• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.144-154
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• 2010

This study was conducted among elementary pre-service teachers who participated in creative story writing exercises related to science. It aimed at analyzing their perceptions, based on their own experiences in the story writing exercises, about story writing as a pedagogic method, to discover the implications on science education. First, creative story writing exercises were carried out over a period of eight weeks by 114 elementary pre-service teachers at a college of education, all of whom were non-science majors taking a course on earth science as a liberal arts elective. Afterward, an open-ended survey was conducted among them to discover their attitudes and opinions, both as students and as teachers-to-be. The majority of the subjects expressed a positive opinion about creative story writing as a pedagogic tool, stating that they would apply it in their future teaching by telling stories they wrote or having students write their own compositions. Pre-service teachers conclude a creative writing improves students' studying, leads interest and motivation. In addition, it linked with daily life and other school subjects. Creative story writing, when used at colleges of education, has didactic value as an empirical exercise for pre-service teachers who are not majoring in science.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제31권1호
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• pp.99-108
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• 2012

This study investigated the characteristics of preservice elementary teachers' science PCK through a mentoring program. Their perceptions of the mentoring program were also examined. The participants of this study were 33 preservice elementary teachers who prepared science lessons in small groups. A mentoring program was implemented in the processes of science lessons planning and evaluation to support their professional development. The characteristics of the preservice elementary teachers' science PCK exhibited through the mentoring program were as follows: They showed poor understanding of instructional models and logical connections of each instructional step. They also had problem in setting a clear learning goal for their science lessons. This was related with their poor understanding of the curriculum. They seldom considered students' misconceptions, and their perceptions of assessment were quite restricted. The analyses on their perceptions of the mentoring program revealed that the preservice teachers thought it was helpful for their professional development in several aspects. Mentoring could play an important role to examine and improve preservice elementary teachers' science PCK.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제37권2호
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• pp.219-231
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• 2018

This study surveyed the elementary school teachers' use of visual representations and their perceptions of the functions of visual representations in the teaching of electricity unit. A total of 110 elementary teachers who have experiences in teaching electricity unit responded to online survey. The result showed firstly that most of the teachers use visual representations in their teaching and it is mostly limited to those presented in textbooks or images that they can get easily from internet search. Secondly, elementary teachers thought that they have high ability in using visual representations and low ability in understanding students' visual presentation ability. Thirdly, visual representations are more often preferred to be used as teacher-centered ways than student-centered ways for motivating students and conceptual understanding. However, in case of scientific inquiry, both teacher-centered and student-centered ways were equally preferred. Lastly, the teachers' perceptions of the functions of visual representations were categorized into 'teaching-instrumental function', 'learning-instrumental function', 'communicative-instrumental function' and 8 subcategories were found. The most frequent function was the 'information delivery function' in the 'teaching-instrumental function' category. Implications for teacher education and further studies were discussed.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제31권7호
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• pp.1040-1054
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• 2011

This formative evaluation study presents a professional development program, "Earth Science Systems for Teachers (ESST)" held in a Midwest State in the United States. This study investigates how a professional development for urban teachers affects the teacher participants' perceptions of using the urban environment for their science teaching and their lesson unit development. The purpose of the program was to help urban teachers create science units using the urban geologic environment and its connection to urban students' everyday lives. The participant teachers' daily journal entries during the program, their lesson plans before and after the program, as well as their teaching reflections were collected as major data source. The teachers' daily journal entries were analyzed qualitatively and their pre-post lessons were analyzed quantitatively using a lesson plan analysis tool, Culturally Relevant Science Teaching Perspectives (CRSTP) was developed by the author. The lesson analysis tool was used to assess teachers' science lesson plans in the perspective of culturally relevant pedagogy and place-based pedagogy. The major findings include: 1) The teacher participants' field experiences in urban geologic sites and urban environments help the teachers to change their perceptions of using the urban environment as a teaching resource and 2) there were significant differences in their pre and post lesson unit scores based on CRSTP (P<. 01). The implications of this study are also discussed.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.450-466
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• 2009

