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The Effects of Probability Activities in Thinking Science Program on the Development of Probabilistic Thinking of Elementary School Students  

Kim, Eun-Jung (Chunghak Elementary School)
Shin, Ae-Kyung (Korea National University of Education)
Lee, Sang-Kwon (Chonnam National University)
Choi, Mee-Hwa (Yeouido High school)
Choi, Byung-Soon (Korea National University of Education)
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Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education / v.25, no.7, 2005 , pp. 787-793 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purposes of this study were to investigate the development of probabilistic thinking in relation to the cognitive level of elementary school students and to analyze the effects of probability activities in Thinking Science(TS) program on the development of probabilistic thinking. 152 6th grade elementary school students compiled the sample group which was divided into an experimental group and a control group. Probability activities in TS program were used with the experimental group, while the normal curriculum was conducted with the control group. Both the experimental and control group were assessed with Science Reasoning Task II and a probabilistic thinking test before execution of this investigation and were post-tested with probabilistic thinking test after the project period was complete. Results of this study showed that the students in the concrete operational stage and transitional stage used subjective strategy together with quantitative strategy in probability problem-solving, and students in the early formal operational stage used quantitative strategy in probability problem-solving. It was also found that the higher the cognitive level of students, the higher the probabilistic thinking level. The probability activities of the TS program influenced the development of probabilistic thinking of elementary school students. Assessing the development of probabilistic thinking on the basis of the cognitive level found that the level of effectiveness was significantly higher for students in the early concrete operational stage and transitional stage than students in any other stage.
Keywords
Thinking Science; probabilistic thinking; cognitive acceleration; cognitive level; logical thinking;
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