• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.262-276
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• 2010

The purpose of this study was to investigate and analyze the elementary teachers' views and students' views about the difficulties in teaching and learning on open inquiry activities of elementary school science. Semi-structured interviews were conducted individually with three elementary teachers who have serviced more than three years, and with twenty four elementary students attending schools located in Cheongju City. And their anecdotes were collected and analyzed. The interview questions were developed through Seidman's steps to acquire the reliability in the interview data. From the interviews and anecdotes, we found that elementary teachers' views about the difficulties of teaching open inquiry activities: the difficulties of teaching in finding inquiry problem and planning inquiry, the difficulties of managing group activities, the difficulties of managing class hours for inquiry, the lack of the students' inquiry abilities, and problems on students' affective characteristics. And the students have the views about the difficulties in doing open inquiry activities: the difficulties of finding inquiry problem and planning inquiry, being unaccustomed to write reports, the troubles with investigating, problems on affective characteristics, the difficulties of joining in a group, and the lack of inquiry abilities. The teachers give suggestions for effective application of the open inquiry activities: first, the teachers must encourage students' emotion and will in doing open inquiry activities, second, there must be the steady inquiry teaching and learning in ordinary elementary science classes. Based on the results, this study suggested that elementary teachers should concern specially about students' being unaccustomed to write reports and the troubles in doing scientific investigation.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제27권7호
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• pp.547-558
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• 2007

본 연구는 한국과 싱가포르의 중학교 과학 교과서에 실린 물리 영역의 탐구 활동을 비교 분석함으로써 차기 과학과 교과서 탐구 활동 구성에 대한 시사점을 얻기 위한 목적을 지닌다. 두 나라의 교과서 탐구 활동을 탐구 활동의 일반적인 특징과 참 과학 탐구(authentic scientific inquiry)의 반영 정도라는 두 가지 측면에서 분석하였는데, 이를 위해 각각 Millar et al.(1998)의 탐구 활동 분석틀과 Chinn & Malhotra(2002)의 분석틀을 수정 보완하여 이용하였다. 연구 결과, 두 나라 탐구 활동의 목적, 학생의 사고 관련 활동, 과제의 개방성 정도에서 차이가 발견되었다. 탐구 활동의 목적 영역에서 한국은 내용 중심적인 활동이 많았고, 싱가포르는 과정 중심적인 활동이 많았다. 학생의 사고 관련 활동 영역에서 싱가포르에는 한국에는 드문 '예상한 것 검증하기' 등의 사고 관련 활동이 있었으며, 탐구의 개방성 정도도 싱가포르가 한국보다 높았다. 두 나라의 탐구 활동에서 참 과학 탐구를 반영하고 있는 정도에도 차이가 발견되었다. 한국에는 학생들이 스스로 연구 문제를 착안하는 활동이 전혀 없었으나 싱가포르에는 이러한 활동이 있었으며, 연구 설계 항목에서 한국의 탐구 활동에는 없는 변인 설정, 변인 통제 활동이 싱가포르에는 발견되었다. 연구 결과는 교과서 탐구 활동을 구성할 때 탐구 활동의 목적, 학생의 사고 관련 활동, 과제의 개방성 정도 등의 요소가 고르게 포함되도록 할 필요가 있으며, 참 과학 탐구 요소를 적절히 반영할 필요가 았다는 것을 시사한다.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.202-212
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• 2004

The purpose of this study was to examine the connection among inquiry activities related to 'Metabolism' presented in life science textbooks developed according to the national common basic curriculum. To perform this, the type, process and context of inquiry activities of life science textbooks were analyzed. The number of inquiry activities is gradually increased from elementary to secondary school. As result of analysis, types, processes and skills, and context of inquiry were not balanced according to textbooks and school levels. It is suggested that the framework of evaluating inquiry activities based on curriculum objectives be provided when developing science textbooks. It also implies that teachers need to reconstruct inquiry contents and activities suitable to school situations when they teach in the real fields of education.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제38권2호
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• pp.275-286
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• 2019

