• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.35 no.1
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• pp.131-142
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• 2015

The purposes of this study are to develop a measuring instrument for the analysis of science classroom culture from the perspective of Community of Practice (CoP) and to confirm its feasibility. We set the structural factors of CoP and developed preliminary questions through literature review. The validity and reliability of the instrument were examined and modified through the pilot survey participated by a total of 219, 4th, 6th, and 8th grade students. The modified instrument consisted of 5 factors of 'responsibility for learning', 'common interest', 'mutual relationships', 'open participation', and 'practice', comprising a total of 27 items. As the main survey, confirmatory factor analysis and reliability analysis of the instrument were carried out with a total 706 students of the 4th and 6th grade. This measuring instrument was validated and used for analyzing the culture of science classroom CoP of elementary school by comparing the data from the main survey in terms of structural factors, grade, gender, and teacher type. The measuring instrument is expected to be used not only for analyzing science classroom culture from the perspective of CoP, but also for offering implications for the desirable science classroom culture.

• KLA journal
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• v.12 no.8
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• pp.18-20
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• 1971

UNESCO와 ICSU(국제과학연맹 이사회)가 세계적인 과학 및 기술정보의 전달체제를 향상시키기 위한 국제기구로서 UNISIST(세계과학정보기구)의 설치를 인정하고 그 기구설치의 타당성 여부를 공동으로 조사 완료하였다. 따라서 그 조사에서 얻은 결론과 건의된 내용을 중심으로 Unesco bulletin for libraries Vol. XXV, No. 2,March April 1971에 소개한 글을 번역하여 게재한 것이다. 역자 주

• Journal of Science Education
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• v.36 no.2
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• pp.293-302
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• 2012

The purpose of this study was to analyze of the science examination of middle school 7th grade by Klopfer's taxonomy of educational objectives. A total of 645 test items from 10 middle schools were analyzed for this study. The examination items were analyzed according to the objectives of science education, such as behavior and contents area, question types, and the degree of difficulty. It was shown that, when the distribution of behavioral objectives was considered, the items emphasized knowledge and comprehension, and were scientific knowledge oriented. The tests consisted of multiple choice questions at a relatively high rate, compared to short answer questions. Comparing the rate of teachers' expectations to the degree of difficulty, the ratio of "top" was low and that of "medium" was high. The results of this study suggested that using various types of question and multiple levels of content and behavior enabled more effective evaluation of the diverse thinking powers and learning of the students.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.24 no.5
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• pp.946-958
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• 2004

The purpose of this study was to investigate factors in school science influencing students' attitudes toward science. In order to achieve the purpose, a total of 1,002 students at 5th, 7th, and 10th grade levels was sampled and surveys were carried out to examine attitudes toward science and reasons that students liked and disliked science. According to the results, male students liked science more than female students did at all grade levels and 10th graders liked science less than 5th and 7th graders did. The main reason that students liked science was experiments. And the main reason that students disliked science was science teaching methods including science activities, instructional materials, science textbooks and science teachers. Among the reasons that students liked science, factors that affected attitudes toward science were contents and characteristics of science subjects and experiments. Among the reasons that students disliked science, factors that affected attitudes toward science were experiments and science teaching methods. The results suggest that it is desirable to apply appropriate methods according to students' interests in science to develop positive attitudes toward science effectively.

• Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.64 no.6
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• pp.429-437
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• 2020

This study investigated a total of 529 integrated science teachers' implementation and changes to apply the curriculum-instruction-assessment. Data was collected through online survey on scientific competencies and skills, teaching-learning and assessment methods, changes of teacher's preparation, topics/materials, teaching-learning, and assessment to apply the curriculum-instruction-assessment as teaching integrated science. The results of the study were as follows: first, in the integrated science class, teachers implemented more on scientific communication and scientific inquiry among scientific core competencies, and analysis and interpretation of data collection and communication among scientific skills. Teachers often taught in lectures and used multiple choice items and short essay for evaluation. Teacher groups with less than 10 years of teaching experience appeared to be less active in teaching scientific core competencies and skills than those with more than 10 years. Second, Teachers have increased more time and efforts to search and to organize various materials in addition to textbooks, and try to integrated concepts in various fields to prepare learning topics and textbooks. Third, even though teachers made little change in implementing the process-oriented assessment, they used instructional strategies to increase student engagement in the integrated science class, restructured the instruction to provide immediate feedback after conducting the assessment. It is necessary to build a system that ensures fairness and credibility of evaluation while respecting the autonomy and professionalism of teachers.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.29 no.5
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• pp.492-500
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• 2009