The purpose of this study was to explore preservice elementary teachers' perceptions on models used in science and science education. Participants were sixty-one undergraduate students who were enrolled in a science education course offered at a university of education located in a mid-sized city, Korea. Data were obtained from the participants at the beginning of the course when they provided their answers to a questionnaire about models. The analysis revealed that a large number of the preservice teachers perceived models as representative of physical realities. By contrast, a relatively small number of them viewed models as representations of ideas or things like theories or hypotheses. Lots of the participants were apt to define a model from the perspective of its functions and considered the purposes of models communication, teaching, and understanding as well as visualization, simplification, and clarification. Most of the preservice teachers believed that there could be multiple models for a single target, and all of them answered that models could be changed in science. It was therefore concluded that the preservice teachers perceived properly the multiplicity and variability of models. Nevertheless, they could not elaborate how a model is used and evaluated in the process of scientific inquiry, and just a few of them mentioned the detailed nature of models. The preservice teachers possessed teacher-centered views of using models in the science classroom, and a small number of them remarked that they were going to use models for students to develop their own models and perform scientific inquiry.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제39권2호
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• pp.255-267
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• 2020

Students' engagement is important for meaningful learning and it has multifaceted aspects for their science learning. This study investigated elementary students' perceptions of science learning engagement. The subjects of this study were 341 4^th to 6^th elementary students. The survey questionnaires were 5-Likert scale questions and free response questions on science learning engagement. The results showed that elementary students' perceptions of behavioral engagement were higher than emotional and cognitive engagement. Keyword network analysis with NetMiner program showed that the frequent key words of science learning engagement were 'experiment', 'listening', and 'teachers' explanation', which were mostly the behavioral types of engagement. The degree centrality and eigenvector centrality of these key words appeared high. 'Interest', which is emotional engagement, were also one of the frequent key words, but the centralities of this word were relatively low. The Frequent key words of science learning disengagement were mostly related with off-tasks, not doing expected behaviors and negative emotions about science and science learning. Educational implications on science learning engagement were discussed.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제22권8호
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• pp.208-216
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• 2022

In Saudi Arabia, female students tend to struggle with the basics of computer programming, especially coding. To better understand why female students sometimes perform poorly in this discipline, this qualitative study aims to obtain the views of female computer programming teachers at a Saudi university on using mobile learning (m-learning) methods in computer programming lectures. Ten teachers from the all-female Aljouf University were interviewed to assess their perceptions of m-learning, in particular, the usefulness of ViLLE visualisation software. Data were analysed using thematic analysis. Most interview responses about m-learning and ViLLE were positive, although there were some notable negative responses. The Saudi culture-related responses were evenly divided between positive and negative, reflecting the culture's limitations.

• 공학교육연구
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.3-9
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• 2017

초등교사 39명을 대상으로, 첨단과학기술 교수에 대한 인식 및 교수효능감의 변화를 조사하였다. 초등교사들은 첨단과학기술에 대하여 관심이 있고 일상생활 속에서 첨단과학기술의 중요성을 인식하고, 또한 초등학교에서의 첨단과학기술 교육의 중요성 및 필요성에 대해서도 공감하고 있는 것으로 나타났다. 그러나 초등교사들은 첨단과학기술 교육의 과학학습 동기 유발과 과학 분야의 진로 지도 등 유용성에 대하여 확신하지 못하는 것으로 조사되었다. 특히 초등학교 수준에서 첨단과학기술 교육의 적합성에 동의하지 않았다. 또한 현재 초등학교에서 첨단과학기술을 가르칠 환경 조성이 필요하다고 인식하고 있었다. 첨단과학기술 STEAM 프로그램의 개발 및 적용 후의 초등교사의 첨단과학기술에 대한 교수효능감 변화는 통계적으로 유의한 차이가 있었다(t=-13.67, p<0.01).

