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Science Teachers' Perception and Attitudes toward Nanotechnology (과학교사의 나노기술에 대한 인식과 태도)

  • Kim, Hyun-Jung;Hong, Hun-Gi
    • Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.54 no.5
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    • pp.633-642
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    • 2010
  • In this study, science teachers' perception and attitude toward nanotechnology are examined through questionnaires gathered from 134 secondary science teachers. As a result, the study shows that science teachers have high perceptiveness. However, they do not understand specific information on nanotechnology correctly. Science teachers have positive attitudes toward nanotechnology and they have perceived risks of nanotechnology as well as benefits of nanotechnology. Science teachers show positive attitudes toward the application of nanotechnology, whereas they show negative attitudes toward personal information chip and nano-taste enhancer. Science teachers are exposed to nanotechnology via various sources such as TV and internet, whereas teachers rarely get information on nanotechnology-related concepts in textbooks and teaching resources. Science teachers have perceived many textbooks do not introduce enough nanotechnology-related concepts. Many teachers try to explain the nanotechnology when textbooks include nanotechnology-related concepts, whereas quite a few of teachers do not introduce the nanotechnology-related concepts in class.

Nurses' attitudes and stress related to perinatal bereavement care in Korea: a cross-sectional survey

  • Kim, Eunhui;Kim, Hae Won
    • Women's Health Nursing
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    • v.28 no.2
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    • pp.134-144
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    • 2022
  • Purpose: A descriptive correlational survey was conducted to examine nurses' attitudes and stress related to perinatal bereavement care (PBC) and their relationships, with the ultimate goal of improving nurses' capabilities related to PBC. Methods: Korean nurses (N=136) who had experienced perinatal death at least once were recruited from seven hospitals. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics. The Korean version of Nurses' Attitudes towards Perinatal Bereavement Support was assessed in terms of three subdomains (attitudes to PBC, importance of policies related to PBC, and importance of training related to PBC), and nurses' stress was measured. Results: The participants gave high scores for the attitude-related items of "giving sufficient time to bereaved parents to mourn for their dead baby" (4.54 points) and "nurses should treat bereaved parents with respect and dignity" (4.51 points), and they perceived a high level of importance for the policy-related items of "every staff member in the hospital should understand the policies relevant for PBC" and "when nurses feel emotional exhaustion, they should seek support" (4.58 points). Nurses' attitude toward PBC was associated with the perceived importance of policies (r=.40, p<.001), the perceived importance of PBC-related training (r=.61, p<.001), and stress related to PBC (r=.29, p<.001). Nurses' perceived importance of PBC-related training was associated with stress related to PBC (r=.38, p<.001). Conclusion: Establishing hospital policies related to PBC and providing PBC training for nurses could positively affect nurses' attitudes toward PBC. A stress management program for nurses could reduce the stress caused by PBC.

Secondary Students' Attitudes toward Science-technology Related Issues in Korea (과학.기술과 관련하여 사회적으로 쟁점화된 주제에 대한 중.고등학생의 태도)

  • Kim, Heui-Baik;Lee, Sun-Kyung
    • Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.461-469
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    • 1996
  • The purpose of this study was to assess the attitudes of secondary school students in Korea toward science-technology related issues. A questionnaire was designed in which students were confronted with personal, global, and philosophical levels of arguments, which were composed of three against and three in favor of each eight issues, i.e., use of antibiotics, family planning, transplant of organs, genetic engineering, use of microorganisms. exploitation of the sea, land reclamation from the sea, and nature reserves. Student was requested to rate each argument independently and to vote for or against each issue. It was shown that most of students voted in favor of using technologies except land reclamation from the sea, and that students having more learning experiences on each topic vote more favorably. It is thought that our science education might be effective in increasing awareness and appreciation of benifits of technology, but it is not as effective in developing ambivalence attitudes.

