• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제39권3호
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• pp.353-368
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• 2020

This study analyzed the teacher's perception for influence of behavioral characteristics of scientifically-gifted students on general students in elementary school science class. To do this, we selected the eight elementary school teachers who were conducting the regular science classes including scientifically-gifted students belonging to the gifted education institutes in Seoul and conducted individual in-depth interviews. The analysis of the results reveal that the teachers mentioned seven behavioral characteristics of scientifically-gifted students in general elementary school science classes.: 'excellent in designing and performing experiments', 'playing a leading role in experiments', 'expressing their abundant prior knowledge frequently', 'attempting their tasks with curiosity and persistence', 'displaying scientific creativity', 'often asking scientific questions in detail', and 'expressing their opinions logically'. These behavioral characteristics of scientifically-gifted students had positive effects on general students, such as 'providing them with a successful experience in conducting experiments', 'improving understanding of science class contents', 'developing scientific thinking and reflective thinking', and 'improving their students' positive experiences about science'. However, the excessive learning-driven behaviors of scientifically-gifted students had negative effects on general students, such as 'limiting opportunities for general students to participate in classes', 'conducting passive exploration centered on results', and 'causing conflicts with general students'. Educational implications of these findings are discussed.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제37권3호
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• pp.267-284
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• 2018

This study analyzed the types of scientific humors made by scientifically-gifted elementary school students and their perceptions of making scientific humor. For this, 77 students from $4^{th}$ to $6^{th}$ graders of gifted science education center in Seoul National University of Education were selected. Scientific humors made by the students were analyzed according to the number and types. Their perceptions of making scientific humor were also analyzed through a questionnaire and group interviews. The analysis of the results revealed that most of scientifically-gifted students made more than 2 scientific humors, and the number of scientific humor for each students varied from 0 to 11. The most types they made were the descriptive type and the pun using pronunciation type, but they made various types without any special type to be biased. And They made more the dialogue type than the narrative type, especially the riddle type. They used scientific knowledge that preceded the knowledge of science curriculum in their grade level over two or more years. The scientific knowledge of chemistry was used more than physics, biology, earth science and combination field. The name utilization type was more than the characteristic utilization type and the principle utilization type. Scientific humors in the everyday situation were more than humors in artificial situation. The students had various positive perceptions in making scientific humor such as increase of scientific knowledge, increase of various thinking abilities, deep understanding of science concept and principle, increase of interest and motivation about science and science learning, and increase on sense of humor. They had also some negative perceptions related to difficulties in the process of making scientific humor, lack of fun, and lack of time in the class.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제33권3호
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• pp.439-452
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• 2014

The purpose of this study is to find out the effect of STEAM program on the scientific communication skills and the learning flow of elementary gifted students. The main findings of this study are as follows: First, STEAM program that mathematical, technical, engineering and art factors were combined based on basic concepts of science were developed. Seconds, the change in the scientific communication skills of experimental group applying STEAM program had statistically meaningful difference (p<.05). Third, the flow of experimental class improved, but it had no meaningful difference statistically (p>.05). But it is expected that continuing level adjusted STEAM program might have positive effect on improving the flow with the following three reasons: 1) The gifted students' flow level on learning before experiment was rather too high to expect short term effect. 2) It was hard for them to achieve flow experience because topic difficulties and students' capacities were not balanced. 3) topic commitments and autotelic behaviors of gifted students were observed during classes. Fourth, by the result of the student satisfaction questionnaire survey on this program, students actively participated in the STEAM program with interest and curiosity. As achieved self-directed problem solving, versatile communication activities and success experiences, their class satisfaction was high. Based on such results, it was expected that the gifted class applied of STEAM program could enhance scientific communication capacity of the elementary gifted students and would further positively influence flow of learning as well. In addition, it was considered to have integrated approach value to elementary gifted and talented education in the aspect that it could satisfy various educational demands of gifted students.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제34권3호
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• pp.346-356
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• 2015

