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http://dx.doi.org/10.15523/JKSESE.2021.14.1.1

Understanding of Middle School Students' Representational Competence in Learning in Geological Field Trip with Scientific Modeling  

Choi, Yoon-Sung (Department of Earth Science Education, Seoul National University)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Earth Science Education / v.14, no.1, 2021 , pp. 1-20 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to understand students' representational competence while they engaged in learning in geological field trips with scientific models and modeling(Mt. Gwanak and the Hantan-river were formed). Ten students agreed to participate in this study voluntarily. They were attending the Institute of Gifted Education in the Seoul Metropolitan area. The data were collected for all students' activities during field trips and modeling activities using simultaneous video and voice recording, the interview after classes, written data(note) made by the students. The analysis framework that distinguished levels of representational competence and added the resulting interpretation with the final models in the process of scientific models. Results suggested that representational competence levels varied from one to six. However, students showed relatively low levels of representational competence in outdoor learning environments than indoor learning environments. In other words, it began with a relatively low level of representational competence in outdoor class. Then students developed a higher level of representational competence indoor class. Ultimately, we need to understand students' representational competence implies a tool to explain phenomena in the process of modeling activities.
Keywords
representational competence; scientific models and modeling; learning in geological field trip;
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