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http://dx.doi.org/10.14697/jkase.2020.40.3.347

Development of Assessment Tools for Scientifically Gifted and Talented with Lower Grades in Elementary School  

Seo, YoonKyung (Seoul Garak Elementary School)
Jhun, Youngseok (Seoul National University of Education)
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Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education / v.40, no.3, 2020 , pp. 347-358 More about this Journal
Abstract
He purpose of this study is to design and apply a pilot assessment tools for scientifically gifted and talented elementary school students with lower grades. The assessment tool consists of three parts: homeroom teachers' recommendation, paper and pencil test and performance tests. The tools are verified whether they are suitable for unique characteristics of young children and enable to attract active participation. For suitability check, students' performance tests were inductively analyzed and 30 behavioral patterns were shown which were included and partially exceeded the level of lower elementary students' performance expectation in NGSS. As a result, we concluded that assessment tool developed in this study will be effective in discriminating young pupils' scientific talents. Then for participation check, we compared the number of coding references as an indicator of participation. Two cases were found that students with high interest participated passively in performance tests. We found these 'passive participants' had excessive scientific experiences and extremely narrow region of interest, during the process of complex interpretation between the results of this assessment tool and in-depth interviews with homeroom teachers. We found out in this study that newly developed tools can be used in school scene after modifying and elaboration through accumulation of more case studies.
Keywords
identification of scientific talents; lower elementary students; performance assessment tools; behavioral patterns;
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