• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.30-43
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• 2014

'Basic Inquiry' unit was newly included in the grade 3~4 science textbook developed for 2009 revised national curriculum. The unit deals with six basic inquiry skills such as 'observation', 'measurement', 'classification', 'prediction', 'inference', and 'communication'. This study investigated elementary school teachers' perceptions on the effects of 'Basic Inquiry' unit by questionnaires (N=104 for pre-survey, N=90 for post-survey). The results showed that how the teachers have taught basic inquiry skills before this new textbook and how they perceived the educational effects of the unit after experimental teaching period in three aspects; development of basic inquiry skills, facilitating science learning in other units, and implementation of open inquiry. The reasons of positive perceptions as well as negative perceptions were analyzed and discussed with the suggestions for further study.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.271-280
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• 2001

The purpose of this study is to investigate how free inquiry activities affects the scientific process skills and scientific attitudes of 5th and 6th of elementary school students. For this study, 265 elementary students from 5th and 6th grade in Seoul were selected. In comparison group 130 students were implemented and to the experimental group 135 students who did not the free inquiry activities were implemented. The result of this study is as follows: First, curiosity was the most affective factor that motivate free inquiry activities and made them select their topics. Most of the students invested for the inquiry activity in less than 3 weeks. They had some help in every stages. Students became interested in free inquiry activities because they learned new facts and enjoyed doing experiments and they wanted to continue for the same reasons. Second, free inquiry activities had little effect on the basic science process skills of the experimental group, compared to the control group at the significant difference of p=0.05. Third, free inquiry activities had considerable effect on the integrative inquiry process skills of the experimental group, compared to the control group at the significant difference of p=0.05. Fourth, the result of the post-test of the experimental group showed that free inquiry activities had no effect on scientific attitudes at the significant difference of p=0.05. In conclusion, free inquiry activities will be much more effective in developing integrative inquiry process skills than in developing basic scientific process skills and scientific attitudes.

• 한국지구과학회지
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.501-510
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• 2005

10학년 과학 교과서 지구 단원의 학습 내용에 포함되어 있는 탐구 과제가 제7차 교육 과정의 목표에 따라 제시되었는지를 판단하기 위해 11종 과학 교과서의 기본 과정에 제시되어 있는 탐구 과제의 유형과 기본 탐구 기능, 통합탐구 기능, 탐구 활동의 빈도를 조사하였고, 제시된 탐구 기능과 활동이 적절한지를 분석하였다. 분석한 결과 탐구 과제는 평균 24.0개가 제시되었으나 교과서마다 차이가 있었고 제시하는 유형이 달랐다. 탐구 활동의 빈도는 교과서마다 달랐고 제시된 것보다 더 많이 분석되었으며 통합적인 활동으로 제시되지 않고 하나의 탐구 기능처럼 제시되어 있었다. 또한 교과서에 제시된 통합 탐구 기능은 $77.2\%$로 기본 탐구 기능 $22.8\%$보다 많은 것으로 보였지만, 실제로 기본 탐구기능과 통합 탐구 기능의 분포 비율은 각각 $45.6\%$와 $56.4\%$로 조사되었다. 각 탐구 기능 중에서는 추리$(49.5\%)$와 자료해석$(68.7\%)$이 가장 많이 있었고, 문제 인식, 가설 설정, 일반화 등의 탐구 요소는 제시되고 있지 않았다. 또한 제7차 교육 과정에서 탐구 기능, 탐구 활동에 대한 의미를 제시하고 있지 않기 때문에 교과서마다 본질적 의미와 일치하지 않거나 협소한 의미로 사용되고 있었다. 이는 교육 과정이 탐구, 탐구 기능, 탐구 활동에 대한 의미를 조작적 수준으로 제시하고, 탐구 활동을 구성하기 위한 기준을 마련한 필요가 있음을 시사한다.

