• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.102-116
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• 2008

In their teaching practice, teachers encounter multi-dimensions of pedagogical challenges. The recognition and reflection on these challenges is crucial to advance our science teaching. This study looked into science teachers' dilemmas of their teaching practical work through their written cases. Dilemma cases are teachers' narratives organized around important events of teaching and learning. It can reveal teachers' situated cognition and be used as lens to investigate complex realities of science teaching and learning. 26 pre- and in-service elementary teachers' dilemma cases of science practical work were carefully collected and analysed to interpret what constitute tensions in elementary science practical works. They were largely grouped into three: Curriculum and Institutional Relevance, Students Relevance, Nature of School Experiments Relevance and divided into 7 subheadings: 'Authority of Curriculum(textbook)', 'Disappointment at external support', 'Students' interests and safety', 'Students' unscientific and inert attitude', 'Difficulty of showing expected results', 'Generalization through experiment', 'Knowledge acquisition and authentic inquiry'. Each dilemma was interpreted in terms of the tensions which constitute contradictory beliefs, values, expectation and realities. These dilemmas enabled to expose actual conditions of elementary science practical work and teachers' challenges otherwise can not be seen easily. Science teacher educators also can get some implications to overcome the gap between theory and practice in their teacher education.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.366-378
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• 1994

The titled study has been conducted by collecting questionnaires from 146 secondary school science teachers. The results analysed are as follows. 1. More than half of the science teachers think that they have too much loads on teaching and other works. They hope to teach 15 hours a week or less and also to be waived from extra works not related with teaching. 2. Most of the science teachers think that they are not paid enough salary. And more than half of them feel their economic and social status are below average. 3. Science teachers think that they have good relations with their colleagues but many of them are not much satisfied with the attitudes of students and their parents. 4. Science teachers want better facilities for teaching and for their office. 5. Science teachers feel difficult in teaching laboratory class. They pointed out that it is time-consuming to prepare for experiments and clean up the laboratory and that evaluation of experimental work is not easy. 6. Science teachers appeal that they have difficulties in teaching inquiry skills due to the crowded class and also lack of teaching materials for this purpose.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.250-262
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• 1995

Investigation on the appendices was carried out to acquire teaching materials about improvement of a appendices and development of teaching-learning activities for science textbooks in Korean middle schools. We analysed the appendices for 30 kinds of science textbooks used in Korean middle schools during $1969{\sim}1994$ years. In the results there were three kinds of pattern for the appendices, such as appendix, non-appendix, and similar appendix without appendix title. The content of appendices were summarized as six categories. such as list of science and scientist history, SI unit-constants and symbols, handling methods of instruments for basic experiments, measuring methods and inquiry activity, safety and precautions, and supplementary data with figures and tables. The appendices of six categories were mostly a content of general and integrated science, and were concentrated in the first grader's textbooks. There were many appendices about the methods for basic experiments such as 'How to Use of Experimental Appliances' in the first grader's science textbooks, but there was no or lack of them in the second and the third grader's science textbooks in the middle school. By the ratio to the pages of appendices which were included according to curriculum changes. the ratio was found to be 4.47% which was the highest in middle school science textbooks at the second curriculum and to be 3.47% which was the highest in high school biology textbooks at the second curriculum. The results of this study indicated that the science textbooks should include as many appendices as possible, because teachers could utilize them in teaching activities and students should be able to be given much help in self-learning.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.309-318
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• 2003

Scientific reasoning is one of the main concerns in current science education. This study have tried to answer on the question whether Korean science education has the potential to help improve of students' ability to think scientifically. Therefore, the present study investigated the relationship between reasoning patterns evident in science textbook and science examination items, and students' scientific reasoning skills across grades in Korea. 1975 subjects (1022 females and 953 males) were administered in the Lawson's Test of Scientific Reasoning skills. Forty seven science textbooks and 240 assessment instrument were analyzed by several scientific reasoning keys. Scientific reasoning patterns were adopted from Lawson's classification which characterized the patterns as the empirical-inductive and the hypothetical-deductive. This study found that reasoning patterns evident in textbook analyses and assessment instrumental items do not evidentce the potential to stimulate the development of students' reasoning skill. In order to improve the students' abilities to think and achieve, higher levels of reasoning must be included in the science textbook and examination. Further, some of scientific reasoning processes, such as generating hypotheses, designing experiments, and logical prediction, were not found in science textbooks and test items in Korean secondary schools. This study also discussed the educational implication of these results and further studies about to develop student's reasoning ability.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제30권4호
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• pp.562-573
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• 2011

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of teaching-learning programs from the perspective of brain-based learning science. Four units in 5th grade elementary science programs of the Revised 2007 National Curriculum were selected as contents to study. As the brain-based learning science analysis method, equations of the brain compatibleness index (BCI) and contribution degree on the brain compatibleness index (BCICRE) were applied to them. This study showed that there were qualitative and quantitative differences among the analyzed teaching-learning programs through the unit and curriculum. The results showed that hands-on activities like experiments or open inquiry activities improved their evaluation of the teaching-learning programs. From the analyzing, teachers can judge whether each teaching-learning program made considered the brain of the learners. Furthermore, this study can provide useful information to consult of various science teaching-learning programs brain-based learning.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.209-219
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• 2024

We studied the effects of science high school students on the change of epistemological beliefs in chemistry and the academic achievement of chemistry by completing 'advanced chemistry'. For seven months from July 2023 to January 2024, 80 first-year students at G Science High School in Gyeongnam were surveyed and analyzed for epistemological beliefs about chemistry before and after classes in advanced chemistry. Chemistry academic achievement was classified by 'upper' and 'lower' levels based on the end-of-semester grades of 'advanced chemistry' in the second semester of the first year and analyzed with the SPSS 28 program. After completing advanced chemistry, the epistemological belief in chemistry increased in the proportion of favorable responses. After completing advanced chemistry, the proportion of favorable responses increased in detailed factors such as 'effort', 'math link', 'outcome', 'reality link', and 'concepts', while the 'visualization' factor decreased. Although completing 'advanced chemistry' positively changed students' epistemological beliefs about chemistry, visual expression showed little contribution to understanding chemical concepts. Based on the above results, we will have to focus on the design of instructors' teaching-learning, such as learner-centered inquiry experiments, creative visual expressions, etc., for successful chemistry teaching-learning.

