessons, attitude to scientific inquiry, self-efficacy), and behavioral (participation in science-related activity) characteristics. The subjects were 369 students of 4th and 6th grades at three elementary schools in Seoul. The results revealed that the students were relatively well aware of what works and professions in science and/or technology were, but they did not have good understanding of them in the views of complexity and diversity. The 6th graders had better perceptions toward science and/or technological professions than 4th graders, although they showed the lower scores of attitude to scientific inquiry. Moreover, the higher science-related career aspirations were, the higher scores in all tests of the perceptions and the personal characteristics were. The students' perceptions toward scientific and/or technological professions were found to have relationships with their cognitive, affective, and behavioral characteristics. The multiple regression analysis of the personal characteristics on the perceptions toward scientific and/or technological professions indicated that science-related activity, science achievement, and self-efficacy were significant predictors. Educational implications are discussed.

• 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.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제41권2호
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• pp.307-324
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• 2022

이 연구에서는 2015 개정 교육과정에 따른 초등 과학 국정 교과서와 동 교육과정에 따라 2022년에 출판된 초등 과학과 검정 교과서 7종의 '물체의 무게' 단원에 진술된 과학 개념의 서술과 탐구활동 내용의 특징을 비교하여 초등 과학 검정 교과서의 내용 다양성을 분석해 보았다. 이를 위해 각 교과서의 설명텍스트에서 개념 서술 내용의 흐름, 개념 서술 과정에서의 특이점을 분석하였고, 언어네트워크 분석 방법으로 노드와 링크 수, 연결중심성이 높은 중심 단어를 분석 하였다. 또한 교과서에 제시된 탐구활동에서 탐구활동 유형, 탐구과정기능 및 탐구 활동 내용을 분석하였다. 연구 결과, 검정 교과서에서는 과학 개념의 서술이나 탐구활동 내용 구성에서 다양성이 잘 드러나지 않았다. 하위 개념의 포함 여부, 중심 단어 등이 교과서별로 유사하였다. 탐구활동을 비교하였을 때에도 탐구활동 내용과 탐구 유형, 탐구과정기능이 유사하였다. 특히 이전 교과서에서 제시되지 않았던 새로운 탐구활동 주제나 실험 방법을 도입한 경우는 없었다. 하지만 동일한 교육과정을 바탕으로 개발되었음에도 불구하고 검정 교과서 체제의 장점을 살릴 수 있는 노력들이 일부 시도되고 있었다. 핵심 내용을 설명하기 위한 하위 개념의 배치 순서가 교과서마다 달라 개념을 설명하는 과정이 몇 가지 유형으로 구분되었고, 탐구활동의 내용은 동일하였지만 기존 실험에서의 어려움을 개선하고 보완하기 위해 탐구 활동 준비물이 교과서별로 서로 다르게 나타나기도 하였다. 이를 바탕으로 검정 교과서의 장점을 살릴 수 있는 시도가 계속되어야 할 것이다.