• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.144-152
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• 2007

In this study, high school science teachers' and students' various conceptions related to osmosis phenomena were compared with and analyzed in relation to the content of science textbooks used in high school science classrooms and college science courses. The questionnaires developed by the researchers were administered to science teachers and students. Differences can be found between the explanations of science textbooks on osmotic pressure and semi-permeable membranes. Many science teachers and students thought of osmotic pressure as 'membrane pressure occurred by the movement of a solvent'. Moreover, the types of teachers of semi-permeable membranes were similar regardless of their academic majors. Many of the teachers thought of a semi-permeable membrane as a membrane that 'passes small-size particles'; however, many students thought of this type of membrane as being 'selectively permeable'. Also, the salt-pickling cabbage phenomenon seemed to cause significant confusion to science teachers and students. These study results show that teachers and students possess various conceptions related to the osmosis phenomena. These different conceptions related to osmosis phenomena might cause confusion and diverse conceptions including misconceptions among teachers and students.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.103-118
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• 1992

Quality control of science teachers seems to be one of the most important tasks to improve the quality of science education in Korea. The purposes of this study, as a survey, were to identify characteristics of good science teachers and to make an outline of preservice teacher education curriculum for cultivating the characteristics from inserivce secondary science teachers. A questionnaire was developed for this study and distributed to 176 inservice teachers. It had three parts: 1) characteristics of good science teachers, 2) weights of preservice curriclum areas, and 3) weights of college courses. The means and standard deviations of teachers' responses were calculated. To test the differences between teacher variables, t-tests were executed. The inservice teachers perceived that the junior-high school teacher's characteristics should be different from the senior-high school teacher's. Characteristics, such as enthusiasm toward teaching or students, subject knowledge, content selection and organizing skill, teaching techniques, and scientific worldview were ranked within top five of good science teacher's chracteristics. The teachers' perception about preservice curriculum were as follows: 1) present weight of liberal arts area should be reduced: 2) weight of content area for junior-high school teachers should be different from that for senior-high school teachers: 3) present weight of pedagogy area should be increased: 4) present weight of science education area should be increased: and 5) many courses in pedagogy and sciencd education areas need to be changed, Based on the data and disussion, a conceptual model for preservice teacher education curriculum was proposed.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제35권3호
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• pp.363-374
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• 2015

본 연구의 목적은 고등학교 과학 교과에서 추출한 학습 내용과 사범대학 예비과학교사 교재에서 추출한 교육내용을 비교하여 그 연관성을 분석하고자 하였다. 이를 위해 소위 융합형 과학으로 불리는 고등학교 과학 교과서 7종과 물리, 화학, 생물, 지구과학 등 4개 과학 분야에서 사용하고 있는 11종 사범대학 예비과학교사 교재를 분석하였다. 고등학교 과학의 교육 내용과 예비과학교사 교재의 교육내용을 비교 분석한 결과, 관련성이 있는 것을 알 수 있었다. 특히 '에너지와 환경' 단원은 가장 많은 예비과학교사 교육내용이 포함된 것으로 나타났다. 그러나 전체 고등학교 과학 교과 내용의 86.6% 정도가 사범대학 4개 분야의 교재에 소개되고 있을 뿐 나머지는 예비교사들이 스스로 공부해야 하는 부담을 갖는 것으로 나타났다. 심지어 일부 학습내용들은 그 내용 수준이 사범대학 예비과학교사 교육내용보다 높은 것을 확인 할 수 있었다. 게다가 또 다른 일부 학습내용들은 공학과 기술 영역에 포함되어, 이를 대비하기 위한 별도의 교사교육이 필요하다. 위와 같은 내용을 종합했을 때, 고등학교 과학 교과의 교육내용을 적정화 할 필요가 있다. 또한 본 교과를 가르칠 교사와 예비교사들을 위해 다양한 교육 프로그램을 개발할 필요가 있으며, 예비과학교사들이 과학을 지도할 수 있도록 도울 수 있는 사범대학 교육과정이 개편이 필요하다.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.43-52
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• 1986

