• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.342-355
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• 2006

The purpose of this study was to develop a classification scheme for laboratory instruction, which could occupy a central and distinctive role in science education. For this study, literature on laboratory instruction types were analyzed. Utilizing several of these theoretical frameworks, a Classification Scheme for Laboratory Instruction (CSLI), which clearly represents various features of laboratory instruction, was created. The developed CSLI consisted of two descriptors: one is the procedure for laboratory instruction, and the other is a way of approach. The procedure is either designed by the students or provided for them from an external source. A dichotomy also exists for the approach taken toward the activity: deductive or inductive. Validity was established for the CSLI. In addition, laboratory instruction according to CSLI was divided into four types: verification, discovery, exploratory, and investigation. Although this study demonstrated only limited features of laboratory instruction due to the absence of a field test, it serves as a model for more comprehensive studies.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.33 no.7
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• pp.1354-1366
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• 2013

The purpose of this study was to analyze the types of teachers' questioning between verification laboratory instruction and discovery laboratory instruction. Results were that there was no difference in questioning types in verification laboratory instruction and discovery laboratory instruction. Most teachers in two types of laboratory instruction used closed questionings more than open-ended questioning. This shows that teachers' laboratory instruction processes are focusing on 'get the content' rather than consideration of the characteristics of laboratory instruction types. Such results show that the teachers in verification laboratory instruction and discovery laboratory instruction provide little opportunity for children to improve in scientific thinking. Therefore, teachers should make good plans with a questioning strategy that can be adapted to the types and characteristic of laboratory instruction. If teacher's questioning is practiced well in the science class, it can improve students' scientific thinking and science laboratory instruction.

• Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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• v.35 no.4
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• pp.549-563
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• 2000

본 연구는 전통적인 교사위주의 설명식 수업을 벗어나 인터넷을 학습에 보다 효과적으로 활용하는 방법을 모색해 보고자 하는 것이다. 이를 위해 인터넷을 통하여 정보를 수집한 후에 그 내용을 재구성하여 홈페이지를 구축한 후 실험수업을 실시하였다. 실험수업의 결과 전통적인 수업반보다 인터넷 홈페이지를 활용한 수업반 학생들의 학업성취수준이 훨씬 높게 나타났다. 한편 인터넷 홈페이지를 활용한 실험수업밥의 겨우 구조적 수업반에 비해 비구조적 수업반 학생들의 학습성취도가 더 높게 나타났으나 그 차이는 유의적이지 않았다. 또한 수업 흥미도, 만족도, 학습의욕 등에도 실험반 학생들은 상당히 긍정적인 평가를 보였다. 본 연구를 통해 지리수업의 학습효과를 높이고 학생들의 흥미도를 높이기 위해서는 인터넷을 활용하는 수업형태가 바람직하다는 결과를 도출하였다. 특히 본 연구를 통해 앞으로 학생들의 학업성취도와 흥미도를 높이기 위해 인터넷을 수업에 활용하는 교수-학습설계의 개발이 필요함을 보여 주었다.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.235-241
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• 2007

The purpose of this study was to identify the main laboratory instruction types with Classification Scheme of Laboratory Instruction (CSLI) in elementary and secondary schools science. For the purpose, the validity of the instrument CSLI was 4.23 and laboratory instructions were collected in 100 elementary schools and 30 secondary schools. Before analyzing the collected laboratory instructions, the inter-rater reliability about the analysis results was identified as 0.91. The results of this study were found that in elementary school, the main laboratory instruction types were verification type and discovery type and in secondary school were discovery type and verification type. In the category of the procedure, a large part of the procedures of laboratory activity in both elementary and secondary schools was given to students by worksheets or teachers themselves. In the category of approach, inductive approach was the main in elementary and deductive approach in secondary.

• Journal of Science Education
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.79-86
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• 2013

The purpose of this study was to investigate the middle science teachers' perceptions on science lessons with experiments. The study conducted a survey for 110 science teachers participating in inservice program. The middle school science teachers taught classes with lectures rather than with experimental activities. They had an experiment one to three times a semester in their lessons. They did an experiment to follow to what the textbook said, or to confirm it, like a cookbook style. The most teachers answered that they had over average ability to teach both lecture and experiment. Through the experiment, they expected students had interests and curiosity on science. Despite the advantages of experiments, there were many constraints to conduct experiments, such as teachers' excessive work, laboratory conditions, education environment, and others. It was demanded on continuous interest and investment in the variation of educational environment so that teachers can experiment more often.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.331-339
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• 2008

The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of microcomputer-based laboratory (MBL) with the traditional laboratory experiment on science classes in middle school. MBL tools were developed and applied for five experiment subjects chosen from middle school science textbook for MBL experiment classes, while usual experiment methods suggested in the textbook were used in traditional experiment classes. In order to evaluate the effects of MBL experiment class, achievement, graphic ability, science process skills, affective aspect related to science were tested before and after applying the MBL experiment. The result revealed that MBL experiment class was more effective than traditional experiment class in improving student's science achievement, science process skills, and graphic ability. The result also indicated that there was a significant difference between experiment and control group with regards to the effect on affective aspect related to science. From the above result, we can find the positive implication of applicability of MBL experiment as a new experiment tool at the early stage of introduction in a real context.

