• 과학교육연구지
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• 제43권2호
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• pp.227-238
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• 2019

이 연구에서는 데이터 기반 과학탐구에서 탐구활동과 협력적 문제해결력에 대한 초등학생들의 인식을 알아보고자 하였다. 이를 위해 경남 소재 도시의 초등학생 고학년 26명을 대상으로 20차시의 데이터 기반 과학탐구 수업을 진행하였다. 학생들은 탐구 문제를 선정한 후 디지털 탐구도구로 데이터를 수집하는 탐구 과정을 수행하였다. 수업 후 인식 조사 설문과 면담을 통해 다음과 같은 결과를 얻었다. 첫째, 학생들은 데이터 기반 과학탐구에서 '탐구 설계 및 수행' 단계가 가장 유익한 것으로 인식하였다. 둘째, 학생들은 데이터 기반 과학탐구를 통해 과학적 능력과 협동심이 향상되었고, 탐구문제 선정이 가장 어렵다고 인식하였다. 셋째, 학생들은 협력적 문제해결력의 향상에 대해 긍정적으로 인식하였다. 이상의 결과로부터 데이터 기반 과학탐구는 초등학생들의 과학적 탐구능력과 협력적 문제해결력 향상을 위해 필요함을 알 수 있었다. 이 연구를 바탕으로 다양한 탐구활동의 개발과 연구를 통해 미래를 살아갈 학생들에게 필요한 다양한 역량들을 함양할 수 있는 탐구 기회가 제공되기를 기대한다.

• 한국지구과학회지
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.194-204
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• 2004

The purpose of this literature review is to investigate what kinds of research have been done about scientific inquiry in terms of scientific argumentation in the classroom context from the upper elementary to the high school levels. First, science educators argued that there had not been differentiation between authentic scientific inquiry by scientists and school scientific inquiry by students in the classroom. This uncertainty of goals or definition of scientific inquiry has led to the problem or limitation of implementing scientific inquiry in the classroom. It was also pointed out that students' learning science as inquiry has been done without opportunities of argumentation to understand how scientific knowledge is constructed. Second, what is scientific argumentation, then? Researchers stated that scientific inquiry in the classroom cannot be guaranteed only through hands-on experimentation. Students can understand how scientific knowledge is constructed through their reasoning skills using opportunities of argumentation based on their procedural skills using opportunities of experimentation. Third, many researchers emphasized the social practices of small or whole group work for enhancing students' scientific reasoning skills through argumentations. Different role of leadership in groups and existence of teachers' roles are found to have potential in enhancing students' scientific reasoning skills to understand science as inquiry. Fourth, what is scientific reasoning? Scientific reasoning is defined as an ability to differentiate evidence or data from theory and coordinate them to construct their scientific knowledge based on their collection of data (Kuhn, 1989, 1992; Dunbar & Klahr, 1988, 1989; Reif & Larkin, 1991). Those researchers found that students skills in scientific reasoning are different from scientists. Fifth, for the purpose of enhancing students' scientific reasoning skills to understand how scientific knowledge is constructed, other researchers suggested that teachers' roles in scaffolding could help students develop those skills. Based on this literature review, it is important to find what kinds of generalizable teaching strategies teachers use for students scientific reasoning skills through scientific argumentation and investigate teachers' knowledge of scientific argumentation in the context of scientific inquiry. The relationship between teachers' knowledge and their teaching strategies and between teachers teaching strategies and students scientific reasoning skills can be found out if there is any.

• 대한화학회지
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• 제64권4호
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• pp.210-224
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• 2020