The purpose of this study was to explore the characteristics of elementary science gifted students' modification of scientific explanations based on evidences. For this study, sixteen $6^{th}$ elementary students were participated. The subjects of this study were enrolled in the program for the science gifted. Students were asked to generate initial hypotheses before experiment, and to modify and revise their scientific explanations based on the experiments about water rising in burning candle(s). All the processes of small group discussion during the inquiry were audio-recorded. Students' modification of their scientific explanations were appeared in three types: 1) appropriate connections among evidences, reasoning, and claims, 2) disconnections among evidences, reasoning, and claims and/or use of inappropriate reasoning, 3) scientific explanations without their own understanding. Other problems that students encountered in the processes of modification of their explanations were also discussed.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제35권4호
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• pp.537-548
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• 2015

이 연구의 목적은 초등과학영재와 일반학생이 관찰 상황에서 나타내는 과학적 의문 생성 패턴을 분석하는 것이다. 이 연구에서 과학적 의문 생성 패턴(pattern in generating scientific questions)이란 과학적 의문의 유형(Type of scientific questions)과는 구분되는 것으로, 학생들이 탐구 과정 중 여러 유형의 의문들을 생성해가는 방식을 의미한다. 연구에 적합한 관찰 과제로 사이다 속 건포도, 촛불, 염색된 샐러리 과제를 선정하였다. 그리고 연구의 대상은 전라남도 S시 영재교육원 6학년 과학영재 26명과 같은 지역 시내에 위치한 초등학교 6학년 일반학생 27명으로 하였다. 연구 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 초등과학영재와 일반학생이 관찰 상황에서 나타낸 과학적 의문 생성 패턴은 '[패턴 1] 한 가지 유형의 의문 생성', '[패턴 2] 서로 다른 유형의 의문을 차례로 생성', '[패턴 3] 서로 다른 유형의 의문을 반복하여 생성', '[패턴 4] 서로 다른 유형의 의문을 순환하여 생성', '[패턴 5] 서로 다른 유형의 의문을 반복 순환하여 생성'의 다섯 가지로 분류할 수 있었다. 둘째, 초등과학영재와 일반학생은 각각 다섯 가지 패턴을 모두 나타냈으나 그 빈도에는 차이가 있었다. 영재학생들은 [패턴 3]과 [패턴 5]를 주로 나타냈으나, 일반학생들은 [패턴 1], [패턴 2], [패턴 3]을 가장 많이 나타냈다. 이러한 연구 결과는 학생들이 탐구 과정 중 생성한 개별 의문의 유형과 더불어 각 유형의 의문들을 생성해나가는 방식 또한 매우 중요함을 시사한다. 이를 통해 교사들은 학습자의 특성에 알맞은 과학적 의문 교수 학습 전략을 수립할 수 있을 것이다.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제31권2호
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• pp.216-226
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• 2012

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of the creative problem solving and scientific attitude through the science-based STEAM program for the elementary gifted students. For the purpose of this study, a teaching plan and worksheet for students based on STEAM was developed and applied. The objects of this study were the fourth grade of both an experimental class (18 students) and a comparative class (20 students) at the gifted class located in Gyeonggi Province. The results of this study were as follows: First, the change in students' science creative problem solving in the experimental group applying science-based STEAM program has statistically meaningful difference (p<.05). Second, the scientific attitude score of the experimental class improved, but it has no meaningful difference statistically. Third, according to the analysis of questionnaire for evaluating the program, experimental class students had a positive recognition in respect of the STEAM program and got higher satisfaction about the lesson. Therefore, science-based STEAM program applied in this study might be useful to improve the creative problem solving, and can be expected the scientific attitude' improving and better be widely applied to gifted education.

• 대한지구과학교육학회지
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.158-165
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• 2012

With five gifted and nine average elementary school students, this study attempted to make a comparative analysis on the characteristics of their scientific writings for earth science-related topics. The analysis found that all of the gifted students showed higher scores than the average in the writing sections of scientific nature, logical nature and creativity. Compared to the average scores, their creativity scores were far higher. By comparing and analyzing the predicates in the writings two groups wrote, I found that the gifted students used more sentences per topic than the average students. Both groups wrote the most numbers of sentences for Volcano-related topics. In the meantime, the gifted children used the least numbers of sentences for the related topics to atmospheric pollution and the average students did so for the related topics to fossils. By the analysis on the patterns of predicate, it was observed that both groups used material predicates most and verbal predicates least. As far as the second most used predicates are concerned, the gifted children used relational predicates and the average students used mental predicates.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제35권2호
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• pp.243-252
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• 2016

