• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제32권3호
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• pp.315-326
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• 2013

In this study, we investigated elementary school teachers' and students' perceptions of the reading materials in science textbooks. Participants were 181 teachers from 23 elementary schools who were teaching science and 643 third- to sixth-grade students from 12 elementary schools. A questionnaire for teachers consisted of 18 items and a questionnaire for students consisted of 11 items about their perceptions of the reading materials in science textbooks. Nine to twelve items, according to grades, examining the actual uses of each reading material in science textbooks were also included to both questionnaires. The results indicated that teachers have positive perceptions about reading materials and frequently use them in case of needs for supplement and/or enrichment of science learning. Novice teachers were found to have less positive perceptions about reading materials than expert teachers. Over 70 percent of students responded that they read all reading materials. Fifth- and sixth-grade students were tended to have less positive perceptions about reading materials than third-grade students. Finally, students tended to have more positive perceptions about reading materials than their teachers.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제36권2호
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• pp.129-142
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• 2017

In this study, the characteristics of the reading materials in elementary school science textbooks developed under the 2009 revised National Science Curriculum were investigated. The criteria for classifying the reading materials were the types of topic, purpose, students' activity, and presentation. The visual images in the reading materials were also analyzed from the viewpoint of type, role, caption type, and proximity type. The results indicated that the number of the reading materials in the 2009 revised science textbooks decreased compared to that of the 2007 revised science textbooks. It was also found that the frequencies of the reading materials expanding concepts of the text and/or requiring corresponding students' inquiry increased. More visual images were used in the reading materials of the 2009 revised science textbooks. However, several limitations were still found to exist; most visual images were illustration and/or picture; many visual images were presented without a caption; there was a problem in the proximity of visual image to text.

• 대한지구과학교육학회지
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.205-217
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• 2011

This study analyzed the reading materials presented in the existing 'Experiment Observation' targeting 31 elementary school students and conducted a preliminary investigation to examine the cause which makes the science reading materials of elementary school difficult to read. Also, on the basis of a preliminary investigation, this study developed the reading materials on science. After that, by examining the degree of understanding about existing reading materials on 'Experiment Observation' targeting 55 students of elementary schools and the newly developed reading materials targeting 44 students of elementary schools, the study proved its effect. As the result of the study, the causes for which students felt difficulty in reading were as follows: the scientific or non-scientific terms were explained by using more higher levels of Chinese characters compared to the levels of students; the scientific terms never treated in the classroom were used in the reading materials without any explanation; the overall structure of existing reading materials was distracted and listed the fragments of information, and the sentences were described complicatedly; the contents of a text and the photo materials were not connected functionally. In addition, the newly developed science reading materials were preferred by students because more various methods were devised, such as more systematic structure, arrangements of simpler sentence structure, additional explanation of scientific terms, divisions of paragraphs and postscript and their understanding was found to be improved.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제33권3호
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• pp.479-490
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• 2014

In this study, we investigated the characteristics of the reading materials in the elementary school science textbooks in order to obtain implications for the effective use of them. The reading materials in the elementary school science textbooks developed under the 7th and the 2007 revised National Science Curricula were analyzed. The criteria for classifying the reading materials were the type of theme, purpose, students' activity, the type of presentation, the type of images, the role of images, and readability. The results indicated that the reading materials in the 2007 revised science textbooks are more systematic than those in the 7th science textbooks in terms of their length and their distribution among energy, matter, life, and earth areas. It was also found that various types of reading materials are presented in the 2007 revised science textbooks covering new themes such as frontier science, job opportunity and career, and environment. In addition, the reading materials in the 2007 revised science textbooks introduce more visual images and the readability of them are also better than their counterpart. However, several limitations were still found to exist in the reading materials of the 2007 revised textbooks; most of them are non-inquiry and explanatory; most of the visual images are illustration and/or pictures. Educational implications are discussed.

• 대한화학회지
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• 제63권2호
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• pp.111-122
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• 2019

이 연구에서는 2009 개정 과학교육과정에 따른 초등학교와 중학교 과학 교과서의 화학 영역 및 화학 I, II 교과서의 읽기자료를 분석하였다. 읽기자료는 주제, 목적, 제시 형식, 학생 활동 유형 측면에서 분석하였다. 읽기자료에 사용된 시각자료도 유형, 역할, 캡션과 인덱스, 텍스트와의 근접성 등의 측면에서 분석하였다. 연구 결과, 초등학교 과학 교과서가 중학교 과학과 화학 I, II 교과서보다 읽기자료 비율이 높았다. 초등학교 과학 교과서에는 실생활 응용 유형의 읽기자료가 많았으나, 중학교 과학과 화학 I, II 교과서에는 과학 지식 유형이 상대적으로 많았다. 초등학교 과학 교과서에는 개념 심화 유형의 읽기자료가 상대적으로 많았고 중학교 과학과 화학 I, II 교과서에는 개념 보충 유형의 읽기자료가 상대적으로 많았다. 읽기자료에 사용된 시각자료는 대부분 사진이나 삽화였고, 본문 보조나 본문 부연 역할의 시각자료가 많았고, 캡션이나 인덱스를 사용하지 않은 시각자료가 많았으며, 시각자료와 텍스트 사이의 근접성에도 문제점이 나타났다.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제41권4호
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• pp.642-657
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• 2022

