• 대한지구과학교육학회지
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.239-247
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• 2010

The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of an free inquiry method based on PBL(Problem-Based Learning: PBL) to improve students science process skills and self-directed learning characteristics. To verify this research, twenty-two third-grade students were selected from Chung-ryeol Elementary School located in Busan. They have received pre-test and post-test about their abilities in their science process skills and abilities for self-directed learning characteristics. Also, their self-reflection data was analyzed. The teaching and learning PBL process is to provide the information named 'I am the expert on Earth and Moon' which is recreated by analyzing the science curriculum and characteristics of students from Lesson 3 'Earth and Moon', and to make plans for solving the information with K/NK method. Then, to solve the information is gathered and investigated using the PBL workbook. Lastly, students present their finding using the free inquiry method in a group. The post-test showed following results : first, the free inquiry method based on PBL stimulates inquisitiveness in students about science learning and the research group shows improved science process skill. It shows us that using the free inquiry method based on PBL can be used effects to elevate science process skill. Second, the free inquiry method based on PBL has a positive effect on self-directed learning. The research tells us that using the free inquiry method based on PBL can improve a student self-directed learning characteristics.

• 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.

• 대한지구과학교육학회지
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.116-125
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• 2011

The purpose of this study is to make a Result analysis on the Free Inquiry Method of Elementary school student. Also, this study investigates how free inquiry activities effect the science creative problem solving ability and science process skills of Elementary school student. For this study 150, third year, elementary School students from Busan City were selected. The Inquiry examined the effectiveness of each of the following free inquiry methods: the Program Based Learning method, the Project method, the Independent Investigation Method, the Small Group Inquiry Method, and the Science Notebooks Method. The students were divided into groups in which they incorporated the respective methods into their practice. Test showed the following results: First, the Science Notebooks Method activities proved to be much more effective than the Program Based Learning method, the Project method, the Independent Investigation Method, the Small Group Inquiry Method, and the Science Notebooks Method in terms of developing on science creative problem solving ability. Second, the Project method activities proved to be much more effective than the Program Based Learning method, the Independent Investigation Method, the Small Group Inquiry Method, the Science Notebooks Method in terms of developing on science process skills.

• 한국생활과학회지
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.821-833
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• 2008

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of family related mathematical inquiry activities based on daily experiences on the young children's mathematical abilities. 38 three-years old children were selected from kindergarten in K City, Jeon-buk Province. Children were divided into 19 children for experimental group and 19 children for control group. And for the 5 weeks, the children in the experimental group participated in family related mathematical inquiry activities based on daily experiences. The Stanford Early School Achievement Test were used as both pre-test and post-test for the children's mathematical ability. And the data were analyzed by Independent-Sample t-test and ANCOVA. The results shows that the family related mathematical inquiry activities based on daily experiences had enhanced the children's mathematical abilities.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제33권4호
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• pp.773-783
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• 2014

In National Curriculum of Science revised in 2007, the Free Inquiry was newly introduced to increase students' interest in science and to foster creativity by having students make their own question and find answer by themselves. The purpose of the study was to analyze characteristics, in cognitive domain, appeared in the processes of performing the Free Inquiry activities applying a brain-based evolutionary science teaching and learning principles. For this study, 106 fifth grade students participated, and they performed individually Free Inquiry activities. In order to characterize of the diversifying, estimating-evaluating-executing, and extending-applying activities in cognitive domain (C-DEF), the Free Inquiry diary constructed by the students, observations by a researcher, and interviews with the students were analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively. The major results of this study were as follows: First, at C-D step, many students (71.5%) had difficulty in searching the meanings of their results and the contents of interpretations were at the level of simple description of their results. A few students (15.2%) derived interpretations based on causal relationships between specific variable and result. Also, the tendency that the numbers of interpretation about meaning of their results were increased as the scores of science attitude and achievement was appeared. Second, at C-E step, the students showed tendency of considering facts exactly explaining inquiry topic and being appliable to daily life rather than objectivity or accuracy of scientific knowledge. Third, at C-F step, there were three types of extension and application: simple repetition (8.2%), extension (64.0%), and upward application (17.6%) types. Based on these findings, implications for supporting appropriate interpretation, evaluation, and application of inquiry results are discussed.

• 공학교육연구
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.3-14
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• 2013

공학교육에 적용할 목적으로 효율적이고 정확한 개념 습득을 위한 탐구기반 개념학습 모형을 도입하고 이를 지원하는 탐구활동 지원도구를 개발하였다. 또한 이를 실제 교육현장에 적용하기 위하여 Windows 웹기반 응용프로그램인 온라인 학습 커뮤니티를 구축하였다. 여기에는 탐구기반 개념학습의 수업절차를 수행할 수 있도록 탐구활동 메뉴, 구성원 간의 커뮤니케이션 지원 기능, 정보공유 기능, 수업 및 탐구활동 스케쥴링 기능, 멘토링 기능, 온라인 활동 평가 기능 등이 포함되었다. 본 연구에서는 도출된 탐구활동 지원도구의 유용성을 검증하고 탐구활동 지원도구가 공학교육에서의 탐구기반 개념학습에 미치는 영향을 실험연구를 통하여 조사하고자 하였다. 실험연구 결과, 실험집단에게 탐구활동 지원도구를 오프라인 및 온라인으로 제공함으로써 비교집단에 비해 높은 메타인지와 효율적인 학습 수행을 지원하는 것이 가능하였으며 탐구활동을 촉진시킬 수 있음을 확인하였다. 또한, 학습자들의 개념이해능력에 있어서 탐구기반 개념학습의 수업절차, 탐구활동 지원도구, 교수자의 지원활동이 적용된 실험집단이 유의미한 차이를 보이는 것을 확인하였다.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제28권7호
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• pp.759-767
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• 2008

