• Journal of Science Education
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• v.43 no.1
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• pp.79-93
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• 2019

There have been great concerns on induction, deduction, abduction, and hypothetical deductive method as scientific method and logic behind the method. However, as seen from the similar logic structure of abduction and hypothetical deductive method logic, distinction of those four terms could be unclear. This study investigates statements of science instruction textbooks concerning those terms to analyze their meaning as scientific method or in the context of inquiry. For this purpose, related statements are extracted from seven textbooks to investigate the definitions and examples of those terms and relation among these terms by focusing on coherence of usage of the terms and the possibility of clear distinction among the terms. We find that those terms do not have coherent meanings in the textbooks and many statements make it hard to distinguish the meanings of the terms. Finally the origin of the confusion and educational implication is discussed.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.34 no.4
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• pp.375-383
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• 2014

The purpose of this study is to find out how middle school students evaluate scientific information in terms of hypothetico-deductive reasoning. A total of 66 middle school students completed a paper-and-pencil test on scientific information evaluation and 14 of them were individually interviewed for triangulation. The test includes six topics related to scientific or pseudoscientific information, and questions about each topic were sequenced based on a hypothetico-deductive reasoning. The hypothetico-deductive process consists of three steps: identifying predictions made by explanations in the information, identifying data actually obtained, and determining the fit between predictions and data to judge the validity of the explanations. Data analyses have focused on students' response types at each step, whether students used hypoethetico-deductive reasoning, and students' preference to evidence types in making decisions. The middle school students in this study answered the questions in various ways based on how they used the information given or personal knowledge and beliefs. A small portion of students evaluated information based on hypothetico-deductive reasoning. These students tended to give priority to scientific data in determining the validity of the information. On the other hand, students who did not use hypoethetico-deductive reasoning tended to prefer first-hand experience in the decision. The results provide implications for science lessons and the curriculum for scientific literacy. Further research should include student evaluation of the validity of data and other types of reasoning.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.225-234
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• 2007

This research was conducted with an intention to develop a teaching program that possesses a goal of elevating higher thinking ability within the science class and to investigate its effect. The hypothetico-deductive teaching model was developed and its' program was designed to be directly put into the practical use, and apply it in class. The application of the hypothetico-deductive teaching program had a positive effect in the improvement of students' creative thinking ability and critical thinking ability. And it had a positive influence on scientific attitudes. After completing the program the opinions of the students who participated in this research by a poll were gathered and analyzed. The students felt uneasy and had a lot of difficulties during the program activity because they had to keep on thinking newly, critically, and scientifically, but they admitted that they gained the ability to think on their own when the program was completed.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.1-17
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• 1998

What does mean the statement that scientific reasoning is logical? In this study, we clarify the logical structure of the scientific explanation, prediction and the process of hypothesis testing. To simplify and identify the structure of scientific explanations and prediction more clearly, we used syllogism and presented various concrete examples. Especially, we showed that the logical structure of scientific explanation was well reflected in dynamics. Based on this analysis, it can be said that the deficit of students' understanding of dynamics is because that many scientific activities are focused on prediction rather than explanation. To explain the process of hypothesis testing, we reinterpreted the Wason's selection task as two stages: the process of prediction of experimental phenomena based on the presented hypothesis, and the process of the hypothesis testing based on the predicted experimental phenomena. And we suggested the reason of the logical fallacy of 'affirming the consequent' in science was because that many scientific relationships between the variables is one-to-one relationship, and compared this suggestion with the Lawon's multiple hypothesis theory. To check out the effect of content on the deductive reasoning, we reviewed some researches about psychology and psychology of science. And to understand the role of deductive reasoning in student's scientific activities, we reviewed researches about the analysis of students' responses in the task of conceptual change or evaluation of evidence and so on.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.169-179
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• 2007

We investigated the effects of hypothetical deductive experiment on students' views about the nature of science (NOS). Participants were 212 eighth graders from a middle school and they were assigned to a control group and an experimental group. Students of the control group did guided experiment in small group and students of the experimental group did hypothetical deductive experiment in small group. The results revealed that both students of the control group and the experimental group possessed similar views about NOS in a pretest. But the experimental group exhibited more sophisticated views about the theory of dependance of observation, scientific reasoning and hypothesis in the posttest. Students who used mainly surface learning strategy within the experimental group exhibited more sophisticated views about hypothesis in the posttest. On the other hand, students who used mainly deep learning strategy within the experimental group exhibited more sophisticated views about the theory of dependance of observation, scientific reasoning and hypothesis in the posttest.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.327-335
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• 2005

This study investigates student achievement and science-related attitudes on STS hypothetical deductive instruction strategy in the water section of high school chemistry. Two 11th grade co-ed high school classes participated in the study; one control group and one treatment group. After being taught for 10 class periods during the second semester. ANCOVA analysis revealled no significant difference (p>.05) between two groups' achievement tests. However, analysis by ANCOVA did show that the scores for science-related attitudes in the treatment group were significantly higher than those of the control group (p<.05). In particular, the scores of science learning contents and science value about science-related attitude were significantly higher in the treatment group.

• Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.1-27
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• 2014

In the present study, we analyze the four participating 9th grade students' mathematical reasoning processes in their dragging activities while solving open-ended geometry problems in terms of abduction, induction and deduction. The results of the analysis are as follows. First, the students utilized 'abduction' to adopt their hypotheses, 'induction' to generalize them by examining various cases and 'deduction' to provide warrants for the hypotheses. Secondly, in the abduction process, 'wandering dragging' and 'guided dragging' seemed to help the students formulate their hypotheses, and in the induction process, 'dragging test' was mainly used to confirm the hypotheses. Despite of the emerging mathematical reasoning via their dragging activities, several difficulties were identified in their solving processes such as misunderstanding shapes as fixed figures, not easily recognizing the concept of dependency or path, not smoothly proceeding from probabilistic reasoning to deduction, and trapping into circular logic.

• Proceedings of the Korea Database Society Conference
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• 1999.06a
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• pp.115-123
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• 1999

산업계 전반에 걸친 오랜 정보시스템 운용의 결과로 대용량의 데이타들이 축적되고 있다. 이러한 데이타로부터 유용한 지식을 추출하기 위해 여러 가지 데이타 마이닝 기법들이 연구되어왔다. 특히 데이타 웨어하우스의 등장은 이러한 데이타 마이닝에 있어 필요한 데이타 제공 환경을 제공해 주고 있다. 그러나 전문가의 적절한 판단과 해석을 거치지 않은 데이타 마이닝의 결과는 당연한 사실이거나, 사실과 다른 가짜이거나 또는 관련성이 없는(trivial, spurious and irrelevant) 내용만 무수히 쏟아낼 수 있다. 그러므로 데이타 마이닝의 결과가 비록 통계적 유의성을 가진다 하더라고 그 정당성과 유용성에 대한 검증과정과 방법론의 정립이 필요하다. 데이타 마이닝의 가장 어려운 점은 귀납적 오류를 없애기 위해 사람이 직접 그 결과를 해석하고 판단하며 아울러 새로운 탐색 방향을 제시해야 한다는 것이다. 본 논문의 목적은 이러한 데이타 마이닝에서 추출된 결과를 검증하고 아울러 새로운 지식 탐색 방향을 제시하는 방법론을 정립하는데 있다. 본 논문에서는 데이타 마이닝 기법 중 연관규칙탐사로 얻어진 결과를 설명가능성 여부의 판단을 통해 검증하는 기법을 제안하며, 이를 통해 얻어진 검증된 지식을 토대로 일반화를 통한 새로운 가설을 생성하여 데이타 웨어하우스로부터 연관규칙을 검증하는 일련의 아키텍쳐(architecture)를 제시하고자 한다. 먼저 데이타 마이닝 결과에 대한 설명의 필요성을 제시하고, 데이타 웨어하우스와 데이타 마이닝 기법들에 대한 간략한 설명과 연관규칙탐사에 대한 정의 및 방법을 보이고, 대상 영역에 대한 데이타 웨어하우스의 스키마를 보였다. 다음으로 도메인 지식(domain knowledge)과 연관규칙탐사를 통해 얻어진 결과를 표현하기 위한 지식표현 방법으로 Relational predicate Logic을 제안하였다. 연관규칙탐사로 얻어진 결과를 설명하기 위한 방법으로는 연관규칙탐사로 얻어진 연관규칙에 대해 Relational Predicate Logic으로 표현된 도메인 지식으로서 설명됨을 보이게 한다. 또한 이러한 설명(explanation)을 토대로 검증된 지식을 일반화하여 새로운 가설을 연역적으로 생성하고 이를 연관규칙탐사론 통해 검증한 후 새로운 지식을 얻는 반복적인 Explanation-based Data Mining Architecture를 제시하였다. 본 연구의 의의로는 데이타 마이닝을 통한 귀납적 지식생성에 있어 귀납적 오류의 발생을 고메인 지식을 통해 설명가능 함을 보임으로 검증하고 아울러 이러한 설명을 통해 연역적으로 새로운 가설지식을 생성시켜 이를 가설검증방식으로 검증함으로써 귀납적 접근과 연역적 접근의 통합 데이타 마이닝 접근을 제시하였다는데 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Inteligent Information System Society Conference
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• 1999.03a
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• pp.115-123
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• 1999

