• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.153-167
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• 2007

In this study, it is assumed that understanding the nature of science (NOS) would enhance students' performance of scientific inquiry in more authentic ways. The ultimate goal of this study is to suggest new models for developing scientific inquiry activities through understanding the NOS by linking the NOS with scientific inquiry. First, the various definitions and statements of the NOS are summarized, then the features of the developmental nature of scientific knowledge and the nature of scientific thinking based on the philosophy of science are reviewed, and finally a synthetic list of the elements of the NOS is proposed, consisting of three categories: the nature of scientific knowledge, the nature of scientific inquiry, and the nature of scientific thinking. This suggested synthetic list of the NOS is used to suggest a model of scientific inquiry through the understanding of the NOS. This list was designed to provide basic standards regarding the NOS as well as practical guidance for designing activities to improve students' understanding of the NOS.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.353-366
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• 2011

An alternative vision for science inquiry that appears to be important and challenging is model-based inquiry in which students generate, evaluate and revise their explanatory model. Pre-service teachers should be given opportunities to develop and use their mechanistic explanatory models in order to participate in the practice of science and to have a sound understanding of science. With this view, this study described a case of pre-service elementary teachers' scientific modeling in magnetism. The aims of this study were to explore difficulties preservice elementary teachers encountered while they engaged in a model-based inquiry, and to examine how their understandings of the nature of scientific models changed after the model-based inquiry. The data analysis revealed that the pre-service teachers had difficulties in drawing and writing their own thinking because they had little experience of expressing their own science ideas. When asked to predict what would happen, they could not understand what it meant to make a prediction "based on their model". They did not know how to use or consider their model in making a prediction. At the end of the model-based inquiry they reached a final consensus of a best model. However, they were very anxious about whether the model was the "correct" answer. With respect to the nature of scientific models, almost all of the pre-service teachers initially viewed models only as a communication tool among scientists or students and teachers to help understand others' ideas. After the model-based inquiry, however, many of them understood that they could create, test, and revise their "own" models "by themselves". They also realized the key aspects of scientific models that a model can be changed as evidence is accumulated and a model is a knowledge production tool as well as a communication tool. The results indicated that pre-service elementary teachers' understandings of the nature of scientific models and their previous school science experiences could affect their performance on a model-based inquiry, and their experience of scientific modeling could help them enhance their understandings of the nature of scientific models.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제28권7호
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• pp.759-767
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• 2008

This article arose from the previous studies, which suggested a synthetic list for the nature of science (NOS), discussed the relationship between the NOS and scientific inquiry and the development of the NOS in the context of scientific inquiry. In this article, for teaching scientific inquiry through the NOS, I proposed three teaching models - reflection, interaction, and the direct model -. Within these teaching models, understanding the NOS is viewed as a prerequisite condition for the improved performance of scientific inquiry. In the reflection model, the NOS is embedded and reflected in scientific inquiry without explicit introduction or direct explanation of the NOS. In the interaction model, concrete interaction between scientific inquiry and the NOS is encouraged during the process of scientific inquiry. In the direct model, subsequent to directly comprehending the NOS at the first stage of activity, students conduct scientific inquiry based on their understanding of the NOS. The intention of this present article is to facilitate the use of these models to develop teaching materials for more authentic scientific inquiry.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.450-466
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• 2009

The purpose of this study was to explore preservice elementary teachers' perceptions on models used in science and science education. Participants were sixty-one undergraduate students who were enrolled in a science education course offered at a university of education located in a mid-sized city, Korea. Data were obtained from the participants at the beginning of the course when they provided their answers to a questionnaire about models. The analysis revealed that a large number of the preservice teachers perceived models as representative of physical realities. By contrast, a relatively small number of them viewed models as representations of ideas or things like theories or hypotheses. Lots of the participants were apt to define a model from the perspective of its functions and considered the purposes of models communication, teaching, and understanding as well as visualization, simplification, and clarification. Most of the preservice teachers believed that there could be multiple models for a single target, and all of them answered that models could be changed in science. It was therefore concluded that the preservice teachers perceived properly the multiplicity and variability of models. Nevertheless, they could not elaborate how a model is used and evaluated in the process of scientific inquiry, and just a few of them mentioned the detailed nature of models. The preservice teachers possessed teacher-centered views of using models in the science classroom, and a small number of them remarked that they were going to use models for students to develop their own models and perform scientific inquiry.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.423-436
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• 2009