It is the purpose at thus survey to get hold at problems in teaching integrated science in middle school. For this purpose, problems and suggestions were collected by questionnaire which were made out by middle school science teachers. Through the analysis of the questionnaire, it was found that the present curriculum of science education in the college of education and the in-service training program were not suitable for training middle school science teacher. Form the results of the analysis, this survey concluded that the curriculum and program mentioned above need improvement as follows. (1) science education curriculum in the college of education should be set up with two part. One is the part that middle school science teachers are trained and the other is the part that high school science teachers are trained. (2) In-service training program should be set off into two kinds. One is the program that middle school science teachers are trained and the other program that high school science teachers are trained.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.226-241
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• 2007

The purpose of this study was to elucidate elementary school teachers' pedagogical content knowledge regarding the subject of "weight and pressure in water". 6 elementary teachers in charge of the 6th grade were selected for this study. The 7 hour lessons were observed over $15{\sim}20$ days, and a variety of data including scenarios, questionnaires for teachers, interviews of teachers were analyzed. As a result of this study, teachers who had long career histories thought that the purpose of teaching science was to teach the use of science principles, and teachers who had only taught for a relatively short time thought the purpose was satisfying students' curiosity. Most of the teachers felt that the science content knowledge related to buoyancy was insufficient. They had acquired most of the science content knowledge from teaming experiences in middle and high schools. The pre-service teacher education programs didn't help them to satisfactorily acquire the science content knowledge under analysis here. Most of the teachers taught the science lessons according to the order of sequence as shown in the science textbook. They didn't teach the contents that they thought were needed if they were not already included in the science textbook. Only one teacher who had taken science courses in high school managed the science classes freely according to his own thoughts and opinions. From the results of this research, it could be concluded that most elementary school teachers did not have enough pedagogical content knowledge to teach their students effectively.

• 한국환경교육학회지:환경교육
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.65-83
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• 2007

The purpose of this study was to survey science teachers, perception and attitudes on disposal of school laboratory waste water and materials. To fulfill this aim, a questionnaire was administered to 244 secondary school science teachers. The result of this study revealed that there was no large disparity in the degree of understanding of laboratory waste disposal and the laboratory waste water treatment, and in secondary science teachers' perception and practicing attitude on the environment. While science teachers had deep understanding of laboratory waste disposal and its influence on environmental pollution, they expressed less positive attitude toward the actual disposal of waste materials and waste water, and participation in teacher training. Therefore, it is necessary to provide standards of systematized disposal methods and proper disposal facilities in middle and high school laboratories, as well as to investigate teachers' needs before providing teacher training program.

• 한국지구과학회지
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• 제43권4호
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• pp.557-566
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• 2022

The purpose of this study was to examine the status of the field application of the Science II career electives with the application of the 2015 revised curriculum up to the 3rd year of high school. This study focused on examining high school science teachers' perceptions of the student-participatory class and process-centered assessment in Science II subjects, which are career-intensive high school science electives. A total of 192 science teachers responded to the survey questionnaire, and 12 teachers participated in interviews. In the in-depth interviews conducted to supplement the survey results, questions were asked about changes in the overall class, the status of student-participatory classes, and changes in the assessment of Science II subjects due to the emphasis on process-centered assessment. The main research results included teachers' perceptions of changes in teaching and assessment methods with the application of the revised curriculum, the degree to which the eight skills used in Science II classes develop the key competencies of science, and the teaching and assessment methods commonly used in Science II classes. Science teachers generally agreed with the purpose and necessity of introducing student-participatory classes and process-centered assessment, which are the core purpose of the 2015 revised curriculum. However, they had difficulties in practice due to the excessive content of Science II subjects. Problems were also encountered with securing objectivity and fairness during assessments and the operation of online science classes due to COVID-19.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.740-749
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• 2002

