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http://dx.doi.org/10.5467/JKESS.2017.38.6.438

A Study of Impacts on Students' Scientific Attitude by Specialized Thematic Science Club Activities  

Kim, Sang Woo (Department of Earth Science Education, Korea National University of Education)
Lim, Sung Man (Department of Earth Science Education, Korea National University of Education)
Wee, Soo Meen (Department of Earth Science Education, Korea National University of Education)
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Journal of the Korean earth science society / v.38, no.6, 2017 , pp. 438-447 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of specialized thematic science club activities on the students' scientific attitudes. The subjects of this study were ninety students from two high schools in Korea. The study group consisted of forty experimental groups and forty six science clubs with no special topics. The mean, standard deviation, t-value, and significance were compared with the corresponding sample t-test. First, specialized thematic science club activities showed positive effects on students' scientific attitude. Although the average scores of the scientific attitudes of the experiment group and the control group were improved before the operation of the club, the increase of the experimental group which operated the specialized topic was larger than that of the control group and there was a statistically significant difference. In the analysis of sub-elements of scientific attitude, the increase of the experimental group was larger than that of the control group. There were no statistically significant results in the control group, but the experimental group showed significant differences in openness, creativity, and cooperativeness among the subordinate factors of scientific attitude. Second, to investigate the effects of the specialized thematic science club activities on the scientific attitude in school, family, and social situations solving the problems of daily life as well as solving the science problems, there was no significant difference within the group, but there was a statistically significant difference between the experimental group with the specialized topic and the home and school situation. This result indicated that the scientific attitudes required to solve problems in the home and school have improved positively.
Keywords
science education; club activity; scientific attitude;
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