본 연구는 1년간 동료 교사들과 과학 탐구 수업을 협력적으로 계획하여 수행한 다섯 명의 중학교 과학 교사들이 과학 탐구 수업에 대하여 어떠한 교수 지향을 가지고 있는지 밝히는 것을 목적으로 한다. 본 연구에서는 사전·사후 설문과 면담, 교사들의 협력적 수업 계획 및 성찰 대화, 개별 수업 관찰 및 수업 후 면담 자료를 수집하여 분석하였다. 본 연구의 교사들이 가지고 있는 과학 탐구 교수 지향은 다음과 같이 4가지로 나타났다. 첫째, 본 연구의 교사들은 학생이 과학 탐구를 수행하여 스스로 과학 개념을 형성하고 과학적 소양을 함양하는 것이 중요한 과학 교육 목표라는 '과학 탐구 교육 목표'에 관한 믿음을 가지고 있었다. 둘째, 교사의 치밀한 수업 설계와 학생의 능동적인 과학 탐구 수행을 통해 진정한 과학 학습이 이루어진다는 '과학 탐구 교수-학습'에 관한 지식과 믿음을 가지고 있었다. 셋째, 논의를 활용한 교수가 학생의 사고를 구체화하고 조직하여 과학 학습에 효과적이라는 '논의 기반 과학 교수-학습'에 관한 지식과 믿음을 가지고 있었다. 마지막으로 과학 탐구가 과학적 증거와 사회적 합의를 통해 과학 지식을 형성한다는 '과학 지식 및 과학 탐구의 본성'에 관한 인식론적 믿음을 가지고 있었다. 본 연구의 교사들이 과학 탐구 수업에 대하여 실천적이고 구체적인 교수 지향을 가지게 된 것은 1년 동안 동료 교사와 함께 과학 탐구 수업 계획 및 실행을 하고 성찰하며 수업을 개선한 교사학습공동체 경험과 관련되는 것으로 사료된다.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제27권8호
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• pp.724-742
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• 2007

The purpose of this study was to develop a scientific inquiry model that makes scientific inquiry accessible to science teachers as well as students. To develop a scientific inquiry model, we investigated the research process demonstrated by ten scientists who were working at academic research institutions or industrial research institutions. We collected data through scientists' journal articles, lab meetings and seminars, and observation of their inquiry process. After we analyzed the scientists' inquiry strategies and processes of inquiry, we finally developed the Scientist's Methodology of Investigation Process model named SMIP. The SMIP model consists of four domains, 15 stages, and link questions, such as "if, why", and "how". The SMIP model stressed that inquiry process is a selective process rather than a linear or a circular process. Overall, these findings can have implication science educators in their attempt to design instruction to improve the scientific inquiry process.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제42권2호
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• pp.177-184
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• 2022

This article aims to explain the concept and characteristics of the 'Intelligent Science Lab', which is being promoted nationwide in Korea since 2021. The Korean Ministry of Education creates a master plan containing a vision for science education every five years. The most recently announced '4th Master plan for science education (2020-2024)' emphasizes the policy of setting up an 'intelligent science lab' in all elementary and secondary schools as an online and offline space for scientific inquiry using advanced technologies, such as Internet of Things and Augmented and Virtual Reality. The 'Intelligent Science Lab' project is being pursued in two main directions: (1) developing an online platform named 'Intelligent Science Lab-ON' that supports science inquiry classes, and (2) building a science lab space in schools that encourages active student participation while utilizing the online platform. This article presents the key features of the 'Intelligent Science Lab-ON' and the characteristics of intelligent science lab spaces newly built in schools. Furthermore, it introduces inquiry-based science learning programs developed for intelligent science labs. These programs include scientific inquiry activities in which students generate and collect data ('data generation' type), utilize datasets provided by the online platform ('data utilization' type), or utilize open and public data sources ('open data source' type). The Intelligent Science Lab project is expected to not only encourage students to engage in scientific inquiry that solves individual and social problems based on real data, but also contribute to presenting a model of online and offline linked scientific inquiry lessons required in the post-COVID-19 era.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.353-366
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• 2011

An alternative vision for science inquiry that appears to be important and challenging is model-based inquiry in which students generate, evaluate and revise their explanatory model. Pre-service teachers should be given opportunities to develop and use their mechanistic explanatory models in order to participate in the practice of science and to have a sound understanding of science. With this view, this study described a case of pre-service elementary teachers' scientific modeling in magnetism. The aims of this study were to explore difficulties preservice elementary teachers encountered while they engaged in a model-based inquiry, and to examine how their understandings of the nature of scientific models changed after the model-based inquiry. The data analysis revealed that the pre-service teachers had difficulties in drawing and writing their own thinking because they had little experience of expressing their own science ideas. When asked to predict what would happen, they could not understand what it meant to make a prediction "based on their model". They did not know how to use or consider their model in making a prediction. At the end of the model-based inquiry they reached a final consensus of a best model. However, they were very anxious about whether the model was the "correct" answer. With respect to the nature of scientific models, almost all of the pre-service teachers initially viewed models only as a communication tool among scientists or students and teachers to help understand others' ideas. After the model-based inquiry, however, many of them understood that they could create, test, and revise their "own" models "by themselves". They also realized the key aspects of scientific models that a model can be changed as evidence is accumulated and a model is a knowledge production tool as well as a communication tool. The results indicated that pre-service elementary teachers' understandings of the nature of scientific models and their previous school science experiences could affect their performance on a model-based inquiry, and their experience of scientific modeling could help them enhance their understandings of the nature of scientific models.

