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http://dx.doi.org/10.5467/JKESS.2021.42.5.571

Middle School Students' Observational Features during Geological Field Trip  

Kang, Hyeonji (Department of Science Education, Ewha Womans University)
Shin, Donghee (Department of Science Education, Ewha Womans University)
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Journal of the Korean earth science society / v.42, no.5, 2021 , pp. 571-587 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study aims to investigate the problem recognition and clue capture processes of the observation stage in a geological field trip using abductive inquiry. To this end, eight outdoor geological programs were developed in the order of diagnostic evaluation, outdoor geological fieldwork, and review. Six middle-school students participated in these programs The geological field trip was conducted twice, followed by data provision, observation, rule generation, hypothesis generation, and final hypothesis presentation. Outdoor geological fieldwork recordings and student activity sheets were collected and analyzed qualitatively. From these data, three aspects of student observations emerged during the geological fieldwork: The characteristics of each pattern were subdivided into the geological importance of the clues, attention, type of clues, observation characteristics (attention factor), clue utilization, and clue deletion. Here, by combining these results, we propose educational applications that correspond to each aspect.
Keywords
geological fieldwork education; abductive inquiry; observation; geological clue;
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