• 과학교육연구지
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• 제35권2호
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• pp.173-192
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• 2011

이 연구는 빛의 직진에 관한 교사들의 개념이 어떠한지 살펴보고, 나타난 여러 대안개념들을 개선하기 위해 필요한 적절한 학습모듈의 개발에 주목한 것으로서 올바른 빛의 직진 개념 형성을 위한 실험장치와 work sheet의 고안 및 활용의 효과성을 살펴보고 이에 따른 교육적 시사점을 얻고자 이루어졌다. 개발된 실험장치와 work sheet는 현직 교사들로 하여금 올바른 과학 개념을 가질 수 있도록 하는지 알기 위해 초 중등학교 교사 75명(초등 8명, 중등 67명)을 대상으로 적용수업이 이루어졌고 적용수업 전 후에 교사들의 개념을 알아보기 위하여 사전검사와 사후검사가 각각 이루어졌다. 결과의 분석은 사전검사 및 사후검사 무응답 등의 이유로 중등교사 5명을 제외한 70명의 교사들에 대하여 이루어졌다. 실험장치를 이용한 적용수업 전, 대다수의 교사들이 가진 대안 개념으로 실험장치의 바닥판에 빛이 비쳐 밝게 보이는 모양 자체를 빛의 진행경로로 생각하는 것으로 드러났으나 실험장치를 이용한 적용수업 이후 바닥판에 빛이 비친 모양을 빛의 진행경로로 생각하는 유형의 수가 크게 감소하였다. 아울러 수업 전, 빛의 진행경로의 출발점을 잘못 그린 것과는 반대로 거의 모든 교사가 광원인 전구로부터 시작하여 빛의 진행경로를 그리는 올바른 개념으로 변화하였다.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.16-24
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• 2006

본 연구에서는 실생활 소재를 사용한 문제해결형과 과제해결형 탐구 활동을 적용했을 때, 학생 간 상호작용의 양상을 조사하였다. 연구를 위해, 충북 청원군 소재 중학교 3학년 학생 5명의 실험 수업을 관찰하고, 녹음 및 녹화 후 기록 원고를 작성 분석하였다. 학생들의 대화를 질문, 설명, 사고, 메타인지의 4가지 상호작용 유형으로 분류하고, 각 유형별 학습 접근 수준은 심층적-피상적 접근으로 분류하였다. 실험 형태별 언어적 상호작용의 수와 학습 접근 수준 비교 결과, 문제해결형 탐구실험은 문제점 발견에서 해결까지 상호작용의 수가 문제 발생 이전에 비해 2배 가량 증가하는 것을 볼 수 있었으며, 심층적 접근 수준의 상호작용의 수도 4배 정도 증가하는 것으로 나타났다. 한편, 과제해결형 탐구실험에서는 실험과정 중 상호작용의 수가 고루 분포하였다. 또한 학생들은 문제해결형 탐구실험에서 보다 많은 심층적 접근의 상호작용을 보이는 것으로 나타났다.

• 대한지구과학교육학회지
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2014

The purpose of this study is to introduce the science-play in the regular class, stimulate the student's curiosity, motivate them and take active part in their science class. To make an effective science class, we developed the science-play activity instead of experiments in the text, and applied it to the class. The experimental group has statistically meaningful results in the science process skills, expecially in subordinate elements such as observation, deduction, expectation, data analysis and assumption establishments(p<.01). However, the comparative group has no meaningful results in the science process skills. Though the average value of the science related attitude in the experimental group had only a little increase and had no statistically meaningful results, that in the comparative group has decreased during the same period. As for the experimental group, the science-play activities were repeated and their science related attitude has increased a little. Even though there were no meaningful statistic results(p>.05), the science-play activity was effective in the science related attitude. As a result of this research, it could be said that the science-play activity can improve the student's science process skills and the science related attitude, and the science-play program should be further developed and applied to make easy and effective science classes.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제39권4호
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• pp.475-493
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• 2020

In Korea, the lower elementary grades are applying a topic-oriented integrated curriculum. It causes a lack of science content and inquiry experience for young children. The purpose of this study is to understand the scientific experiences and perceptions of the lower elementary graders and to inquire about the meaning of those experiences in their science learning. Four students (male 2, female 2), their parents, and their first-year homeroom teachers participated in the study. The data collection was mainly conducted through in-depth interview of them. Results showed that the 'experiments' were the student's the main perception of science, and the epistemic emotion that students mainly feel about science was 'curiousness'. Since most experiences were dependent on non-formal educational experience, the parents were an important factor to determine their experiences about science. Various factors, such as students' scientific experiences, their epistemic emotions, and the parents, interacted to form children's perception of science. The positive perception of science affected the level of motivation and expectation for science learning as the third grade. It is suggested that improvement of curriculum and textbooks should emphasize scientific exploration for the lower graders of elementary school, which provides them meaningful scientific experience in school.