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http://dx.doi.org/10.5467/JKESS.2020.41.5.520

Analysis of Students' Understanding of the Terms Presented on the Information Board of Jinan-Muju National Geopark  

Cho, Kyu Seong (Division of Science Education/Science Education Institute, Jeonbuk National University)
Park, Kyeong-Jin (Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation)
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Journal of the Korean earth science society / v.41, no.5, 2020 , pp. 520-530 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate students' understanding of the terms presented on the information board in the Jinan-Muju National Geopark. To this end, a survey was conducted with 219 students (147 elementary, 41 middle, and 31 high school students) to determine the level of their perceptions of the geopark, and of the usefulness of the information board, and their understanding of the terms presented on the information boards of the National Geopark. To determine the students' understanding of terms, 10 representative information boards were selected and the entire content was converted into text. Afterwards, 256 key terms were extracted from the text through discussions with three experts, and these terms were presented to students to grasp their level of understanding. The results were as follows: First, the level of students' perceptions about the geopark was very low, so publicity and educational approaches are needed. Second, students were not interested in the information board and had a low level of understanding owing to the large amount of information and reading difficulties. Third, among the 256 terms, the number of terms that students found difficult to understand tended to decrease with increasing school grade: 80 for elementary school students, 53 for middle school students, and 31 for high school students. The reason the students had difficulty in understanding terms was that elementary school students had not yet learned the terms in the curriculum, whereas middle and high school students have difficulty understanding technical terms and Chinese characters. Therefore, the information board in the geopark will need to be easily translated into Chinese characters or additional explanations of technical terms need to be provided so that visitors can understand the concepts more easily.
Keywords
National Geopark; Information board; Terms; Understanding;
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