산업계 전반에 걸친 오랜 정보시스템 운용의 결과로 대용량의 데이터들이 축적되고 있다. 이러한 데이터로부터 유용한 지식을 추출하기 위해 여러 가지 데이터 마이닝 기법들이 연구되어왔다. 특히 데이터 웨어하우스의 등장은 이러한 데이터 마이닝에 있어 필요한 데이터 제공 환경을 제공해 주고 있다. 그러나 전문가의 적절한 판단과 해석을 거치지 않은 데이터 마이닝의 결과는 당연한 사실이거나, 사실과 다른 가짜이거나 또는 관련성 없는(trivial, spurious and irrelevant)내용만 무수히 쏟아낼 수 있다. 그러므로 데이터 마이닝의 결과가 비록 통계적 유의성을 가진다 하더라도 그 정당성과 유용성에 대한 검증과정과 방법론의 정립이 필요하다. 데이터 마이닝의 가장 어려운 점은 귀납적 오류를 없애기 위해 사람이 직접 그 결과를 해석하고 판단하며 아울러 새로운 탐색 방향을 제시해야 한다는 것이다. 본 논문에서는 데이터 마이닝 기법 중 연관규칙탐사로 얻어진 결과를 설명가능성 여부의 판단을 통해 검증하는 기법을 제안하며, 이를 통해 얻어진 검증된 지식을 토대로 일반화를 통한 새로운 가설을 생성하여 데이터 웨어하우스로부터 연관규칙을 검증하는 일련의 아텍쳐(architecture)를 제시하고다 한다. 먼저 데이터 마이닝 결과에 대한 설명의 필요성을 제시하고, 데이터 웨어하우스와 데이터 마이닝 기법들에 대한 간략한 설명과 연관규칙탐사에 대한 정의 및 방법을 보이고, 대상 영역에 대한 데이터 웨어하우스으 스키마를 보였다. 다음으로 도메인 지식(domain knowledge)과 연관규칙탐사를 통해 얻어진 결과를 표현하기위한 지식표현 방법으로 Relational Predicate Logic을 제안하였다. 연관규칙탐사로 얻어진 결과를 설명하기 위한 방법으로는 연관규칙탐사로 얻어진 연관규칙에 대해 Relational Predicate Logic으로 표현된 도메인 지식으로서 설명됨을 보이게 한다. 또한 이러한 설명(explanation)을 토대로 검증된 지식을 일반화하여 새로운 가설을 연역적으로 생성하고 이를 연관규칙탐사를 통해 검증한 후 새로운 지식을 얻는 반복적인 Explanation-based Data Mining Architecture를 제시하였다. 본 연구의 의의로는 데이터 마이닝을 통한 귀납적 지식생성에 있어 귀납적 오류의 발생을 도메인 지식을 통해 설명가능 함을 보임으로 검증하고 아울러 이러한 설명을 통해 연역적으로 새로운 가설지식을 생성시켜 이를 가설검증방식으로 검증함으로써 귀납적 접근과 연역적 접근의 통합 데이터 마이닝 접근을 제시하였다는데 있다.

• Journal of Korean Elementary Science Education
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• v.42 no.1
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• pp.109-126
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• 2023

In this study, I took the evidence-explanation (E-E) continuum perspective to examine the epistemological implications of scientific reasoning cases designed by preservice elementary teachers during their simulation teaching. The participants were four preservice teachers who conducted simulation instruction on the seasons and high/low air pressure and wind. The selected discourse episodes, which included cases of inductive, deductive, or abductive reasoning, were analyzed for their epistemological implications-specifically, the role played by the reasoning cases in the E-E continuum. The two preservice teachers conducting seasons classes used hypothetical-deductive reasoning when they identified evidence by comparing student-group data and tested a hypothesis by comparing the evidence with the hypothetical statement. However, they did not adopt explicit reasoning for creating the hypothesis or constructing a model from the evidence. The two preservice teachers conducting air pressure and wind classes applied inductive reasoning to find evidence by summarizing the student-group data and adopted linear logic-structured deductive reasoning to construct the final explanation. In teaching similar topics, the preservice teachers showed similar epistemic processes in their scientific reasoning cases. However, the epistemological implications of the instruction were not similar in terms of the E-E continuum. In addition, except in one case, the teachers were neither good at abductive reasoning for creating a hypothesis or an explanatory model, nor good at using reasoning to construct a model from the evidence. The E-E continuum helps in examining the epistemological implications of scientific reasoning and can be an alternative way of transmitting scientific reasoning.