• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.452-458
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• 1995

Science textbooks are very important materials in order to know elementary science learning in Japan and Korea. In this research the 5th grade science textbooks in Japan and Korea are analyzed by an analyzing category. The analyzing category is consisted of knowledge and scientific inquiry. Knowledge is divided by fact, concept, and rule. Scientific inquiry is divided by problem cognition, variable control, experiment planning, observing, measuring, categorizing, inferring, data transformation, predicting, correlation, cause and effect, result, communication, which are 13 subcategories. Analyzing methods are counting the frequency of each subcategory and tabulating the data. The results of this study are: 1. The frequency of scientific inquiry appeared in Korean 5th grade science textbooks is three times more than that in Japanese textbooks. 2. In scientific inquiry category, Japanese science textbooks emphasized observing, predicting, measuring and problem cognition; Korean science textbooks emphasized experiment planning, observing and problem cognition. 3. In knowledge category, fact subcategory is mostly emphasized in both countries.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.19-34
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• 1985

Teaching inquiry process is one of the most important objectives in science education. To promote students scientific process skills, a science teacher should encourage the students do something by themselves. One method for that purpose which has been used in many schools would be group experiment. The researcher has been experienced a lot of difficulties in controlling or guiding every group to finish the assigned experiment within the given class hour. Therefore, the researcher decided to select several leaders from students and trained them in advance of the given class hour. This leaders are expected to guide the remaining students in the class. As the result of this study, the classroom with and without student leaders showed very significant difference(P>0.001) in their achievement of scientific process skills. The experimental group also showed more positive attitude toward science. The researcher concluded that the use of student leaders is very effective in promoting scientific process skills. This method is also regarded very effective in a large class sized like Korean Schools.

• 대기
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• 제27권4호
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• pp.499-509
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• 2017

Possible links among cosmic ray, cloud, and climate have scientific uncertainties. The reputed topics have been highly controversial during several decades. A link between the atmospheric ionization by galactic cosmic rays (GCR), which is modulated by solar activities, and global cloud cover was firstly proposed in 1997. Some researchers suggested that the GCR can stimulate the formation of cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) in the atmosphere, and then the higher CCN concentrations may lead to an increase of cloud cover, resulting in a cooling of the Earth's climate, and vise versa. The CLOUD (Cosmic leaving outdoor droplets) experiment was designed to study the effect of GCR on the formation of atmospheric aerosols and clouds under precisely controlled laboratory conditions. A state-of-the-art chamber experiment has greatly advanced our scientific understanding of the aerosol formation in early stage and its nucleation processes if the GCR effect is considered or not. Many studies on the climate-GCR (or space weather) connection including the CLOUD experiment have been carried out during the several decades. Although it may not be easy to clarify the physical connection, the recent scientific approaches such as the laboratory experiments or modeling studies give some implications that the research definitively contributed to reduce the scientific uncertainties of natural and anthropogenic aerosol radiative forcing as well as to better understand the formation processes of fine particulate matters as an important parameter of air quality forecast.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.11-22
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• 1998

The present educational and social circumstances require the improvement of science education and the promotion of scientific technology simultaneously Under this situation, it is necessary to develop the performance assessment evaluating the ability of scientific inquiry. The purpose of this study is to develop a valid and reliable instrument of the performance assessment that is can evaluate the scientific inquiring ability. The characteristics of the instrument developed through this study, are as follows, 1. The performance assessment can be impartially achieved for all the elements of scientific inquiry, which are required in the units of elementary science from 3rd to 6th grade of elementary school. 2. To maintain the objectivity of performance assessment, the detailed standpoints and standards are established. 3. The instruments are devised to evaluate the thinking skills with the experimental reports of student, the operation skills by the check list of evaluation that the teacher's observation for the student are recorded. 4. Considering the level of elementary school student, the items required the complex thinking and the investigative skills are exclude as much as possible. 5. The items are arranged according to the learning steps of elementary school, so that the evaluation may be achieved in parallel with the process of the real teaching -learning in class. 6. According to circumstances, make use of these materials for the evaluation as the practical teaching-learning materials instead of the normal teaching-learning materials The first field trial with the instrument was carried out, using a sample of 20 students from the 3rd to 6th at K and Y elementary school located in Kwangju city. The results of mean achievement quotient for each grade are as follows, the first term of 3rd grade (experiment and exercise skills ; 85%, inquiry thinking skills ; 74%), the second term of 3rd grade (experiment and exercise skills : 81%, inquiry thinking skills ; 76%), the first term of 4th grade (experiment and exercise skills ; 70%, inquiry thinking skills ; 59%), the second term of 4th grade (experiment and exercise skills ; 61%, inquiry thinking skills ; 71%), the first term of 5th grade (experiment and exercise skills ; 84%, inquiry thinking skills ; 67%), the second term of 5th grade (experiment and exercise skills; 73%, inquiry thinking skills ; 70%), the first term of 6th grade (experiment and exercise skills : 83%, inquiry thinking skills ; 84%), the second term of 6th grade (experiment and exercise skills ; 87%, inquiry thinking skills ; 81%).

