• 아동학회지
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• 제33권3호
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• pp.131-148
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• 2012

This study examines the scientific concept development of young children in terms of the day-night cycle. The subjects consisted of 180 three-, four-, and five-year-old children from two kindergartens and one children's center located in Seoul and Jeju. Individual interviews were conducted to collect verbal and pictorial responses on the day-night cycle. The scientific concepts on the day-night cycle are classified five stages including : no recognition, egocentric concept, initial mental models, synthetic mental models, and scientific mental models. Using two-way ANOVA, scores for the types of concept on the day-night cycles were then analyzed according to both the ages and genders of the children. The results reveal the existence of significant differences in terms of the types of concept of young children according to age. Most three-year-olds children had no recognition. Most three, four, and five-year-old children revealed egocentric concepts. Four-year-old children revealed that were in the initial stages of experiencing the mental models and synthetic mental models of the day-night cycle. Five-year-old children revealed that they were in the early stages of experiencing the initial, synthetic, scientific mental models of the day-night cycle. The results suggest appropriate ways of science education for young children based on the development of scientific concepts of the day-night cycle.

• 대한수학교육학회지:수학교육학연구
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.213-228
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• 2002

We know that curriculum is, first of all, related to teaching materials, namely, contents. Therefore, when we think of mathematics curriculum, we must take account of characteristic of mathematics. Vygotsky has studied the development of scientific concepts and everyday concepts. According to Vygotsky, scientific concepts grow down through spontaneous concepts; spontaneous concepts grow upward through scientific concepts. And mathematics is a representative of subjects dealing with scientific or theoretical concept. Therefore, his study provides scientific basis for mathematics curriculum design. In this context, Davydov notes that everyday concepts are developed through empirical abstraction, while scientific concepts require a theoretical abstraction. And Davydov constructed the curriculum materials for the teaching of number concept. Davydov's curriculum is an example of reflecting Vygotsky' theoretical view and his view about the types of abstraction. In particular, it represents mathematical characteristic of a 'science' by introducing number concept through quantitative relationship and use of signs. In conclusion, stance mathematical concepts have scientific characteristic, mathematics curriculum reflects this characteristic.

• 수산해양교육연구
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.209-223
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• 2017

The purpose of this study is to compare and analyze science self-efficacy, science self-concept and scientific attitude according to the class size in the elementary school. For this purpose, three research questions were set as follows; First, are there any differences in science self-efficacy according to the class size? Second, are there any differences in science self-concept according to the class size? Third, are there any differences scientific attitude according to the class size? To solve this research questions, the subjects in this study were 809 5th and 6th grade students of eight elementary schools in Busan. 220 were sampled from small-size classes, 354 from mid-size classes and 235 from large-size classes. The results of this study through the process are as follows; First, there were significant differences in science self-efficacy according to the class size. Second, there were significant differences in science self-concept according to the class size. Third, according to the result, there was not a significant difference in scientific attitude according to the class size. The findings of the study suggest that it is necessary the class size should be adjusted to the appropriate level for improving student's science self-efficacy and science self-concept.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제32권6호
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• pp.1027-1038
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• 2012

We investigated the effect of Science Writing Heuristic (SWH) on elementary students' concept formation and their retention. Also we explored the interaction effect of those with scientific attitudes. We developed mirrors/lenses lessons incorporating SWH. An experimental group of fifth grade students (n=25) had been instructed with SWH lessons for six periods while a control group (n=25) taught according to the normal science lessons based on the Korean national curriculum using teacher's guides published by the Ministry of Education. Results of pre- and post-test of understanding the concept of mirrors and lenses showed a positive impact of SWH on both male and female students. However, the retention effect after post-test revealed that SWH only had an effect on female students' scientific attitudes. SWH, therefore, could be an effective teaching approach especially on concept formation, retention effects by fostering female students' scientific attitudes.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제38권1호
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• pp.16-30
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• 2019

This study aimed to develop and apply the process-focused assessment, and verify the assessment's effectiveness for improving scientific communication skills in elementary science learning. To achieve the aims of this study, the unit "Action of Electricity" in elementary science text book for 5-6th students was selected, and then 13 process-focused assessments were developed to improve scientific communication skills. 119 elementary school students in 6th grade participated in this research. it was performed to compare between 60 students on the general assessment and 59 students on the process-focused assessment in the results of achievement levels on scientific concept and scientific communication skills. The results were as follows: First, this study showed that process-focused assessment had higher educational effectiveness in specific area of scientific communication skills than the general assessment. Second, the process-focused assessment can help to form students' scientific concepts as the general assessment. Furthermore, the process-focused assessment group was more effective at reducing the non-scientific concept than the general assessment.

