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Korean Students' Achievement in Scientific Literacy  

Shin, Dong-Hee (Dankook University, Korea Institute of Curriculum & Evaluation)
Ro, Koog-Hyang (Dankook University, Korea Institute of Curriculum & Evaluation)
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Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education / v.22, no.1, 2002 , pp. 76-92 More about this Journal
Abstract
OECD/PISA(Programme for International Student Assessment) is significant in that it is the first international comparative study assessing 15-year-old students' scientific literacy. Based on Korean students' results of percent correct in 35 science items, several characteristics such as followings were revealed. First, from the perspectives of science application area, Korean students showed the highest achievement in the area of 'science in technology' followed by in the areas of 'science in life and health' and 'science in earth and environment'. Male students achieved significantly better than female counterparts in all three areas. Second, the achievement in items of science knowledge was significantly higher than in items of scientific processes. Whereas the achievement difference between science knowledge- and scientific process items was larger for male students. Third, from the perspectives of application contexts, Korean students showed the highest achievement in the historical context and the lowest achievement in the personal context. Fourth, from the perspectives of item format, Korean students performed significantly better in open-constructed items rather than in multiple-choice items. Fifth, Korean students showed low performance in items of biotechnology and environment-related issue, which was more prominent for female students. Sixth, whereas male students performed significantly better than female students in most aspects, it is noteworthy that there was no significant gender differences in items of scientific processes and females performed significantly better than male students in open-constructed items which require long sentence.
Keywords
OECD/PISA; achievement; scientific literacy; gender differences; item format; items of scientific processes;
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