An Investigation on Science Teachers' Evaluation Practices in the Secondary Schools

중등학교 과학교사들의 학습 평가에 관한 실태조사

The present study was carried out to investigate the actual condition of the evaluation of science learning in the secondary school, and to develop the basic data for the improvement of the science learning assessment. Various questions for three evaluative domains were asked to 51 science teachers with the questionnaire during the in-service training course for certificate on summer in 1998. The cognition of the table of specification appeared high as 98% responses to the questionnaire, but the teachers' ability to distinguish behavioral elements was low as 47% responses. The evaluative rate of three domains for knowledge, skill and attitude appeared as 45%, 35% and 20% evaluation in both diagnostic and formative evaluation and 40%, 40% and 20% evaluation in summative evaluation. The evaluation of process skill appeared a tendency depending on laboratory reports as 61%, and was higher rather than in the formative evaluation or summative evaluation. In the evaluation of attitude domain, about a half of teachers answered that they evaluated the domain with laboratory reports as 43%, and some teachers evaluated the domain with teacher's observation as 33%. Also there were a few teachers who did not evaluate the attitude domain as 8%. The rate for the elements of the process skill appeared 86% responses in the interpretation of data, 31% in the observative ability, 18% in the predictive ability, 14% in the classified ability, 12% in the measuring and data-investigating ability, 4% in the discussion ability, and 2% in the investigating ability. We could find out that many teachers had given higher rate in the evaluation of process skill and attitude rather than before the present study, therefore there was more improvement in the evaluation for process skill and attitude domain after the 6th curriculum.

6차 교육과정 개편 이전에 임용된 교사들의 경우 목표 달성을 진단하는 과학 평가에 관한 기본 지식에 대한 이해가 낮은 경향을 보여 주었다. 예를 들면, 관찰하는 방법을 알고 있는 것은 지식이며, 관찰 활동을 실천하는 관찰 능력은 탐구 기능인 것인데 오개념으로 작용하는 경향을 발견할 수 있었다. 현장 수업중에 제시한 학습 목표는 수업 후 목표 달성 여부를 평가하여야 하는데 목표에 부합되지 않은 문항으로 형성 평가를 하는 경향이 나타나고 있었다. 태도 영역 평가의 객관성 확보 방법이 여전히 어려운 과제로 대두되고 있어 이에 관한 개선이 절실함을 알 수 있었다. 6차 또는 7차 교육과정에서 지식, 기능, 태도 3영역의 균형있는 평가를 제시하고 있어 어느 정도 개선되었으나 현장에서는 수행 평가 도입으로 탐구 기능의 평가 비율을 높여 더욱 균형있는 3 영역의 평가가 이루어 질 수 있는 방향으로 개선되고 있는 추세이다.