• 대한지구과학교육학회지
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.197-203
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• 2012

The main purpose of this research is to search the effect of different types of advance organizers in elementary science classes, to the students in acquiring scientific concepts and its retentions. In order to proceed with the research, We have chosen 93 students of three different classes of fifth graders, studying in M elementary school in U metropolitan city. We have randomly chosen two classes as an experimental group and one class as a comparative group. In the first experimental group (Group1), advance organizer was put in a form of a sentence., and the second experimental group (Group2), advance organizer was put in a form of a picture. For the comparative group, We have not put any advance organizer, and the method of class was proceeded as it was before. The result of this research are as follows. Firstly, the result of 'One-way analysis of variance' on scientific concept grade, right after the experiment on three groups, has shown a meaningful difference that, the shape of advance organizer does affect the acquisition of elementary school students' scientific concept. Secondly, even though Group1, who was given with a sentence as an advance organizer, got higher scientific concept scores after the experiment than that of comparative group, However, there was not a meaningful difference between Group1 and comparative group. Thirdly, Group2, who was given with a picture as an advance organizer, has shown a meaningful difference from comparative group. Judging from the facts above, utilizing an advance organizer of a picture in elementary science class, will be very affective on students' acquiring scientific concept.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제42권4호
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• pp.477-486
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• 2022

본 연구에서는 상황 학습 이론과 실행 기반의 과학 교육에 관한 문헌들에 대한 고찰을 통해 과학적 실행 중심의 수업에서 과학 개념학습의 가능성을 살펴보았다. 먼저, 상황 학습 이론이 학생들의 과학적 실행에의 참여를 강조하는 최근 과학 교육 개혁의 흐름과 관련이 깊으며, 상황 학습의 관점에서 개념 학습은 학습자가 개념을 자원으로 활용하며 실행에 참여하는 동안 개념적 행위 주체성을 발현하여 개념을 지속적으로 발전시키는 과정을 통해 이루어진다는 것을 알 수 있었다. 또, 이러한 상황 학습 이론은 과학적 실행 기반의 수업에서 과학 개념을 학습하는 데에도 적용된다는 것을 확인하였다. 즉, 과학적 실행 중심의 과학 수업에서는 과학 개념이 자원으로 활용되며, 과학 개념을 자원으로 활용하는 동안 학생들은 과학적 실행에 더 잘 참여할 수 있고, 과학적 실천에의 참여는 개념적 행위 주체성의 발현을 통해 개념 학습을 더욱 촉진할 수 있다. 이러한 고찰의 내용이 학교 과학 교육에 주는 시사점을 논의하였다.

• 아동학회지
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.55-69
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• 2007

This research examined age differences in the way 3-, 4-, 5-year-old children solve scientific problems involving magnetic and nonmagnetic objects. Their scientific process skills and scientific concepts were examined in 1) hypothesis setting, 2) hypothesis verification and 3) hypothesis application. Data was analyzed by one-way and two-way ANOVA and Scheffe. Children's scientific process skill presented differences by age in each phase of problem solving. That is, the scientific concept level demonstrated by 4-year-olds was higher than that of the 3-year-olds. That of the 5-year-olds was higher than the 4-year-olds. In addition, in all age groups, the children showed a higher level of understanding about magnetic and non-magnetic objects in the hypothesis application phase than in the hypothesis setting phase.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.15-24
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• 1991

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of Learning Cycle approach to change the concept of density. The results of the study were as follows : 1) Students already had various types of preconception related to density before formal learning. These preconceptions mostly differ from scientific concepts. 2) Male students were much better than female ones in the development of scientific concepts before formal learning. These differences were found statistically significant(P<0.01). 3) The higher the cognitive level of the students, the better the development of scientific concepts. 4) In the change of preconceptions to scientific concepts by treatment, there was significant difference between control group and experimental group at the 0.05 level. It was found that Learning Cycle approaches were more effective than traditional approaches in acquiring the concept of density. 5) It was found that there was no significant difference On the retention level of the concept of density between control group and experimental group.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제40권1호
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• pp.41-50
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• 2020

과학 개념에 대한 이해를 언어학적 관점에서 바라보면 학생들이 과학 개념어에 대한 깊고 정교한 이해와 더불어 정확하게 사용할 수 있는 능력을 길러주는 것이 매우 중요하다. 본 연구에서는 지금까지 과학 교육에서 과학 개념어에 대한 생산적 지식 교육의 기틀이 잘 마련되어 있지 않음에 주목하고, 과학 개념을 구성하고 있는 단어들 사이의 관계를 생산적이고 효과적으로 교육할 수 있는 방안을 탐색함으로써 과학 개념어의 생산적 지식 교육의 기틀을 제공하고자 하였다. 이를 위해 첫째, 몇 가지의 계량 언어학적 텍스트 분석 방법을 이용하여 과학 교과서 텍스트로 부터 과학 개념을 구성하고 있는 단어들과 그들 사이의 관계를 추출하고, 둘째, 각 방법의 결과로 추출된 단어 관계의 의미를 정성적으로 살펴본 뒤, 셋째, 이를 이용하여 과학 개념어의 생산적 지식 향상에 도움을 줄 수 있는 쓰기 활동 방법을 제안해 보았다. 중학교 1학년 과학교과서 '힘과 운동' 단원 텍스트를 클러스터 분석, 공기 빈도 분석, 텍스트 네트워크 분석, 그리고 워드임베딩의 네 가지 계량 언어학적 분석 방법을 사용하여 분석해 보았다. 연구 결과 첫째, 클러스터 분석 결과를 활용하여 문장 완성하기 활동을 제안하였다. 둘째, 공기 빈도 분석 결과를 이용한 빈 칸 채우기 활동을 제안하였다. 셋째, 네트워크 분석 결과를 이용하여 소재 중심 글쓰기 활동을 제안하였다. 넷째, 워드임베딩을 이용한 학습 중요 단어 목록 작성을 제안하였다.