The purpose of this study is to investigate the features of inquiry activities using technology in the 2015 revised elementary science digital textbooks. For this, we analyzed the features of inquiry context and inquiry method presented in inquiry activities using three kinds of technology: Virtual experiment, virtual reality and augmented reality. As a result, firstly, the most common types of 77 inquiry activities were realistic type which shows the phenomenon actually and vividly as possible and realistic-abstract type which shows the phenomena with the abstract concepts. Second, the ways of using three technologies were different depending on the processes of inquiry and the sub-domains of science. For example, virtual experiment technologies were mostly used in the contents of physics and chemistry with the inquiry context of realistic-abstract type for investigating the relationship between variables of experiments and describing the phenomena mechanically. On the other hand, virtual reality and augmented reality techniques tended to be used more frequently in biology and earth science contents with the inquiry context of realistic type for observing and describing the phenomena. Finally, we discussed educational implications in terms of developing and applying technology-based inquiry activities.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.528-541
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• 1999

제 6차 교육과정에 의해 발행된 4종의 공통과학 교과서의 탐구영역 중 탐구실험을 중심으로 과학탐구 평가표(SIEI)를 사용 하여 탐구 활동을 분석하였다. 공통과학 4종의 교과서의 탐구활동의 평균 횟수는 115.5회로 나타났고, 교과서별 비교에서 B교과서가 147회로 가장 많고, D교과서가 121회, C교과서가 100회, A교과서가 94회로 가장 적어 교과서별로 차이가 나타났다. 탐구활동 영역별 횟수는 관찰이 22회, 실험이 117회, 자료해석이 196회, 조사가 64회.. 토의가 51회, 분류가 4회 그리고 예상이 8회로 개념적 탐구 활동이 탐구실험에 비해 약 2.3배 정도 많이 나타났다. 탐구과제수는 A교과서가 268개, B교과서가 328개, C교과서가 207개 그리고 D교과서가 304개로 C교과서가 가장 적었다. 탐구활동의 구조적 분석 중 경쟁/협동구조의 평가에서 공동과제, 조별결과가 87.1%, 토론구조평가에서 토론이 없는 활동이 83.5%, 탐구자유도 평가에서 문제, 방볍, 답이 모두 제시된 탐구활동이 58.3%, 탐구영역평가에서 교과내용의 증명이나 시범활동이 66.9%로 이들이 각 평가영역에서 가장 높게 나타났다. 공통과학4종의 교과서에 대한 탐구과정을 종합적으로 평가한 탐구피라미드 구조는 모두 형태 I 구조를 나타내었고, 탐구지수는 평균 47.8로 매우 높은 수준이었다.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.77-94
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• 1990

The Inquiry Activities the newly developed Korean High Schol Biology Textbooks were evaluated using SIEI(Seientific Inquiry Evaluation Inventory). The textbook evaluated are five Introductory Biology books and five Advanced Biology books developed in 1990. The instrument, SIEI, was developed by Myung Hur in his doctoral study at Columbia University in 1984. The major findings of the study are summarized below. 1. The inquiry activities in the textbooks are focusing on the low level science process skills 2. Students are rarely asked to formulate a hypothesis or to design an experiment. 3. The structure of the Inguiry Activities are mostly competitive, thus inhibiting the inquiry achievement of students. 4. The Inquiry Indices of the textbooks are between 14 and 16, meaning only 14 to 16 percent of the total instructional time are to be devoted to inquiry activities.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.541-557
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• 2012

Interest is acknowledged to be a critical motivational variable that influences learning and achievement. The purpose of this study was to investigate the interest of the elementary students when free inquiry activities were performed through a brain-based evolutionary scientific teaching and learning model. For this study, 106 fifth grade students were chosen and performed individually free inquiry activities. The results of this study were as follows: First, after free inquiry activities, as to free inquiry science related attitude, a statistically significant difference was not observed. But they came to have positive feelings about the free inquiry. Especially students marked higher mean score in openness showed consistency in sub-areas of free inquiry science related attitude. Second, students had interests in various fields, especially they had many interests in area of biology. They chose inquiry subjects that seems to be easily accessible from surrounding and as an important criterion of free inquiry they thought the possibility that they could successfully perform it. And students who belong to the high level in the science related attitudes and academic achievement diversified more topics. Third, most of students failed to further their topics. However, the students who specifically and clearly extended their topics suggested appropriate variables in their topics. On the other hand, students who couldn't elaborate their topics were also failed to suggest further topics and their performance of inquiry was more incomplete. In conclusion, the experiences of success in free inquiry make the science attitude of students more positive and help them extend their inquiry. These results have fundamental implications for the authentic science inquiry in the elementary schools and for the further research.

