• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.404-414
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• 2009

The revised curriculum in 2007 includes open inquiry approach to increase students' interest in science and to build up creativity. So teachers and pre-service teachers should be equipped with the ability of open inquiry performance. In order to investigate pre-service teachers' readiness to perform open inquiry tasks, we analyzed reports written as homework by a group of 71 juniors in a national university of education. The investigation tool was composed of four domains: topic selection, the inquiry process, the conclusion, and reporting. Each domain had three or four sub-domains. By using the framework, four raters scored the students' inquiry reports. The findings reveal that the pre-service elementary school teachers have difficulty in the domain of 'topic selection' and the 'conclusion' compared with the other domains. Under the topic selection domain, they showed weaknesses in 'creativity' and 'scientific topic' and under the conclusion domain, they had difficulty in 'recognizing limits' and 'value of conclusion'. The finding suggests that pre-service teaching program should provide with opportunities to perform open inquiry continually.

• 대한지구과학교육학회지
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.124-135
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• 2013

The purpose of this study was to find the relationship between elementary school teachers' beliefs of inquiry and science performance assessment. To collect data for analyzing elementary school teachers' beliefs of inquiry and their practice of science performance assessment, the researcher was surveyed with elementary school teachers by open-ended questionnaires and interview. The findings of this study were as follows; First, Most of elementary school teachers beliefs of inquiry was shown as constructivist tendency. This view of inquiry involves watching and doing experiments, and the skills of thinking processes, in which learners make their own interpretations rather than merely acquiring preexisting knowledge structures. Second, for content knowledge, participants' preception about the target of science performance assessment involved assessing application of science knowledge rather than basic level of substantive knowledge. For inquiry process, participants' preception about the target of science performance assessment involved assessing the lower level of inquiry rather than the higher level of inquiry. Most of participants was measured using a paper and pencil test for the actual evaluation methods due to the ease and objectivity of the assessment, the lack of understanding how to perform the performance evaluation process and method. Especially, participants who recognize that the higher level of inquiry was used performance and informal mode of assessing.

• 대한수학교육학회지:학교수학
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.203-241
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• 2000

This study aims to suggest a model of task development for mathematics performance assessment and to develop performance tasks for the fifth graders in the primary school on the basis of this model. In order to achieve these aims, the following inquiry questions were set up: (1) to develop open-ended tasks and projects for the fifth graders, (2) to develop checklists for measuring the abilities of mathematical reasoning, problem solving, connection, communication of the fifth graders more deeply when performance assessment tasks are implemented and (3) to examine the appropriateness of performance tasks and checklists and to modify them when is needed through applying these tasks to pupils. The consequences of applying some tasks and analysing some work samples of pupils are as follows. Firstly, pupils need more diverse thinking ability. Secondly, pupils want in the ability of analysing the meaning of mathematical concepts in relation to real world. Thirdly, pupils can calculate precisely but they want in the ability of explaining their ideas and strategies. Fourthly, pupils can find patterns in sequences of numbers or figures but they have difficulty in generalizing these patterns, predicting and demonstrating. Fifthly, pupils are familiar with procedural knowledge more than conceptual knowledge. From these analyses, it is concluded that performance tasks and checklists developed in this study are improved assessment tools for measuring mathematical abilities of pupils, and that we should improve mathematics instruction for pupils to understand mathematical concepts deeply, solve problems, reason mathematically, connect mathematics to real world and other disciplines, and communicate about mathematics.

• 한국초등수학교육학회지
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.1-22
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• 2010

이 연구는 교사의 역할에 따른 상호작용 패턴을 분석하는데 그 의의가 있다. 즉, 교사의 역할에 따라 수학 수업에서 상호작용의 패턴이 어떻게 달라지는지 분석하였다. 이를 위해서 서울특별시 소재의 초등학교에서 자율장학의 수업 관찰과 면담 등을 통하여 수학 수업에 대해 중립적인 성향, 교사 중심적인 성향, 학생 중심적인 성향을 갖고 있는 세 명의 4학년 교사를 선정하였다. 선정된 세 교사의 수학 수업을 측정, 연산, 확률과 통계, 문자와 식 영역에 대해 수업녹화와 수행평가지 그리고 학습지 분석을 통하여 수학적 수업관행과 상호작용 패턴을 분석하였다. 그 결과 중립적 성향의 교사는 수학 수업에서 학습의 안내자 역할을 하는 것으로 관찰되었으며, 교사 중심적 성향의 교사는 학습의 지시자 역할을, 그리고 학생 중심적 성향의 교사는 학습의 조정자로서의 역할을 하는 것으로 수업관행의 분석 결과 드러났다. 그리고 상호작용 패턴에 있어서 학습의 안내자 역할을 한 교사의 수업에서는 보고서 패턴과 탐구 패턴이 주로 관찰되었으며, 학습의 지시자로서의 역할을 한 교실에서는 보고서 패턴이 주를 이루었고, 학습의 조정자 역할을 한 교사의 수업에서는 논의 중심의 가장 고차원적인 상호작용이 주로 관찰되었다. 이러한 분석 결과는 수학 수업에서의 교사의 역할이 수학적 상호작용에 중대한 영향을 미치게 되며, 결국 학생들의 수학 학습의 질에 중대한 영향을 주게 된다는 것을 의미한다. 따라서 이 연구 결과는 수학 수업에서의 교사의 역할 변화를 위해서는 수학 교과, 특히 수업 방법에 대한 교사의 전문성 신장이 매우 중요함을 시사한다.