• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제39권3호
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• pp.449-463
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• 2020

This study was to analysis teaching strategies, types of inquiry activities and the relationship between science concepts and inquiry activities presented in science textbooks. As a result of the study, first, the inquiry-based teaching strategies presented in science textbooks were experiment, simulation, demonstration, and field study. Second, there were 53 inquiry activities presented in 8 units related to the earth science area of science textbooks, and the types of inquiry activities were experimental observation (EO) 18, mock activity (SA) 20, investigation discussion and presentation (IP). It was analyzed as 12, data interpretation (ID) 2, and express (EX) 1 piece. Third, the relationship between inquiry activities and science concepts presented in science textbooks was analyzed. As a result of the analysis, out of a total of 42 inquiry activities, 21 inquiry activities corresponded to EA (explicit activities), in which the result of inquiry activities was directly and explicitly linked to science concepts. And IA (implicit activities), which is an implicit inquiry activity in which science concepts must be inferred using the results of inquiry activities, were analyzed as 21. In particular, IA (implicit activities), which is an implicit inquiry activity, can be said to be the result of reflecting the characteristics of earth science areas where many simulated activities (SA) are used. This is considered to be a matter to be considered in the process of developing various elementary science textbooks in the future.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제32권8호
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• pp.1367-1377
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• 2012

Inquiry activity is a major source of student investigation which both of the national curriculum standards strongly emphasize for achieving scientific literacy. The purpose of this study was to examine inquiry activities incorporated in high school biology textbooks used in China and Korea. The inquiry activities were examined with regard to inquiry level and science process skills. Bell's and a modification of Padilla's framework were used in these analyses. Results show that the Korean textbooks were more exclusively occupied by simple inquiry activities - None of them provided activity more complex than level 2 inquiry. In addition, the Korean textbooks had uniformly basic science process skills, whereas their Chinese counterparts gave students some challenges for higher level process skills. Therefore, it cannot be guaranteed that the activities in the Korean textbooks are helpful in guiding students toward a gradual progression to high-level inquiry. Implications for inquiry-based science education were suggested based on the results of the study.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.57-63
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• 1984

An inquiry approach in teaching science has been advocated by many science educators for the past few decades, and most elementary and secondary science curricula have incorporated it in varying degrees. It has been proven in recent studies, however, that there exists considerable discrepancy between the expectation of outcomes of the inquiry approach and the actuality. This in part implies that there is a somewhat urgent need for the systematic evaluation of the approach in teaching science. The purpose of this study is to develop a comprehensive instrument for evaluating inquiry teaching approaches embedded in science curricular materials. To develop a more valid and reliable instrument a set of empirical data was used in the developmental procedure, and most of the previous studies regarding inquiry teaching method and inquiry evaluation were consulted. The inquiry evaluation method developed in this study, called the Scientific Inquiry Evaluation Inventory (SIEI), is composed of three parts: (1) analyzing and coding each science process task of inquiry activity; (2) evaluating each inquiry activity as a whole; and (3) evaluating each science laboratory curriculum as a whole. The first part of the instrument consists of twenty science process categories and thirty subcategories grouped into four sections: (1) gathering and organizing data; (2) interpreting and analyzing data; (3) synthesizing results and evaluation; and (4) hypothesizing and designing an experiment. The science process categories are arranged according to the level of difficulty, psychological level of thinking, degree of creativity demand, and the model of the process of scientific inquiry, which is also developed in the study. The second part of the instrument contains four evaluation scales of inquiry activity: (1) competition/cooperation scale; (2) discussion scale; (3) openness scale; and (4) inquiry scope scale. And the last part consists of three methods for evaluating a science laboratory curriculum as a whole: (1) inquiry pyramid; (2) inquiry index; and (3) difficulty index. The instrument is designed to be used by teachers, science curriculum developers and science education evaluators for the purpose of diagnosing the nature and appropriateness of scientific inquiry introduced in secondary science curricular materials, especailly in laboratory work and field work.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제31권2호
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• pp.210-224
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• 2011

이 연구의 목적은 2007 개정 교육과정에 새롭게 도입되는 자유 탐구 활동이 중학생의 과학 탐구능력에 미치는 영향을 알아보고 그와 함께 자유 탐구 수행에 대한 학생들의 인식을 분석해 보고자는 것이다. 연구를 위하여 중학교 1학년 여학생 8개 학급 262명을 연구 대상으로 4개 학급은 자유 탐구 활동을 실시하고 4개 학급은 전통 수업을 실시하였다. 리커트 설문조사에 의하면 학생들은 자기 주도적으로 탐구활동을 하며 모둠별 탐구 활동과 토의 활동을 통해 협동성을 배우고 있고 자유 탐구 활동을 그다지 어렵지 않은 활동으로 생각하였다. 또한 자유 탐구 활동이 과학 공부에도 도움이 되고 흥미롭고 재미있는 활동이라는 긍정적인 반응을 보였다. 그러나 자유 탐구 활동이 잘하는 1~2명에 의해 이루어진다거나 방과 후 시간 여유가 없어 모둠원이 함께 모이는 것 자체에 어려움을 겪는 등 자유 탐구 활동의 운영에 있어 문제점과 어려움이 있는 것으로 나타났다. 자유 탐구 활동은 중학생의 과학 탐구능력 신장에 유의미한 영향을 주지 않았다. 통합탐구능력 향상 역시 유의미한 차이의 영향을 주지 않았으나 기초탐구능력 향상에는 유의미한 차이의 영향을 주었다. 특히 기초탐구능력의 하위 요소 중 예상 능력을 향상시켰다.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.17-26
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• 2004