• 한국환경교육학회지:환경교육
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.114-126
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• 2000

The purpose of this study is to identify the theory of inquiry and to suggest an example of teaching/learning strategy through inquiry for effective environmental education. This study was based on the review of literature in the area of background of inquiry, inquiry in school subjects-social science, science, and environment and activities for inquiry. The teaching/learning strategy which was developed in this study included several inquiry activities focusing on recent social issue. And it can be used in environmental class.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.21-29
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• 2014

This study analyzed the inquiry activities in the 'matter' units from each science textbook for the fifth and the sixth graders developed by the 2007 revised national curriculum, using Practical Activity Analysis Inventory proposed by Millar(2009) to examine types of learning objectives, hands-on contents(what students have to do with objects and materials), minds-on contents(what students have to 'do' with ideas), and logical structure each activity had. The results of this study are as follows: First, most learning objectives of the inquiry activities seems to be suitable for the standards of 2007 revised national curriculum. Second, the standards of 2007 revised national curriculum are properly reflected in hands-on contents of inquiry activities. Third, minds-on contents of inquiry activities are well developed to meet the standards of 2007 revised national curriculum as a whole. Fourth, the logical structures of inquiry activities are mostly adequate for achieving the goals of the 2007 revised national curriculum. In the textbook for the fifth graders, however, all the activities are focusing too much on using students' current ideas to generate a prediction and collecting data to explore or test it. Based on these findings, this research has concluded that learning objectives, minds-on contents and logical structures of inquiry activities need to be designed carefully for students to be exposed to various activities when developing following textbooks.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제31권2호
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• pp.143-152
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• 2011

이 연구는 2007 개정 과학과 교육과정에서 신설된 자유탐구활동을 위한 학년별 자유탐구활동 주제 내용 의 특성을 알아보고, 학년에 적합한 자유탐구활동 주제를 선정 할 수 있도록 지도하는데 도움을 주고자 하였다. 연구대상은 서울특별시에 소재한 I 초등학교 3, 4, 5, 6학년 470명을 대상으로 하였다. 연구방법은 학생들이 작성한 자유탐구활동 실험계획서를 분석기준에 따라 분석하였다. 분석 기준은 자유탐구활동 주제 선정 이유 및 도움 정도, 주제 내용, 주제의 적합 여부로 나누어 분석하였다. 연구결과 호기심을 가지고 있었던 주제와 흥미로운 주제를 자유탐구활동 주제로 선정하는 경향이 있었으며, 도움을 받아 자유탐 구활동 주제를 선정할 때는 중학년은 가족, 고학년은 인터넷의 도움을 많이 받은 것으로 나타났다. 자유탐구활동 주제 영역은 생물 영역에 관한 주제가 많았으며, 고학년으로 갈수록 화학과 물리영역에 관한 것이 많아졌다. 탐구 방법은 주로 실험이나 조사 활동이 많았고, 탐구 기간은 '1주'정도가 가장 많았다. 초등학생들이 정한 자유탐구활동 주제는 내용 수준, 방법 수준, 과학적 의문, 안전과 생명 존중의 면에서 지도가 필요한 부적합한 주제도 많았다. 그러므로 초등학생들이 자유탐구활동 주제 선정 시 고려할 점은 초등학생들이 평소 알고 싶었던 과학적 의문점이나 흥미로운 주제를 자유탐구활동 주제로 선정할 수 있도록 지도해야 한다. 자유탐구활동 주제 선정을 위한 대략의 큰 영역을 학년별로 제시해야한다. 초등학생들이 자유탐구활동의 성공을 경험하여 탐구에 대한 긍정적 생각을 가질 수 있도록 탐구하고자 하는 주제에 대하여 어느 것을 얼마나 탐구할 것인가에 대하여 자유탐구활동 주제에 대한 구체적 진술을 하도록 지도해야한다.