This article arose from the previous studies, which suggested a synthetic list for the nature of science (NOS), discussed the relationship between the NOS and scientific inquiry and the development of the NOS in the context of scientific inquiry. In this article, for teaching scientific inquiry through the NOS, I proposed three teaching models - reflection, interaction, and the direct model -. Within these teaching models, understanding the NOS is viewed as a prerequisite condition for the improved performance of scientific inquiry. In the reflection model, the NOS is embedded and reflected in scientific inquiry without explicit introduction or direct explanation of the NOS. In the interaction model, concrete interaction between scientific inquiry and the NOS is encouraged during the process of scientific inquiry. In the direct model, subsequent to directly comprehending the NOS at the first stage of activity, students conduct scientific inquiry based on their understanding of the NOS. The intention of this present article is to facilitate the use of these models to develop teaching materials for more authentic scientific inquiry.

• 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.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제40권3호
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• pp.307-320
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• 2020

본 연구에서는 탐구 수업 설계 강좌에서 공동의 탐구 수업을 설계하고 시연하였음에도 탐구 수업에 대한 서로 다른 인식적 이해를 보여준 예비교사인 도형과 진우에게 주목하여, 강좌에서 그들의 위치짓기가 탐구 수업에 대해 서로 다른 인식적 이해를 구성하는 과정에 어떻게 반영되었는지 탐색하였다. 이를 위해 두 예비교사의 탐구 수업 설계 및 시연 과정에서 만들어진 산출물들을 수집하고 수업 시연을 녹화 및 전사하였으며, 두 예비교사와의 논의를 녹음 및 전사하여 본 연구의 분석 자료로 활용하였다. 연구 결과, 도형은 강좌 전반에 걸쳐 교수자에게 평가받는 대상으로 위치한 것이 부각된 반면, 진우는 평가 대상으로 위치함과 함께 탐구 수업에 대한 이해를 구체화하고 수업 설계에 관한 전문성을 향상시키는 예비교사로 위치한 것 또한 강좌 전반에 걸쳐 나타났다. 도형과 진우의 위치짓기는 그들이 탐구 수업 설계 및 시연 과정에서 탐구 수업에 대한 인식적 이해를 정교화하는 과정에 반영되었다. 탐구 수업 설계 과정에서는 도형과 진우 모두 탐구 수업을 학생이 교사의 안내 하에 가설을 설정하고 검증하는 사고와 실행 과정을 수행하는 것으로 설명했다는 점에서 공통된 이해를 보였으나, 수업 시연에서 예상치 못한 상황을 마주하면서 상이한 인식적 이해를 구성하는 양상을 보였다. 도형은 자신이 계획대로 수업에서 일어날 수 있는 상황을 예상하고 그에 반응하여 좋은 평가를 받기 위해 학생들이 실험을 진행하여 교사가 예상한 실험 결과가 나오는 수업이라는 통제된 탐구 수업을 추구하였다. 그에 반하여 진우는 학생의 선지식을 바탕으로 한 추론 과정을 중시하면서 탐구 수업을 학생들이 그들의 선지식을 바탕으로 과학자들과 같은 추론 과정을 따라가 지식을 구성하는 과정이라고 이해하였다. 예비교사 교육 과정에서 예비교사의 위치짓기가 그들의 인식적 이해에 어떻게 반영되는지 탐색한 본 연구 결과는 탐구 수업에 대한 예비교사의 인식적 이해 정교화를 지원하는 전략을 마련하는 데에 기여할 것이다.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제38권6호
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• pp.865-874
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• 2018

본 연구의 목적은 고등학교 학생들의 소집단 자유 탐구 활동에서의 탐구 문제 발견 과정을 탐색하는 것이다. 이를 위하여 고등학교 2학년 학생 91명을 대상으로 자유 탐구를 수행하게 하였다. 한 학기(약 4개월) 동안 이루어진 탐구 과정 중 비교적 성공적으로 탐구를 수행한 15개 모둠, 48명의 학생들을 대상으로 모둠별 심층 면담을 실시하였다. 면담 결과를 바탕으로 학생들의 탐구 과정에서 나타난 탐구 문제 발견의 단계와 탐구 문제 발견을 위해 시도한 전략을 통해 탐구 문제 발견 과정의 특징을 분석하였다. 주요 연구 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 탐구 문제 발견 과정에서 주제어 선정, 문제점 제시, 의문점 제시, 탐구 문제 발견 등의 단계가 발견되었으며, 특히 탐구의 소재, 상황 등의 탐구 대상에 해당하는 주제어 선정 과정이 많이 발견되었다. 둘째, 학생들이 탐구 문제 발견 과정에서 사용한 전략으로는 정보 탐색, 선행 연구 탐색, 지식/경험의 공유, 지식/경험의 연결과 확장, 환경 인식, 전문가 자문, 적합성 논의, 정교화 등이 발견되었다. 셋째, 일상생활에서의 문제점을 발견하고 이를 해결하는 방안을 연구하는 형태의 탐구에서는 문제 발견 과정이 비교적 쉽게 이루어졌다. 넷째, 인터넷을 통한 선행 연구의 탐색은 주제어 선정 및 탐구 주제의 정교화 과정에서 유용하게 활용되었다. 다섯째, 학생들이 여러 개의 후보 탐구 주제 중 하나를 선택할 때 고려하는 주요 요인은 실행 가능성, 실생활 적용 가능성, 경제성 등이었다. 여섯째, 시사적인 상황이 탐구 주제 생성에 영향을 주었다. 이상의 내용을 바탕으로 학생들의 탐구 문제 발견을 도와 줄 수 있는 몇 가지 방안을 논의하였다.