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An Investigation on High School Students' Chemistry-Related Environmental Conceptions and Environmental Attitudes (고등학생들의 화학 관련 환경 개념 및 환경에 대한 태도 조사)

  • Han, Jae-Young;Kang, Suk-Jin;Noh, Tae-Hee
    • Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.344-352
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    • 2000
  • In this study, high school students' environmental conceptions and attitudes, and their relationships with affective variables (self-esteem, enjoyment of science lesson, and leisure interest in science) were investigated. Students' environmental conceptions were found to be low, and male students' environmental conceptions were higher than female students. However, the environmental attitudes of female students were more positive than those of male students. There were no differences between male and female students in the ecocentric attitudes, but male students had more egocentric attitudes than female students. Students of higher prior science achievement level possessed higher level of environmental conceptions than their counterparts. Among the affective variables studied, leisure interest in science was significantly correlated with environmental attitudes.

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The Effects of Science Activities Motivated through Children's Songs on Young Children's Science-Related Attitudes, and Understanding of Science Process Skills (동요를 동기화한 과학활동이 유아의 과학관련태도 및 과학과정기술이해에 미치는 영향)

  • Na, Jung Sook;Kim, Kyung Sook;Kim, Hee Young
    • Korean Journal of Childcare and Education
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    • v.10 no.6
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    • pp.243-264
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    • 2014
  • The present study examined the effects of science activities motivated through children's songs on young children's science-related attitudes, and understanding of science processing. skills. The subjects of the present study were 40 children aged five, among them 20 children being assigned into an experimental group, and 20 children into a control group. An Hyun-Jeong's(2011). 'The Test of Science-Related Attitudes' and science process skills measurement questions from 'The Science Learning Assessment' by Samarapungavan, Mantzicopoulos, Patrick, and French (2009) were used after adapting them as research tools. The experimental group performed science activities motivated through children's songs 21 times, 3 times a week for 7 weeks; learning children's songs and asking science questions at the first stage, performing science activities at the second stage, and adapting children's songs based on the findings of science activities. The control group performed the learning of children's songs, science activities, and rhythmic activities in the same period. The pre- and post-test data were analyzed as at-test using SPSS program. The study results indicated that science activities motivated through children's songs were effective in improving young children's science-related attitudes and their understanding of science process skills.

The Effect of Science Lesson Emphasized the Creativity and Character on the Creativity and Science Related Attitudes of Elementary Students (창의·인성을 강조한 과학 수업이 초등학생의 창의성 및 과학 관련 태도에 미치는 영향)

  • Nam, Yun-Sun;Lee, Hyeong-Cheol
    • Journal of Science Education
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    • v.37 no.1
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    • pp.131-141
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    • 2013
  • The purpose of this study was to find out the effect of the science lesson emphasized creativity and character on the creativity and science related attitudes of elementary school students. To conduct this study, 'Unit 1. Weighing', which is a part of content of 4th grade science text book, was analyzed and 11 science lessons emphasized the elements of creativity and character were developed. One experimental group and one control group of 4th grade students were selected to perform a prior investigation. Then the experimental group attended developed science lessons and the control group attended the traditional science lessons based on the text book and teacher's guide. After conducting lessons, a post investigation was performed for each group and the results were analyzed to produce the following conclusions. First, the science lesson emphasized the creativity and character was more effective than traditional one to improve students' creativity. Especially, fluency, originality and abstractness in sub-elements of creativity, were improved meaningfully. Second, the science lesson emphasized the creativity and character was more effective than traditional one to enhance students' science related attitudes. Especially, in sub-domain, the attitude about scientific research and the application of scientific attitude were enhanced meaningfully. Consequently, science lesson emphasized the creativity and character was thought to have a positive effect on improving the creativity and science related attitudes of elementary students.

