An Analysis on Completeness of Educational Objectives in Elementary Science Curriculum

국민학교 자연과 교육목표의 일관성 분석 연구

The purpose of this study was to investigate the completeness of educational objectives according to grades, objective domains and content areas, and to inquire the completeness of educational objectives by instructional quality profile and to restate educational objectives on the elementary school science curriculum. The taxonomy as a classification tool was developed in order to classify the science educational objectives. Teacher's guide-books of elementary school science were used to analyze the completeness. The educational objectives were checked using the objective classification tool by 11 experienced specialists in science education. The following are the results of this study. 1. Completeness of unit was shown approximately the 62 percentage in chapters, the 72 percentage in sections and the 87 percentage in periods. 2. Only the related chemistry parts showed that each objective domains were stated evenly. 3. On the whole, the number of understanding(38%) of stated educational objectives was much more than the other domains, such as manual skill(7%), attitudes.interests.appreciations(4%). 4. The elementary school science objectives were restated using the instructional quality profile in order to increase the completeness.