• 대한지구과학교육학회지
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.43-56
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• 2011

The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of small group inquiry skills on improving science process skills and attitudes toward science in elementary school science. The research questions of this study were as follows. First, effects of small group inquiry skills on improving science process skills in elementary school science. Second, effects of small group inquiry skills on improving attitudes toward science in elementary school science. The subjects of this study is two classes from 6th grade elementary classes in Busan. The experiment class practiced small group inquiry skills, while the control class practiced self inquiry. To verify the effect of the experiment, ANOVA was conducted. The main findings of this study are as follows. First, the small group inquiry skills gave a significant influence on increasing the science process skills, including the basic science process skills and the integrated science process skills, of students. Especially, among subordinate factors of science process skills between groups, it was effective to increase abilities of observing, reasoning, interpreting data, formulating hypothesis. It is necessary for teachers to make an effort to teach according to steps of the small group inquiry skills and to support inquiry activities, in order to increasing the science process skills. However, frequency of additional lessons have a little influence on increasing the science process skills. Second, there is meaningful change in the attitudes toward science for those who studied the small group inquiry skills. Also, they affected subordinate factors of the attitudes toward science, like the attitudes toward science inquiry, the happiness about science class. This study shows that the small group inquiry skills give a positive influence on the science process skills and attitudes toward science in elementary school science.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제32권2호
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• pp.236-264
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• 2012

본 연구는 현직 교사들에게 탐구 기능의 구체적인 하위 요소들을 제시하여 학생들에게 탐구 기능을 직접적으로 가르치는데 도움을 주기 위한 목적으로 진행되었다. 많은 과학 교사들은 탐구 기능이나 전략은 직접적으로 가르치지 않아도 과학 수업 또는 탐구 수업 과정을 통해 부수적으로 습득되는 것으로 생각하는 경우가 많다. 그러나 많은 선행 연구들에서 학생들은 탐구 기능을 사용하는 방법에 대해 잘 알지 못하며 탐구 기능을 사용하는 방법에 대해 직접적으로 가르쳐야 한다고 주장하고 있다. 하지만 탐구 기능을 직접적으로 가르치고자 하여도 각각의 탐구 기능의 하위 요소들에 대한 구체적인 안내가 충분하지 않아 과학교사들조차 탐구 기능에 대한 이해가 부족한 실정이다. 교사가 안내하지 않은 탐구 유형이 학생들에게서 나타나는 경우는 없다는 선행 연구들을 볼 때, 과학교사들에게 탐구 기능이나 전략에 대한 직접적인 교육의 필요성을 알리고 학생들에게 가르쳐야 할 탐구기능의 하위 요소들을 추출하여 안내할 필요가 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 탐구 기능에 대한 선행 연구 결과를 토대로 기초적 탐구 기능(관찰, 분류, 측정, 예상, 추리)과 통합적 탐구 기능(문제인식, 가설설정, 변인통제, 자료변환, 자료해석, 결론도출, 일반화)의 하위 요소들을 추출하였다.

• 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.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제33권3호
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• pp.579-587
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• 2014

In National Curriculum of Science revised in 2007, 'Free Inquiry' was newly introduced to increase student's interest in science and to foster creativity by having students make their own questions and find answers by themselves. The purpose of the study was to analyze characteristics deployed in the processes of elementary school students' free inquiry activities applying a brain-based evolutionary science teaching and learning principles. For this study, 106 the fifth grade students participated, and they performed individually free inquiry activities according to a brain-based evolutionary approach. In order to characterize the diversifying, estimating-evaluating-executing, and extending-applying activities in behavioral domain, the free inquiry diary constructed by the students, observations by the researcher, and interviews with the students were analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively. The major results of this study were as follows: First, the students preferred basic inquiry process skills and the majority of the students selected observation as a major approach of their inquiry. The reason was found to be that they were accustomed to only typical basic inquiry skills which is frequently presented at textbooks and regular instruction and didn't have appropriate experience for using relevant integrative inquiry skills. Second, most of the methods diversified and selected by the students were confined to descriptive explanation rather than causal one. Third, both of the science attitude and academic achievement were associated with the number of diversified methods and the selection of appropriate method. Based on these findings, implications for supporting domain novices in inquiry learning environments are advanced.