The purpose of this study was to analyze affective characteristics and the demands of elementary science gifted students on gifted educations in urban and rural areas. The subjects were 196 science gifted students. The survey questionnaires were consisted of self-esteem, interests in science, scientific attitudes, and demands regarding gifted classes. The results of this study were as follows. First, self-esteem and interests in science, particularly interests toward science, toward science learning, toward science related careers, in urban gifted students were higher than those in rural areas. Whereas interests toward science activities and science anxiety of science gifted students in rural areas were significantly higher than those in urban area. Furthermore, scientific attitudes of science gifted students in urban area were higher than rural those in open-mindedness, critical-mindedness, voluntariness, creativity, whereas science gifted students in rural areas were higher than urban those in cooperation. Second, for the analysis on demands regarding class contents and methods, 'teaching content that challenges and exciting stimuli' of science gifted students in rural areas were significantly higher than those in urban area. Third, for the analysis on demands regarding educational environments, 'satisfaction with class materials provided by gifted classes' of gifted students in urban area were higher than those in rural area.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제38권4호
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• pp.439-452
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• 2019

This study aims to compare self- and peer-assessments of science-gifted elementary students' scientific creativity. A science-gifted program on the Pascal's principle was implemented to 40 fifth-graders in the Science-Gifted Education Center for two weeks. After that, students presented their results from a scientific creativity task using the principle in class. The task was to devise a new and useful tool using the principle, and it included the students' self-assessment about their idea. During presentation, students were asked to assess the works of peers and write down the reasons that they gave the scores they gave. Shortly, student self- and peer-assessments about students' scientific creativity outcomes were compared. Based on two essential components of creativity, ideas that satisfy both originality and usefulness can be counted as scientifically creative. The main results of this study are as follows: First, the average scores of student self- and peer-assessments were 71.5 and 61.9. Second, the standard deviations of student self- and peer-assessments were 14.47 and 5.79. Third, among scientific creativity, originality, usefulness scores, only originality had a significant correlation between student self- and peer-assessment (r=.42). Fourth, the students were categorized into four groups according to the levels of their scores by student self- and peer-assessment. And the frequencies of peer-assessment group had a significant difference at p<0.05 level, according to self-assessment group (Chi Square=4.0000, df=1, p=0.0455). Fifth, through a case study by group, the results suggesting that self-assessment could be affected by the students' self-efficacy and perfectionism and such effect could also influence peer-assessment have been found. The result showed that how the student self- and peer-assessment of scientific creativity are different and what the students' thoughts on the evaluation of scientific creativity are. The findings suggested that there are several things to consider for the educators to make efforts to construct consistent assessment methods for scientific creativity.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제43권2호
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• pp.73-86
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• 2023

이 연구에서는 초등 일반 학생과 과학영재 학생이 만든 과학티콘의 특성을 비교하였다. 이를 위해 경기도 소재 일반 초등학교의 초등학교 5학년 학생 53명과 서울특별시 소재 과학영재교육원 소속 초등학교 5학년 학생 35명을 선정하였다. 그리고 이 학생들이 만든 과학티콘의 개수와 유형을 비교하였다. 연구 결과, 일반 학생보다 과학영재 학생이 주어진 30분 이내에 과학티콘을 더 많이 만들었다. 과학티콘의 유형을 비교한 결과에서는 초등 일반 학생과 과학영재 학생 사이에 비슷한 부분도 있었고, 의미 있는 차이가 있는 부분도 있었다. 하지만 전반적으로 일반 학생보다 과학영재 학생이 과학티콘에 포함된 글의 '기술 형태'와 '생성 형태', 그림의 '표현 형태', 과학티콘에 포함된 '감정', '구성 수준', '과학 내용(교육과정 초과 여부, 과학 학문영역, 과학 지식 활용) 측면에서 더 다양한 유형의 과학티콘을 만드는 것으로 나타났다. 초등 일반 학생과 과학영재 학생이 만든 과학티콘에는 모두 오개념이 매우 적게 포함되어 있었다. 이에 대한 교육적 시사점을 논하였다.