The Effects of Concept Sketches on the Understanding and Attitude in High School Student's learning of Weather Change

날씨 변화 학습에서 개념스케치 활용이 고등학생의 개념 이해도와 과학 태도에 미치는 영향

  • Received : 2010.03.18
  • Accepted : 2010.06.18
  • Published : 2010.06.30

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of concept sketches on the understanding and scientific attitude in high school student's learning of weather change. Among the various fields of meteorology, especially in weather change, we often deal with the change of the spatiotemporal change in an abstract way. So making use of 'Concept Sketches'- simplified sketches which represent the main features, principles, processes and interrelationships of the learning contents using some concise explanations, signs and terms - could help the students learn the phenomena of weather change efficiently. This study's aim was to check up the effect and analyze the results of the lesson including the concept sketches. As a result of this study, concept sketches group showed significant improvement compared to the other groups in understanding of weather change and in scientific attitude, too. In students' recognition research of concept sketches showed that students found the class more interesting with improved concentration and had a chance to review through concept sketching, which is helpful for their learning. Considering the above research results, the study which applies concept sketching required the students to actively process their knowledge, and had a positive effect on the understanding of weather changes. Most of all, drawing the pictures which is a familiar activity helped the students to take part in the class eagerly.

본 연구는 고등학생의 날씨 변화 학습에서 개념스케치 활용이 개념 이해도와 과학 태도에 미치는 영향을 알아보는 것이다. 날씨의 변화를 효과적으로 학습할 수 있도록 개념스케치-학습할 개념의 특징, 원리, 절차, 관계 등을 설명한 글이 적혀있는 그림-를 활용한 수업을 적용하고 개념 이해도와 과학과 관련된 태도에 미치는 영향을 분석하였다. 개념스케치를 활용한 수업은 교과서 위주의 강의식 수업에 비해 날씨의 변화에 대한 개념 이해도를 향상시키는데 효과적이었다. 또한 과학과 관련된 학생들의 태도 변화에 있어서도 실험집단이 비교집단보다 통계적으로 유의미한 향상을 보였다. 개념스케치 활용 수업에 대한 학생들의 인식 조사에서는 많은 학생들이 개념스케치 활용 수업이 흥미로웠으며 수업집중력이 향상되고 복습의 기회가 생겨 학습에 도움이 되었다고 생각하였다.

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