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The Effect on Academic Achievement and Science-Related Affective Domain of Elementary Students through Science Journal Writing (과학일지 쓰기가 초등학생의 과학 학업성취도와 정의적 영역에 미치는 영향)

  • Kwak, Min-Sook;Lee, Yong-Seob;Han, Young-Wook
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Earth Science Education
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.1-12
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    • 2009
  • The purpose of this study is to find out the effect on academic achievement and science-related affective domain of elementary students though science journal writing about the units of Science textbook of the first semester of the sixth grade. The results indicate that science-journal writing has influenced the students positively in the academic achievement of a lower group's academic achievements, in science related attitudes, 'voluntariness' and 'cooperation', in science learning motives, 'self-satisfaction for science', 'superficial strategies for science', and 'expectation for science', in fear level for science subjects, its lower fear class, 'experiment performance'. A middle group was revealed to have more positive improvement in 'cooperation' and 'perseverance', both of which were lower categories of science related attitudes, and as subgrade of science learning motives, 'self-efficiency for science' and 'expectation for science' stood out. For fear level for science subjects, the lower group gained distinctive results from 'science evaluation'.

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The Changes of Attitude Related to Science of Students in the High School Science Club through the Creative-Experience Activity of Science field (과학 분야의 창의적 체험활동을 통한 고등학교 과학동아리 학생들의 과학관련 태도 변화)

  • Kim, Jihyun;Kim, Jina
    • Journal of Science Education
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    • v.38 no.3
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    • pp.471-489
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    • 2014
  • This study was to investigate the changes of attitudes related to science of students in high school science club through modified the creative-experience activity model program. To begin with, using the creative-experience activity model program the programs adapted to the school practices have been developed through consultation of the teachers. The developed program was performed on students in the high school science club. Then we studied the changes of attitudes related to science of students through their outcomes of the activities and face-to-face talk. The change of attitudes related to science of students is positive, especially problem-solving, curiosity, a sense of responsibility, interests toward science, interests toward science related careers, and leisure interest in science. Interest for science as hobby were influenced by used tools like telescopes and experimental tools. Interest for science class were not effective to change to positive by creative experience activity. It seems to be due to creative experience activity were not connected with science class. The program to participate in the activities was more effective than to observe with visit for the change of the attitude related to science. Also, the programs with activities contained scientific knowledge were more effective.

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The Effect of Students' Science Club Activities on Science - Related Attitude (과학 동아리 활동이 학생의 과학과 관련된 태도에 미치는 영향)

  • Cho, Kyu-Seong;Kang, Cheul-Hyung
    • 한국지구과학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.09a
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    • pp.279-286
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    • 2005
  • This thesis aims to know about the effect science club activities have on the students' science-related attitude. The subjects are 551 high-school students who consists of the students who participate in science club activities and students who don't participate in science club activities. The questionnaires include the questions about cognition of science, interests toward science, and scientific attitudes which belong to the affective domain of Science. The answers are analyzed using by SPSS 11.5 program. This survey shows that whether or not students participate in science club activities affects the cognition of science, the interests toward science, and the scientific attitudes. In other words, science club activities affirmatively enhance the cognition of science, cultivate the thinking power about science, enlarge problem-solving ability by knowing how to survey natural phenomenon, increase the insight into science and help to cope with technological changes. Therefore, since science club activities affect the cognition of science, the interest toward science, and the scientific attitudes in the affective domain of Science, much consideration and concern should be given to science club activities so that students can cherish science club activities and deal with club activities with more attention.

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Effects of Environmental Education Program using Traditional Culture on Elementary School Students' Environmental Attitude (전통문화를 활용한 환경교육 프로그램이 초등학생의 환경태도에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Myung-Hwan;Kim, Nam-Il;Park, Heon-Woo
    • Journal of Korean Elementary Science Education
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    • v.32 no.3
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    • pp.239-249
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    • 2013
  • The elementary school age is a critical period in the formation of environmental attitudes, environmental knowledge, and sensitivity. In this study, we examined how they affect environmental education programs that utilize traditional culture in the 6th grade of elementary school students' environmental attitudes. Attitudes questionnaire and activity sheets were analyzed to figure out the change in attitude of the students, we analyzed the activity sheets. As a result, the environmental education program that utilize traditional culture had a positive impact on the improvement of elementary school students' environmental attitudes. Analysis of students' Internet bulletin board posts, the amount of writing was increased. In addition, the sensitivity to the environment of the students were changed. Students, was considered not related to their environmental problems. However, after programming experience, they found that environmental problems are directly related to them.