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http://dx.doi.org/10.5467/JKESS.2019.40.6.639

Science Gifted Students' Interpretation and Understanding of Concept about T-S Diagram  

Yu, Eun-Jeong (Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation)
Jeong, Deuk Sil (Seoul Gangdong Songpa District Office of Education)
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Journal of the Korean earth science society / v.40, no.6, 2019 , pp. 639-653 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to investigate the science gifted students' level of interpreting the oceanic graph and of understanding the oceanic physical concept through analyzing the Temperature-Salinity (T-S) diagram and inferring the SOFAR (SOund Fixing And Ranging) channel. A total of 106 gifted students in the 3rd year of a science gifted high school, using T-S diagrams published in one of the journals of Oceanology, developed descriptive questions asking the depth of the SOFAR channel to conduct the quantitative and qualitative analysis of graph interpretation ability. As a result, there was a big difference in the level of graphs interpretation and concepts understanding for each science gifted students such as interpreting, modeling, and converting, and exposed their alternative concepts about water temperature, salinity, and density. The results of this study will be used to understand the levels of science gifted students' graph interpretation in oceanology, and to provide the basic data for improving the teaching and learning methods of oceanology and also provide basic data for teaching material development related to graph analysis.
Keywords
earth science; gifted students; science gifted high school; ocean; graph;
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