• 과학교육연구지
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• 제44권2호
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• pp.205-213
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• 2020

이 연구에서는 디지털 탐구도구로 측정한 데이터를 활용하는 과학 탐구 수업에서 초등학생의 지식정보처리역량과 협력적 문제해결력에 미치는 영향을 알아보고자 하였다. 이를 위해 경남 S시의 초등학교 5학년 3개 학급을 실험집단, 3개 학급을 통제 집단으로 선정하였다. 통제집단은 전통적인 강의식 수업을 하였고, 실험집단은 과학데이터를 활용하는 과학 탐구 수업을 하였다. 수업 후 검사를 통해 다음과 같은 결과를 얻었다. 첫째, 과학데이터를 활용하는 과학 탐구 수업은 초등학생들의 지식정보처리 역량 향상에 도움을 주었다. 둘째, 과학데이터를 활용하는 과학 탐구 수업은 초등학생의 협력적 문제 해결력을 신장시켰다. 이상의 결과로부터 과학데이터를 활용하는 과학 탐구 수업은 초등학생의 지식정보처리역량과 협력적 문제해결력 향상을 위해 필요함을 알 수 있었다. 이번 연구를 바탕으로 향후 디지털 탐구도구로 측정한 데이터를 활용하는 과학 탐구를 활성화할 수 있는 구체적인 교수·학습 환경에 관한 연구가 필요하다.

• 한국지구과학회지
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• 제33권5호
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• pp.459-466
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• 2012

This study aimed to investigate the characteristics of pre-service elementary teachers' understanding about scientific inquiry in terms of designing exploration and reasoning that is used to formulate explanations based on evidence. The research context was an open inquiry with using the Science Writing Heuristic (SWH) template in which participant students were not provided with inquiry questions. As data, lab. 39 pre-service elementary teachers participated in this study while taking their science methods course. Analyses of the reports were framed by the cognitive processes of inquiry (Chinn and Malhotra, 2002) and each report was coded and analyzed by the framework of inquiry (Tytler and Peterson, 2004). Results showed that groups' works that utilized the SWH template encouraged the participants to interact each other about scientific inquiry. They came up with more relevant and testable questions for their scientific inquiry. It implicates that children will be able to have chances of testing their own questions more properly by using the SWH template in science classes just as the participants did in this study. The use of the SWH template would help pre-service teachers to teach appropriately how to test inquiry questions to their students in the future. Discussion was made to figure out the characteristics or Korean pre-service elementary teachers' understanding about scientific inquiry.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.414-426
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• 2010

For this study, inquiry-based learning program was developed for promoting elementary students' scientific justification activities based on their uses of scientific evidences. The program was applied to the 5th grade science class to examine the types of evidences and major features of scientific justification activities. Analysis of the data showed that the evidences used by students were classified into knowledge-based evidence, experience-based evidence and authority-based evidence. As for students' justification features, this study reports three major cases: a case evolving evidence and justification to become more valid and logical, as inquiry activities progressed, other case maintaining less valid and illogical evidence and justification, and final case revealing passive and reluctant participation in the inquiry activities. Overall, students' participation in scientific justification process became more valid and relevant, while there were some students who were unable to make the relevant relations between evidences and claims they made. The educational implications were discussed to consider more effective ways to improve the scientific classroom environment through social knowledge construction.

• 대한화학회지
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• 제58권6호
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• pp.658-666
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• 2014

이 연구의 목적은 예비과학교사의 논의 중심 과학 탐구에 대한 이해와 인식을 알아보는 것이다. 대도시 소재 사범대학 과학교육과에서 예비과학교사 17명을 대상으로 화학교과교재 및 연구법 수강이전과 이후에 실시한 서술형 설문과 사후개별 면담 자료를 연속적 비교분석법으로 분석하였다. 사후 설문 및 면담에서 과학 탐구의 중요한 요소로서 논의를 언급하고, 탐구 문제에 대한 주장과 근거를 협상하는 과정으로서 논의의 역할을 이해하는 예비과학교사의 수가 사전보다 늘어났다. 예비과학교사들은 논의가 강조된 탐구 중심 과학 수업의 중요성을 인식함에도 불구하고 여러 가지 어려움과 문제점에 대한 우려를 하고 있었다. 사전에는 학생들의 소극적인 논의 참여를 어려움으로 인식하는 반면, 사후에는 예비교사 자신의 수업지도안 계획 또는 학생들의 논의를 안내하는 어려움에 대하여 언급하는 경우가 많았다.