이 연구에서는 중등 과학 교과서의 과학적 모형들에 대해 그 표상 양식과 속성에 따라 분류하는 분석틀을 개발하여, 7${\sim}$10학년 과학 교과서 생명 영역에 제시된 과학적 모형들의 유형을 분석하였다. 그 결과, 모형의 표상 양식은 생명 영역의 주제별로 특성을 나타냈다. 전체적으로는 기관의 형태를 표상한 그림이나 시스템의 작동에 대한 설명과 같은 모상 모형과 상징적 모형의 비율이 고르게 높았다. 그러나 '생물의 구성'과 '생명의 연속성' 에서는 실제적 모형이 상대적으로 높게 나타났다. 또한 이론적 모형은 개념의 특성상 추상성이 높기 때문에 '생명의 연속성' 주제에서 일부 제시되었다. 몸짓 모형이나 비유적 모형은 매우 낮은 비율을 보였다. 표상의 속성 차원에서는 모든 주제에서 정적 모형의 비율이 매우 높았고, 동적 모형의 비율은 매우 낮았다. 따라서 과학 개념들의 특성을 좀 더 명확히 파악하고, 그 개념을 정확히 표상할 수 있는 다양한 유형의 모형들을 개발하려는 노력이 요구된다. 과학적 모형들에 대한 유형 분석은 개념이나 현상을 표상하는 모형의 유용성과 한계를 파악할 수 있고, 특정 개념을 표상하는데 적합한 모형을 고안하는데 도웅을 줄 수 있다. 또한 이런 유형의 분석은 현 교과서들에 나타난 과학적 모형 사용의 제한점과 바람직한 방향을 모색하게 할 뿐 아니라, 7차 개정 교육과정에 따른 과학 교과서를 구성하는데 유용한 정보를 제공해 줄 것이다.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.77-86
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• 1996

The purpose of this study was to review the studies related to concept learning forcusing on the meanings, kinds, and characteristics of concepts. Then the characteristics of the concepts were analyzed in the three positions: metaphysics, epistemology, and psychology. It was identified that the word 'concept' were confused with the other words such as conception, construct, idea, notion, identity. It was also found that researchers defined the concepts by the use of various meanings. The instructional strategies for scientific concepts were also analyzed in this study. The study found that the instructional strategies for concept learning were developed according to the views about the nature of concepts. Described on the paper are three types of instructional models for science concepts suggested by constructivists as follows: concept formation, concept differentiation, and exchange. They developed the models based on the current research on the misconceptions of major scientific concepts.

• 한국지구과학회지
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.393-404
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• 2007

본 연구의 목적은 우리나라 10학년 과학 교과서 지구 분야에 등장하는 과학적 모델을 분류해 보는 것이었다. 과학적 모델을 표상 매체, 표상 방법, 모델의 가동성이라는 세 가지 차원에서 검토할 수 있도록 개발된 분류틀을 이용하여 11종 교과서의 지구과학 관련 단원을 분석하였다. 연구의 결과, 과학 교과서들은 지구과학의 세부 영역의 본성이 반영된 영역-특이적인 모델들을 수록하고 있는 것을 알 수 있었다. 즉, '지구의 변동' 단원은 접근이 용이하지 않은 지구의 내부 구조나 판들의 운동을 표상하는 모상 모델을 많이 포함하고 있었는데, 이들은 대부분 평면적 그림 모델과 정적 모델에 속하였다. '대기와 해양' 단원에서는 일기도나 해수의 온도와 염분을 나타낸 등치선도 등을 포함한 기호모델과 도해적 모델이 많이 등장하였다. '태양계와 은하' 단원에서는 규모가 큰 천체나 그들의 운동을 표상하는 모상 모델이나 유비 모델의 비율이 상대적으로 높게 나타났다. 이러한 분석 결과가 지구과학 교육과 관련 연구에 시사하는 바를 논의하였다.

