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http://dx.doi.org/10.5467/JKESS.2012.33.5.459

Exploring Korean Pre-service Elementary Teachers' Scientific Inquiry Using the Science Writing Heuristic Template

Shin, Myeong-Kyeong (Department of Science Education, Gyeongin National University of Education)

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Journal of the Korean earth science society / v.33, no.5, 2012 , pp. 459-466 More about this Journal

Abstract

This study aimed to investigate the characteristics of pre-service elementary teachers' understanding about scientific inquiry in terms of designing exploration and reasoning that is used to formulate explanations based on evidence. The research context was an open inquiry with using the Science Writing Heuristic (SWH) template in which participant students were not provided with inquiry questions. As data, lab. 39 pre-service elementary teachers participated in this study while taking their science methods course. Analyses of the reports were framed by the cognitive processes of inquiry (Chinn and Malhotra, 2002) and each report was coded and analyzed by the framework of inquiry (Tytler and Peterson, 2004). Results showed that groups' works that utilized the SWH template encouraged the participants to interact each other about scientific inquiry. They came up with more relevant and testable questions for their scientific inquiry. It implicates that children will be able to have chances of testing their own questions more properly by using the SWH template in science classes just as the participants did in this study. The use of the SWH template would help pre-service teachers to teach appropriately how to test inquiry questions to their students in the future. Discussion was made to figure out the characteristics or Korean pre-service elementary teachers' understanding about scientific inquiry.

Keywords

scientific inquiry; cognitive process; scientific reasoning;

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