이 연구는 과학 읽기 자료를 이용한 협력적 문제해결 중심 과학 수업이 초등학교 학생들의 과학 읽기 능력에 미치는 영향을 알아보는 것을 목적으로 하였다. 연구 대상은 초등학교 5학년으로 실험집단은 과학 읽기 자료를 이용한 협력적 문제해결 중심 과학 수업을 실시하였고 비교집단은 교과서에 바탕을 둔 과학 수업을 실시하였으며 과학 읽기 능력 검사지, 모둠별 논의과정 녹음본과 수업 녹화본을 수집하여 분석하였다. 연구 결과, 과학 읽기 자료를 이용한 협력적 문제해결 중심 과학 수업은 초등학교 학생들의 과학 읽기 능력의 향상에 효과가 있었다. 과학 읽기 능력 검사 결과, 총점 및 3개 하위 요소 모두에서 실험집단은 비교집단보다 통계적으로 유의미하게 높게 나타났으며, 특히 높은 수준의 인지 과정에 속하는 '성찰 및 평가'와 '통합 및 해석'이 큰 비율로 증가하였다. 학생들은 이 수업에서 교사가 제시한 자료를 읽고 읽은 내용을 바탕으로 논의에 참여하며, 읽은 내용과 읽기 과정에 대한 반성을 하게 된다. 이러한 과정에서 학생들의 과학 읽기 능력이 향상된 것으로 보인다.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제26권5호
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• pp.475-488
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• 2007

The purpose of this study was to investigate elementary students' difficulties when they read the illustrations on scientific textbook. 5 illustrations were selected on basis that they had some of the textual/graphical features. The data were collected from open-ended questionnaires and follow-up interviews. To investigate difficulties of reading illustrations, 100 sixth grade students participated in this study and interviews were taken to 9 volunteers among those participants. The results showed that many students had difficulties in the integration of verbal representation and realistic image representation on the illustration, therefore they often misunderstood the meaning of illustration. These results gave several recommendations when we used illustrations as educational materials. Teachers would be better to guide that students could understand illustrations with the integration of the reading of one or more representations.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.166-185
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• 2010

Astronomy areas in the elementary science textbooks of Korea and the U.S.A. have been compared to find advantages and disadvantages of Korean textbooks. The analysis objects are the 7th national curriculum science textbooks for Korea and the Macmillan McGraw-Hill(MMH) science textbooks for the U.S.A. The results are as follows: First, in contexts, Korean science textbooks contain mostly inquiry activities and partly reading materials. However, MMH ones contain mostly explanations including photographs, related activities, and various reading materials. Second, in the contents and order, the observation activities of constellations are emphasized in Korean science textbooks, while the MMH ones explain solar system up to the universe in details. In addition, Korean science textbooks deal with one subject only once during the whole elementary course while MMH ones deal with one subject repeatedly in several grades. Third, in the frameworks of the international mathematics and science study (TIMSS) 2007, Korean science textbooks do not introduce some contents presented in TIMSS 2007, whereas MMH textbooks introduce every one of them in time. Fourth, the major subjects such as change of moon phases, constellations, the solar system, and change of seasons are handled independently in Korean science textbooks without strong correlation, while they are systematically done related with the rotation and the revolution of the earth in MMH ones.

• 과학교육연구지
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• 제40권3호
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• pp.238-253
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• 2016

본 연구는 인쇄물 형태의 학습안내 제시물을 활용하여 초등학교 과학 수업에서 거꾸로 수업을 실시했을 때 어떤 효과가 있는 지를 알아보기 위한 것이다. 연구는 6학년 학생을 대상으로 실시하였으며, 학급의 학습 분위기와 성취가 유사한 2개 반을 선정하여 연구반(27명)과 비교반(26명)으로 각각 1학급씩 선정하였다. 연구반의 경우 인쇄물 형태의 학습안내 제시물을 활용한 거꾸로 수업을 적용한 과학 수업이 진행되었고, 비교반의 경우 기존 과학 수업의 형태로 진행되었다. 연구 결과 학습안내 제시물을 활용한 거꾸로 수업의 학습동기 측면에서 효과를 살펴본 결과, 내적 동기 영역에서 학생들의 호기심을 향상시키고, 과제가치 영역에서의 과학 수업 내용에 대한 관심을 높이는데 효과적이었으나 학업성취도에는 큰 차이가 없었다. 그러나 인쇄물 형태의 학습안내 제시물을 활용한 거꾸로 수업은 의사소통과 교육환경 측면에서 가장 큰 만족을 느끼는 것으로 나타났다.

• 한국도서관정보학회지
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• 제1권
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• pp.53-67
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• 1974

This study aims at diagnozing the existing school library laws and their enforcement regulations together with the library organization, and finding out any problems in them for the lack of legal and administrative suppxt has been considered the main hindrances to the developrnent of school library. The results of the work are as follows: 1. Full use of materials on the part of students is impossible because there is description in the school facilitier enforcement regulations except that of reading room. 2. No administrative consederation on the school library. 3. No incentive to be an able librarians because there is no devision in the lebrary teacher eligibility between the elementary and secondary level.