The purpose of this study is to verify the effect of science-play activity that isn't easily completed in a course of study, put in practice an development activity class on the scientific inquiry skills and the scientific attitude of elementary school students. For this purpose, the general activity was applied for the comparative group (40 students), the science-play activity was applied for the experimental group (34 students); they are composed of 5th and 6th graders elementary school students of 74, a class of an hour during a week. The results were analyzed by means of comparing between groups as well as within groups. The results of this research is as follows: Firstly, the science-play activity as an development activity was effective in the improvement of the scientific attitudes of elementary school students. Secondly, the science-play activity as an development activity was effective in the improvement of the scientific inquiry skills of elementary school students.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제25권spc5호
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• pp.465-475
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• 2007

The purpose of this study was to develop a spider inquiry program for elementary school students based on the scientific-knowledge generating model. For the purposes of this study, we selected three species of snider (e.g. Pardosa astrigera, Argiope bruennichii, Nephila clavata) which were easily found in a school garden by elementary school students. The spider inquiry program was based on a model of the process of scientific-knowledge generation, and consisted of two sections: for students and teachers. The students' program was designed to generate scientific-knowledge, whilst the teachers' program was designed to guide the inquiry smoothly even in the case of teachers who lack experience in inquiry activities or possess limited subject knowledge on spiders. As a result, this program was found to have an influence on generating the scientific-knowledge of elementary students and the results further suggest that it may be helpful to teachers conducting an inquiry activity. Additionally, this program could be used as a selective activity lesson such as a science inquiry lesson, or as a biology inquiry class, as a weekend life experience study or as an activity on a science camp.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제28권7호
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• pp.759-767
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• 2008

This article arose from the previous studies, which suggested a synthetic list for the nature of science (NOS), discussed the relationship between the NOS and scientific inquiry and the development of the NOS in the context of scientific inquiry. In this article, for teaching scientific inquiry through the NOS, I proposed three teaching models - reflection, interaction, and the direct model -. Within these teaching models, understanding the NOS is viewed as a prerequisite condition for the improved performance of scientific inquiry. In the reflection model, the NOS is embedded and reflected in scientific inquiry without explicit introduction or direct explanation of the NOS. In the interaction model, concrete interaction between scientific inquiry and the NOS is encouraged during the process of scientific inquiry. In the direct model, subsequent to directly comprehending the NOS at the first stage of activity, students conduct scientific inquiry based on their understanding of the NOS. The intention of this present article is to facilitate the use of these models to develop teaching materials for more authentic scientific inquiry.

• 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.

• 한국환경교육학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국환경교육학회 2002년도 후반기 정기 학술발표대회
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• pp.79-85
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• 2002

Inquiry activity contents presented at a chapter on natural environment and our lives in 6 science textbooks of the middle school were analyzed based on kinds of the inquiry Loaming classified by textbook. The number of inquiry activity subjects showed severe variation as mean value was 8.3${\times}$3.7 ranged from 4 to 15. Moreover, textbooks had little common point among each other as the percentage of subjects appeared together in the textbooks more than 3 kinds, 50% of total ones investigated, was just 26.3%. Data interpretation occupied significant position in the inquiry activity as 42% of total activity contents, whereas observation and experiment (or survey) did slight part of the activity as 10% and 16%, respectively even though they are main factors of science education. A model for field education based on the reasonable common subjects was prepared in the Gildong ecological park located In the eastern fringe of Seoul as a plan in order to solve the problems.

• 한국지구과학회지
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.1-13
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• 2007

이 연구는 고등학교 지구과학 탐구활동에서 2가지 수업유형에 따라 나타나는 학생들의 반성적 탐구의 특징을 알아봄으로써 수업의 맥락에서 학생들의 반성적 탐구의 실제를 이해하고, 탐구활동 수업에서 반성적 탐구를 촉진하기 위한 시사점을 얻고자 하였다. 기존의 탐구활동수업과 본 연구에서 개발한 반성적 탐구활동수업에서 반성적 탐구의 차이를 조사한 결과 반성적 탐구를 촉진하기 위해 개발된 반성적 탐구활동수업은 자료맥락의 다양한 요소와 연결된 반성적 탐구진술이 많아, 반성적 탐구의 양적 및 다양성의 측면에서 학생들의 반성적 탐구에 긍정적인 효과가 있었다. 이러한 결과로부터 학생들의 반성적 탐구를 활성화시키는 탐구활동 수업개발의 시사점을 얻을 수 있었다.