• 과학교육연구지
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• 제41권3호
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• pp.318-333
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• 2017

본 연구에서는 2009개정 교육과정의 중학교 과학교과서에 포함된 탐구 활동이 기존 과학교육에서 강조되어왔던 탐구 기능과 구체적 학생 활동이 강조되는 NGSS의 8가지 과학 실천 측면에서 상호 분석되었을 때 어떤 특성을 나타내는지 생명과학 단원을 중심으로 분석하였다. 분석 결과 학년 구분 없이 탐구 기능에서는 '추리', 관찰', '분류' 순으로 많이 치중되었고, 과학 실천에서는 '자료 분석하고 해석하기'와 '설명구성하고 문제해결 고안하기'에 치우쳐 있었다. 이를 통해 중학교 교과서 내 생명과학 탐구 활동이 탐구 기능뿐만 아니라 과학 실천 요소에서도 다양성이 부족하며 제시하는 활동의 목표가 한정적이라는 것을 보여주었다. 또한 과학탐구 기능과 과학 실천 요소 각 상호 매칭작업을 통해 탐구 기능 중심에서 과학 실천으로의 이행 시 내용 관련성을 검토하고 교과서의 탐구 활동에서 보이는 결과와 비교 분석한 결과 사전 매칭분석에 비해 교과서 내 탐구 활동의 결과가 대체적으로 기초탐구-자료해석/기초탐구-설명고안에 치우쳐 있어서 단조롭게 매칭 되었다. 이는 교과서에 제시된 활동내용의 다양성이 부족함을 보여주는 결과라고 할 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 2009개정 교육과정의 교과서 분석을 통해 단순하고 다양성이 부족한 탐구 활동에서 벗어나 2015개정 교육과정을 구현해나가는 과정에 다양한 과학 실천 요소를 포함시키도록 하는 노력이 절실하게 요구됨을 제언한다.

• 대한지구과학교육학회지
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.213-223
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• 2012

This study explored practicing elementary school teacher's beliefs of scientific inquiry and scientific inquiry teaching methods. Defining teacher's beliefs as a broad construct, we tried to examine the teachers' understandings about the scientific inquiry and scientific inquiry teaching method. This study drew on interview data from 10 elementary teachers in busan and changwon area of korea. Conclusions of this study include; First, we found that elementary teacher's beliefs of inquiry were represented variously. And they considered that inquiry is the important goal of science education. They though that the goal of science education is development of Scientific inquiry skills, Scientific thinking skills, development of Creativity and problem solving ability, increasing interest about science, understanding of the basic concepts of science and apply of real-life. second, most of the teachers though that Scientific inquiry is scientists activities, they defined 'the process of creation of new knowledge', 'the process of deriving theory', 'solving process of intellectual curiosity', 'Problem-solving process'. third, they considered that teaching method of scientific inquiry is open inquiry activities. however, they thought that there are many difficulties to actually apply. Understanding teachers' beliefs has implications for both the enactment of inquiry teaching in the classroom as well as the uptake of new teaching behaviors during professional development, with enhanced outcomes for engaging students in Science.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.202-212
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• 2004

The purpose of this study was to examine the connection among inquiry activities related to 'Metabolism' presented in life science textbooks developed according to the national common basic curriculum. To perform this, the type, process and context of inquiry activities of life science textbooks were analyzed. The number of inquiry activities is gradually increased from elementary to secondary school. As result of analysis, types, processes and skills, and context of inquiry were not balanced according to textbooks and school levels. It is suggested that the framework of evaluating inquiry activities based on curriculum objectives be provided when developing science textbooks. It also implies that teachers need to reconstruct inquiry contents and activities suitable to school situations when they teach in the real fields of education.