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The Influence of Small Group Discussion Using the History of Science upon Students' Understanding about the Nature of Science  

Kang, Suk-Jin (Jeonju National University of Education)
Kim, Young-Hee (Seoul National University)
Noh, Tae-Hee (Seoul National University)
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Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education / v.24, no.5, 2004 , pp. 996-1007 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this study, we investigated the effects of small group discussion using episodes from the history of science on students' understanding about the nature of science (NOS), achievement, enjoyment of science lessons, and science learning motivation. Participants were 138 ninth graders from a middle school in Seoul and they were assigned to a control group and a treatment group. Students in the treatment group were provided with two contrasting perspectives concerning the NOS and were encouraged to discuss them in small groups. The intervention lasted for 5 class periods. The results revealed that students of both the control group and the treatment group were found to possess similar views about NOS in a NOS pretest, whereas students of the treatment group exhibited more sophisticated understanding in a NOS posttest. The scores of the treatment group were also significantly higher than those of the control group in an enjoyment of science lessons test and a learning motivation test. However, there was no significant difference between two groups in the achievement test scores.
Keywords
nature of science; history of science; small group discussion;
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