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Elementary School Students' Perception about the Aims of School Science Experiments by Gender and Academic Achievement

성별과 학업 성취도에 따른 학교 과학 실험의 목적에 대한 초등학생의 인식

  • Received : 2013.03.24
  • Accepted : 2013.05.29
  • Published : 2013.05.31

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the elementary school students' perception about "the aims of school science experiments". For this study, the perceptions were surveyed from 193 elementary school students (96 boys and 97 girls) in one school located in Gyeonggi-Do. The responses were analyzed with categorization based on their gender, school science test scores. The results from this study were as follows; in relation to the aims of school science experiments, the elementary school students considered intrinsic values of doing experiments were more worthy than the extrinsic values of it. It was found that 25.4% of the students had ideas that students do science experiments for understanding science theory. Up to 70% of the students responded that they do science experiments for understanding and memorizing the contents of science textbooks. School science experiments were regarded as an educational tool for the science study. It is recommended that teacher need to make clear the aims of laboratory work and help students to understand of it.

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