The purpose of the study was to investigate middle school students' and teachers' perception of psychological learning environments as well as the differences between them. This study sampled 503 middle school students and the 16 teachers who taught them. 'Psychological Learning Environment Instrument by Science Teacher' was implemented to collect data. Frequency analysis and descriptive statistics, as well as t-test, ANOVA were used for basic analysis of data. There were statistically meaningful differences in students' perception of psychological learning environments by gender, science achievement, science preference and self-efficacy in science. However, there are no differences in teachers' perceptions of psychological learning environments by gender, age, career year and major. The difference between teachers' and students' perception of psychological learning environments was not large, showing no statistical significance. However, teachers' perceptions of psychological learning environments was a little higher than that of students.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.39 no.4
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• pp.535-544
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• 2019

In order to find out whether the traditional mass media in our society are sufficiently functioning as a vehicle of providing scientific information to the public outside the school education, public perception of science articles in mass media and scientific terms used in high frequency in science articles have been examined. To investigate the public perception on science articles, a questionnaire was constructed about the usefulness, importance, access frequency, and understanding of science articles. The questionnaires were conducted in areas with high flow populations such as train stations or subway stations. A total of 425 responses were used for analysis. In order to extract high frequency scientific terms used in science articles, two television companies and two newspapers were designated as target media, and their texts on science articles reported over the last 17 years were collected to investigate the frequency of scientific terms used. Based on the frequency, we conducted the self-report comprehension test for the top 100 scientific terms. The results of this study show that the public in our society has relatively high perception of the importance and usefulness of science articles, however, reading and understanding the articles seems to be somewhat difficult. In addition, the scientific terminology used in science articles has a high degree of comprehension for those of higher education, natural sciences majors, and men. In addition, scientific terms with high understanding degree were characterized according to gender, age, educational background, and field of major.

• Proceedings of the Korea Technology Innovation Society Conference
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• 1998.05a
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• pp.5-5
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• 1998

1980년대 이후 과학기술자들의 공동연구가 산학연 혹은 학제간 공동연구라는 형태로 활발히 진행되고 있고, 최근에는 네트워크이론으로 까지 발전하고 있다. 그런데 우리나라에서는 산학연 공동연구는 연구결과의 산업적인 활용 촉진을 위한다는 성격이 강해 세부적인 내용에 대한 연구가 비교적 활발했지만, 학제간 공동연구에 대한 연구는 거의 없다해도 과언이 아니다. 그럼에도 기술혁신학회와 같은 경우는 학제간 공동연구 촉진을 학회의 중요한 추진방향으로 잡고 있을 정도이다. 따라서 본 연구는 학제간 공동연구를 중심으로 국내 과학기술자들의 공동연구에 대한 인식이 무엇인가를 살펴보고자 한다. 본 연구에서는 공동연구를 수직적인 공동연구와 수평적인 공동연구로 나누고, 수평적인 공동연구를 학제간 연구라 규정한다. 또한 학제간 연구를 4개의 유형으로 구분해 과학기술자들의 인식과 행태가 어떻게 나타나고 있는지를 분석한다. 분석대상은 과학기술계 전 분야의 3,184명에 대한 설문조사 결과이다.

• 방재와보험
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• s.110
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• pp.30-37
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• 2005

가정에서 사용되는 가전기기 중에서도 특히 소비전력이 높은 모발건조기는 물리적 충격에 약하고, 물기 등에 노출되는 경우 순식간에 고열이 발생해 화재로 이어질 가능성이 큰것으로 나타났다. 모발건조기의 부주의한 방치로 인한 화재의 확산 패턴 및 과학적 조사 기법을 통해 쉽게 노출되는 전기안전 사고의 방지에 경각심을 일깨워야 할 때이다.

• The Science & Technology
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• v.14 no.1 s.140
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• pp.12-13
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• 1981