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제34권4호
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• pp.349-357
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• 2014

이 연구의 목적은 수업시간에 이루어지는 과학 실험의 의미를 고찰하고 실험 수업의 개선 방향을 알아보는 것이다. 이를 위하여 교과서, 교사 인식, 실제 수업 사례를 분석하여 탐구 요소가 과학 실험 수업에 얼마나 포함되어 있으며 그 수준은 어떠한지 알아보았다. 22명의 교사를 대상으로 한 설문지를 통해 교사의 인식을 알아보았으며, 중학교 3학년 2개 학급의 2차시 수업을 분석하였다. 연구 결과, 문제제시, 증거수집, 현상설명 및 기존 과학지식의 연결은 대부분의 교과서에서 제시되었으나, 의사소통 및 정당화 요소는 많지 않았다. 또한 제시된 수준은 주로 교사 주도적이었다. 교사들은 의사소통 및 정당화 단계가 매우 중요하다고 생각하였으나, 실제 실험 수업에 이를 반영하지는 못하는 것으로 나타났다. 실제 실험 수업에서 학생들은 시간의 대부분을 증거수집에 할애하였으며, 실험 결과인 증거를 기반으로 현상을 설명하거나 기존 지식과 연결하는 활동, 그리고 의사소통 및 정당화의 활동은 거의 하지 못하였다.

• 대한화학회지
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• 제49권5호
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• pp.488-496
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• 2005

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제34권3호
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• pp.346-356
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• 2015

The purpose of this study was to explore the characteristics of elementary science gifted students' modification of scientific explanations based on evidences. For this study, sixteen $6^{th}$ elementary students were participated. The subjects of this study were enrolled in the program for the science gifted. Students were asked to generate initial hypotheses before experiment, and to modify and revise their scientific explanations based on the experiments about water rising in burning candle(s). All the processes of small group discussion during the inquiry were audio-recorded. Students' modification of their scientific explanations were appeared in three types: 1) appropriate connections among evidences, reasoning, and claims, 2) disconnections among evidences, reasoning, and claims and/or use of inappropriate reasoning, 3) scientific explanations without their own understanding. Other problems that students encountered in the processes of modification of their explanations were also discussed.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제32권3호
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• pp.327-345
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• 2013

This study aims to investigate how pre-service elementary school teachers understand 'something scientific', 'being scientific', 'scientific events' and 'scientific questions' through semantic network analysis. To achieve this purpose, this study carried out a central analysis of the frequency and density of words and the degree of connection between key words, a concentric analysis, a click analysis and a common network analysis through text semantic network analysis by using NetMiner 4.0 Program. Based on the results of these analyses, this study came to the following conclusions. Firstly, in perceiving 'something scientific', pre-service elementary school teachers recognized 'verification', 'objective' and 'experiment' as most important words. In other words, they perceived that main grounds for something scientific should be provided through clear facts, possible to be verified and accompanied by an exact and logical theoretical system. In regard to 'being scientific', they perceived 'explanation', 'objective' and 'verification' as most important words, while having a traditional point of view that science is a set that can be explained objectively. Secondly, in regard that the term, 'observation', is contained in 'scientific events', they showed a high rate of understanding it as a scientific event. In regard to scientifical reasons, they showed the highest frequency of 'observation', and for unscientific reasons, they showed the highest frequency of 'behavior'. In perceiving 'scientific questions', they showed the highest frequency of determining bacteria-related questions as scientific. As a reason why they thought as scientific, they mentioned 'observation' most frequently like 'scientific events', while mentioning 'value judgement' as a reason why they thought as unscientific most frequently. From the results of integrated network analysis, this study found out that words pre-service teachers commonly used in stating scientific events or scientific questions were overlapped with words they mentioned for scientific events or scientific questions. As a result, it was found there were many pre-service teachers having interpreted scientific words without clearly distinguishing scientific events or scientific questions.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.765-772
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• 2020

현재 사용되는 일반적인 교육용 과학실험교구들은 정밀한 측정이 불가능하며 MBL 실험교구일지라도 센서중심의 프로그램으로 구성되어 있으며 데이터 확보에만 주력하여 능동적인 실험설계가 힘들다. 이 연구는 교육과정 분석을 통해 소프트웨어 융합 실험설계가 가능한 과학실험교구 시스템을 구상하고 기존 실험의 한계점을 보완하여 MBL기반 과학실험교구의 전체 시스템 아키텍처와 프레임 및 기구부를 설계한 것이다.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제42권6호
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• pp.597-610
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• 2022

이 연구에서는 과학탐구실험 1단원 '역사 속의 과학 탐구'에서 과학교사들이 실행한 평가 사례와 교육과정에 따라 구성한 전형적인 가상의 상황에서 지향하는 평가 사례를 조사하였다. 서술형 문항으로 구성된 설문지를 개발하여 '역사 속의 과학 탐구'를 가르친 경험이 있는 70명의 과학교사들을 대상으로 설문을 실시하였다. 설문에 참여한 교사 중 8명과 면담을 실시하였다. 교사들이 응답한 평가 사례를 평가 영역과 평가 방법의 측면에서 분석하였고, 평가 실태와 평가 지향의 결과를 비교하였다. 연구 결과, 평가 실태에서 평가 영역은 탐구 능력이 가장 많았고 교육과정에서 제시한 핵심 개념인 '과학의 본성'과 '과학자의 탐구 방법'을 평가한 사례는 적었다. 평가 방법은 보고서에 크게 치우치고 다양한 평가 방법이 활용되지 못했다. 평가 지향에서는 핵심 개념을 평가한 사례가 다소 증가하였으나 절대적인 빈도는 여전히 적은 수준에 머물렀다. 평가 지향의 평가 방법은 측정 방법의 평가가 줄고 수행 방법의 평가가 증가하였고 실태에서는 나타나지 않았던 비형식 방법의 평가가 나타나기도 하였으나 여전히 다양한 평가 방법이 활용되지 못하였다. 면담에 참여한 교사들의 의견을 바탕으로 설문 결과에 대한 원인을 분석하였다. 연구 결과를 바탕으로 과학탐구실험에서 NOS를 적극적으로 할 수 있는 방안을 논의하였다.