본 연구는 과학교과서에 대한 중학교 교사와 학생들의 인식을 알아보기 위해 시도되었다. 먼저, 교사 및 학생의 인구학적 변인에 따른 교과서 인식의 차이를 알아보고, 교사 학생의 교수 학습관에 따른 교과서관의 관계를 알아보고, 마지막으로 교사와 학생간의 교과서 인식의 차이를 알아보았다. 연구목적에 따른 연구문제와 연구가설을 설정하고, 설정된 가설을 검증하기 위한 설문지를 개발하였으며, 대구 경북지역의 중학교 과학교사 113명과 중학생 715명을 대상으로 연구를 수행하였다. 통계기법으로는 주로 일원변량분석을 실시하였고, 교사와 학생간의 교과서 인식 차이를 알아보기 위해서는 t검증을 실시하였다. 본 연구의 결과를 바탕으로 한 결론은 다음과 같다. 중학교 교사의 인구학적 변인 중 교과서에 대한 인식의 차이를 나타내는 변인은 학교소재와 학급규모이었고, 교사의 연령, 성에 따라서는 별 차이가 없었다. 중학교 학생의 인구학적 변인 중 교과서에 대한 인식의 차이를 나타내는 변인은 학교소재와 남녀공학여부, 학급규모, 학년이었고, 성에 따라서는 차이가 없었다. 상대주의적 교수관을 가진 교사나 상대주의적 학습관을 가진 학생이 교과서의 지식을 상대적으로 보았으며, 학생중심의 교과서를 선호하였다. 교사들은 학생들보다 더 학생 중심으로 서술된 교과서를 선호하였고, 절대주의적인 지식관과 교수 학습관을 가지고 있는 것으로 나타났다. 그리고, 학생들은 교사들보다 더 전자교과서를 선호하였다.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.405-413
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• 1997

High school common science is introduced by the sixth national curriculum. It consists of physics, chemistry, biology and earth science like the secondary school science. In this paper, textbooks are analyzed by the science teachers and the status of the present teaching and learning methods is reported. The detailed results are as follows; 1. Almost high school teachers choose textbook that included little the STS material. More than two teachers are teaching the high school common science and when they are chosen, they are independent with their major. 2. According to the national curriculum, they evaluated the textbooks as it is below the middle level. This evaluations are not dependent on teachers' comparement and textbook's class except the several matters based on STS (science-technology-society). 3. The teacher teaching the high school common science thought that teaching the textbook in school is worse than analysizing it. they must have emphasised on learning of inquire method than system of knowledge, introduction to material connected with real life and STS in the high school common science.

• 한국지구과학회지
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• 제34권5호
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• pp.435-449
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• 2013

The purpose of this study was to investigate the difference of teachers' interaction with their students when teaching science in New York (NY) and in Korea. As part of the 2011 Korean International Teacher Fellows (KITF), supported by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MEST) and the National Institute for International Education Development (NIIED), Korean science teachers observed, for six months, New York's science classes in terms of how teachers interact with their students and how students learn science during science instruction. The participants were 10 science teachers in five middle and high schools that taught Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Earth Science, and Environment Science in NY. The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS, 2003) and Instruction as Interaction (Cohen et al., 2003) were used as an instrument to identify each teacher's teaching and classroom interaction. Several characteristics of science classes in NY were revealed, which are different from Korean science classes. First, science teachers in NY dominantly put more focus on their subject of teaching during science interaction while, Korean science teachers not only teach science but also do counseling to students as a homeroom teacher. Second, science teachers in NY acknowledged the students' individuality and have positive experiences of professional development supported by their school and district more than Korean science teachers do. Third, science teachers in NY sometimes showed limited knowledge about the concepts of science and lack of collaboration with other science teachers. This characteristics may prevent the school from strengthening its subject program and keeping equity across the grade levels and courses.