Journal of Korean Elementary Science Education (한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육)

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Analysis of Elementary Students' Visualization Process of Creative Problem Solving in Science

초등학생들의 창의적 과학 문제 해결 과정에서 나타나는 시각화 활동 분석

  • Received : 2017.01.26
  • Accepted : 2017.02.24
  • Published : 2017.02.28
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Abstract

Cultivating creativity is one of the goals in science education. Previous studies report that students use visualization while they solve the creative science problem and it looks helpful to make them think more. For this study three $6^{th}$ grade students were selected in the consideration of pre-test through the qualitative think-aloud method. The results show that even though students have many ideas in planning stage in problem solving, they appeared to visualize familiar and empirical ideas at first. So if teachers want to watch another creative ideas, they tended to give enough time to visualize many ideas. Students drew lines, circles, "X"marks to select or remove information during their problem solving works. They said these marks seem to be useful to understand question. However, removal marks sometimes turn out to block another chance to re-think. Also students did not have a chance to reflect what they did. It means that they lose the chance to do convergent thinking. The implications of this study include the importance of students' visualization works to facilitate their creative ideas and support their problem solving strategies. In this study, we discuss the meaningful messages for teachers who construct science classroom for creativity.

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