• Journal of Korean Elementary Science Education
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.287-296
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• 2004

The purposes of this study were to analyze the problems of elementary science instruction, especially in experiment and observation, and suggest the directions to improve current elementary science instruction in terms of teaching methods and strategies. Data from instructions implemented by 7 elementary teachers were used to extract the problem of elementary science instruction. According to the results of instruction observation, such problems as follows are identified: 1) shortage of discussion regarding results of students' activities, 2) insufficiency of interactions among teacher-student/student-student, 3) shortage of guidance for students on observation, 4) absence of explanation on apparatus, 5) teachers' insufficient knowledge on science, 6) inappropriate use of teacher-made worksheets. Desirable directions for the improvement of present elementary science instruction were proposed.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.89-97
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• 1989

어떤 현상에 대한 학생들의 수업전 개념구조가 과학자들의 그것과 다를때 이 수업전개념을 간단한 정성적인 퀴즈를 통하여 학생 스스로 인식하게 하고 실험 또는 관찰을 통하여 학생 자신의 수업전개념 보다는 과학자들의 개념이 실험결과를 더 잘 설명할 수 있다는 것을 깨닫게 함으로써 학생들의 수업전 개념구조를 변화시키려는 교수모델을 고안하여 그 효과를 검토하였다. 고등학교 1학년 남학생 115 명(실험집단 58명, 비교집단 57명)과 고등학교 2학년 여학생 120명(실험집단 59명, 비교집단 61명)을 대상으로 뉴우턴 제2법칙에 대한 학습에 적용하고 2주후에 뉴우턴 제2법칙에 관한 시험(13문항)을 실시하였다. 그 결과, 퀴즈에 사용한 것과 유사한 상황을 다룬 문제에서는 실험집단의 성적이 비교집단의 성적보다 유의하게 높았다. 그러나, 같은 개념을 다루나 새로운 상황의 문제에서는 그 효과가 유의한 차이를 나타내지 않았다. 한가지 개념이 여러가지 새로운 상황속에 나타날때 학생들에게 이미 친숙한 상황과 새로운 상황사이의 유사점을 강조하며 위의 교수법을 계속하여 사용한다면 학생들의 뿌리깊이 밝힌 수업전 개념구조를 변화시킬 수 있으리라 사료된다. 위의 교수법은 학생들이 자신의 수업전 개념구조를 명확히 인식하고 그 불합리함을 깨달아야 하므로 자신의 수업전 개념구조에 근거하여 어떤 결과를 예측할 수 있는 예측논리(Expectation or biconditional Reasoning)가 형성된 이후의 학생들에게만 효과가 있으리라 가정하였으나 교수방법과 예측논리 사이에 유의한 상호작용효과(interaction offect)는 나타나지 않았다. 다만 여학생의 경우에서만 학생들에게 새로운 상황의 문제에서도 예측논리를 이미 형성한 실험집단의 평균이 이에 상응하는 비교집단의 평균보다 높았다. 이것은 남학생과 여학생을 지도한 교사의 교수경력과 학생들의 수업전 개념구조에 대한 교사의 인식정도에 큰 차이가 있었음을 고려할 때, 위의 수업방법을 사용하는 데 있어 교사가 학생들의 수업전 개념구조가 학생들의 개념획득에 얼마나 커다란 영향을 끼치는가에 대해 인식하는 것이 중요한 요인임을 시사한다.

• Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.66 no.3
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• pp.218-227
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• 2022

The purpose of this study is to analyze the opinions of students by using the text mining to the good points and improvements among the descriptive course evaluation written by the students who participated in the university chemistry laboratory class, and to derive the improvement for the class. We analyzed the frequency of occurrence, co-occurrence and network of key words. As a result of the study, in the network of good points in the class, the most frequent mentions were made between class and professor, along with explanation, understanding, student, passion, fun, TA, experiment, help, etc. In the network of improvements in the class, the most frequent mentions were made between class and student, along with professor, content, explanation, exam, wish, experiment, understanding, difficult, thought, problem, etc. In other words, the students suggested the opinion that the contents of the class were well understood and that they felt fun and satisfied with the experimental process due to 'easy and detailed explanation' and 'TA's assistance' as good points of the class. On the other hand, the students suggested the negative opinions that the understanding and concentration in the class was decreased due to 'difficulty of content and exam', 'excessive assignments', and 'class environment' as improvements of the class.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.306-319
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• 2012

The purpose of this study was to investigate high school students' learning style, perception of types of laboratory instruction, and the relationship between the learning style and preferred type of laboratory instruction. The participants of this study were 19 female high school students, from Incheon in Korea, who showed outstanding science grades. Dunn et al's revised Learning Styles Inventory (1997) was used for testing students' learning style. The students were asked to choose preferred and not preferred types of experiments and describe the reason of the choices after implementation of 4 types of experiments: verification, discovery, explorator, and investigation laboratory instructions. The findings of this study were as follows: Firstly, the students had a certain common learning style irrelevant to their personal characteristics, i. e; they showed high (self, teacher, parents) motivation and structure stimuli that was common in Korean students. Second, outstanding students prefer unstructured and open laboratory instructions. And those students were highly influenced by sociological and emotional stimuli. Third, students' learning style was related to their preferred type of laboratory instruction. Students preferring unstructured and open laboratory were influenced by sociological and emotional stimuli, while those preferring structured and closed laboratory were influenced by physiological stimuli.