• 한국지구과학회지
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• 제26권5호
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• pp.387-394
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• 2005

본 연구는 과학 영재 프로그램을 개발하고 개선하는데 반영하고자 2002년도 서울 대학교 과학 영재 교육센터에서 운영된 과학 영재 프로그램의 각 주제에 제시된 학습 목표, 과학적 모형, 과학 탐구의 인지 과정을 분석하였다. 교육 목표와 과학적 모형, 탐구 활동의 세 요소들은 과학 교육 과정의 구성에 있어서 중요하다는 판단 아래 각 요소들이 제시된 정도를 파악한 후 이들의 수준이 영재 학생들의 인지적 요구를 충족시키는지에 초점을 두어 분석 결과를 해석하였다. 이에 따라 교육 목표의 인지 영역 중에서 상위 사고력 영역에 해당하는 종합 영역, 과학적 모형 중에서 상위수준의 추상성과 복잡성 모형인 다 개념-과정 모형, 과학 탐구의 인지 과정 중 창의성 영역에 해당하는 실험 설계의 인지 과정이 과학 영재 학생들을 가르치는 데 중요한 항목임을 전제하였다. 분석 결과 서울 대학교 과학 영재 프로그램의 각 주제에 제시된 교육 목표는 상위사고력 영역과 하위사고력 영역이 비슷한 비율로 나타나며, 그 중에서 종합 영역은 낮게 나타났다. 과학적 모형은 다 개념-과정 모형보다는 단일 개념 모형이 많았으며 추상성 수준은 중간 정도였다. 과학 탐구의 인지 과정은 실제 과학 탐구의 인지 과정을 고르게 다루지는 않았다. 특히 실험 설계의 인지 과정은 적게 다루고 있었다. 따라서 분석한 과학 영재 프로그램이 과학 영재들의 인지적 요구를 충족시키기 위해서는 종합 영역의 교육 목표, 다 개념-과정 모형, 실험 설계의 인지 능력을 더 많이 반영해야 한다.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.54-67
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• 1995

This study has been performed in order to achieve three objectives. They are as follows: To analyze, based on the research literatures, the nature of scientific inquiry ability and the characteristics of its constitutive elements. To identify inquiry skills and techniques essential to such areas as physics, chemistry, biology, and earth science. To develop instructional models and materials for enhancing inquiry ability on the part of high school students. It was found in the study that the scientific inquiry was interpreted in terms of different meanings according to the viewpoint of the person who are interested in the nature of science. The scientific inquiry has been viewed as the process of knowledge formation, scientific method, inquiry process or process skills depending on the epistemological, methodological, educational perspectives, respectively. It was also identified that certain kind of skills or techniques would be used for inquiry in only one specific area of the science. The skills and techniques are effectively learned when those are taught with specific knowledge in each area of the science. The model and materials for fostering scientific inquiry skills will be presented on the second part of the report.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.133-148
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• 1995

This study has been performed in order to achieve three objectives. They are as follows: To analyze, based on the research literatures, the nature of scientific inquiry ability and the characteristics of its constitutive elements. To identify inquiry skills and techniques essential to such areas as physics, chemistry, biology. and earth science. To develop instructional models and materials for enhancing inquiry ability on the part of high school students. It was found in the study that the scientific inquiry was interpreted in terms of different meanings according to the viewpoint of the person who are interested in the nature of science. The scientific inquiry has been viewed as the process of knowledge formation, scientific method, inquiry process or process skills depending on the epistemological, methodological, educational perspectives, respectively. It was also identified that certain kind of skills or techniques would be used for inquiry in only one specific area of the science. This study drew a conclusion based on the findings that the skills and techniques will effectively be learned when those are taught with specific knowledge in each area of the science. Reported in this paper are the materials developed, for fostering scienctific inquiry skills on the part of the high school students. The materials were developed, using two themes of a theoretical-abstract chemistry topic and a conceptual-concrete biology topic. Those materals were designed for an experiment and an observation, respectively.