• 대한화학회지
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• 제52권1호
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• pp.96-106
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• 2008

이 연구는 제7차 선택중심 고등학교 과학과 교육과정에 대한 학교 현장의 운영 실태를 파악하고, 과 학교사와 학생들의 인식을 알아보기 위한 것이다. 연구를 위하여 제7차 선택중심 교육과정을 경험한 127명의 고등학교 과학교사와 고등학교 3학년 학생 763명을 연구 대상으로 선정하여, 설문 조사를 실시하였다. 연구 결 과, 과학과 선택과목의 제시 방법은 인문과정의 경우 택일방식과 집단선택 방식이 많았고, 자연과정의 경우 택 일방식과 자유선택 방식이 많았다. 즉, 제한된 범위 내에서 선택권을 주는 경우가 많았다. 선택중심 교육과정 에 대한 과학교사의 인식을 조사한 결과, 부정적인 의견이 많았고, 특히 지구과학 교사가 가장 부정적인 의견 을 보이고 있었다. 그리고 학생의 교과 선택권에 대해서 생물교사와 화학교사는 찬성하는 의견이 많았으나, 물 리교사와 지구과학교사는 반대하는 의견이 더 많았다. 학생들이 올바르게 선택과목을 선택하기 위해서는 선택 과목별로 불이익이 없도록 입시 제도를 보완해야 한다는 의견과 체계적이고 현장성 있는 진로교육이 필요하 다는 의견이 많았다. 선택중심 교육과정에 대해 고등학교 3학년 학생들의 인식을 조사한 결과, 그다지 만족하 지 못하고 있는 경향을 보였는데, 그 이유로는 선택권이 제한적이라는 의견과 선택과목과 진로에 대한 홍보와 교육이 부족하다는 의견이 많았다. 이러한 결과로 볼 때, 학교 현장에서는 학생들의 선택과 과학교사 수급을 원활히 조정하고자 노력하고 있으나 모든 요구를 수용하기에는 한계가 있다. 따라서 기초과학이 소외되거나 과 학과목에 대한 학력저하가 없도록 함과 동시에 학교 현장의 실정을 감안하여 학생의 요구와 과학교사 수급 문 제를 원활히 해결할 수 있는 대책과 보완이 필요하다.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.309-319
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• 2004

이 연구는 학교 과학교육의 방향 설정을 위한 기초 연구로써, 학교 과학교육과 대표적인 사교육이라고 할 수 있는 학원 과학교육에 대한 중학생의 인식을 조사 분석하였다. 경기 지역 학원에서 과학 교과를 수강하는 중학생 180명을 대상으로, CES 축소형(Short form of classroom environment scale)을 사용하였다. 연구결과를 살펴보면, 첫째, 학생들은 과학학습의 보충, 학교 과학 수업에 대한 부정적인 생각, 학생들이 스스로 공부하는 방법이나 습관을 기르지 못해서 학원을 다니는 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, 학생들은 학교 과학 수업이 체계적으로 구성되어 있고 교사들이 과학 수업에 대한 준비를 철저히 하며, 학교 과학 수업 시간에 열심히 공부하는 것은 매우 중요하다고 인식하고 있었다. 그러나, 학교 과학 수업 시간보다는 학원 과학 수업시간에 더욱 열심히 참여하고 있는 것으로 나타났다. 셋째, 학생들은 교사가 자신들의 과학학습에 대하여 보다 실질적이고 구체적인 지원을 더 많이 해 주길 기대하고 있는 것으로 나타났다. 넷째, 학생들은 학교 과학 수업시간보다 학원 과학 수업시간에 질문하는 것이 더욱 편하고, 학원 과학 강사를 더욱 친근하게 인식하고 있는 것으로 조사되었다. 다섯째, 학생들은 학원이나 학교 과학 시간에 다루는 수업자료들이 재미없다고 생각하고 있었다.