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The Development of an Instrument for Scientific Attitudes in School, Home and Social Situations and Selection of Scientific Attitude Elements (과학적 태도 요소 선정 및 학교, 가정, 사회 상황을 고려한 과학적 태도 측정 도구 개발)

  • Song, Young-Wook;Kim, Beom-Ki
    • Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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    • v.30 no.4
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    • pp.375-388
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    • 2010
  • The purpose of this study was to develop the instrument for scientific attitudes in school, home and social situations and select the important elements of scientific attitudes. Looking into the elements of scientific attitudes in national and international research, the important elements of scientific attitudes students should have were selected as follows: Openness, objectivity, continuousness, criticalness, prudence, volunteerism, honesty, preparedness, collaboration, and curiosity. To develop the valid instrument of scientific attitudes, we moved forward with the step of making preliminary questions, the judgment step, and the validation examination step. Based on the elements of scientific attitudes and school, family, and social situations, the instrument of the scientific attitudes was developed. We discovered that Middle school students' scientific attitudes, according to their grade levels, appear to be significantly lower than those in the 7th graders and 9th graders. The scientific attitudes in school, home and social situation appeared high in order of society, home, and school. It appeared that there were no differences by gender.

An Analysis on the Relation of Elementary Students' VARK Styles and Scientific Communication Skills (초등학생의 VARK 학습양식과 과학적 의사소통 능력의 관계)

  • Ha, Ji-Hoon;Shin, Youngjoon
    • Journal of Korean Elementary Science Education
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    • v.33 no.4
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    • pp.724-735
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    • 2014
  • The purpose of this study was to confirm correlation between elementary school students' VARK Learning styles test and Scientific Communication Skills through VARK questionnaire (version 7.3) for Youngers and Scientific Communication Skills Test. The subjects were 99 in 6th grade students of an elementary school located in Gyeonggi-do, Korea. The results of this study were as follows: 64% of the students had multiple learning styles, but only 36% of the students preferred a single mode of information presentation. Among students had a single mode preference, the aural ("A") was the highest unimodal preference. Among "V(visual)" mode, "A" mode, "R(read/write)" mode, and "K(kinesthetic)" mode, "A" mode was the commonest learning mode which students had. In Scientific Communication Skills Test, students' overall average was 26.19p [scientific explanation type (11.85p), scientific insistence type (14.34p)]. Girls' scores were higher than boys in scientific explanation type, but not in scientific insistence type. The scores by communication forms were Text (5.67p), Number (6.87p), Table (6.15p), and Picture (7.49p). Girls' scores were higher than boys in Text and Picture forms but not in Number and Table forms. In result of correlation analysis (Spearman's rho) between VARK Learning Styles and the types & forms of Scientific Communication Skills, there were common correlation in "Read/write (R) learning style-Scientific insistence type", "Read/write (R) learning style-Grounds of Scientific insistence", "Read/write (R) learning style-Description of Scientific explanation", and "R learning style-Text form".

Comparing Characteristics and Perceptions of Writing Science Poems for Scientifically-Gifted and General Elementary Students (초등 과학영재 학생과 일반 학생의 과학 동시 특성 및 과학 동시 쓰기에 대한 인식 비교)

  • Kim, Minji;Kang, Hunsik
    • Journal of Korean Elementary Science Education
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    • v.38 no.1
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    • pp.130-148
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    • 2019
  • This study compared the characteristics of scientific poems written by scientifically-gifted and general elementary students, and their perceptions of writing scientific poem. To do this, 5~6 graders (n=100) at two gifted science education institutes and 5~6 graders (n=93) at a elementary school in Seoul were selected. Scientific poems written by the students were analyzed according to their numbers and types. Their perceptions of writing scientific poems were also analyzed through a questionnaire and group interviews. The analysis of the results revealed that the general students wrote more scientific poems than the scientifically-gifted students for thirty minutes. The general students mainly named the titles in a direct way, while scientifically-gifted students did it in an implicit way. The free verse poems in both general students and scientifically-gifted students appeared most frequently, and the prose or narrative poems also often appeared. The general and scientifically-gifted students frequently used impersonation, and some students did not use metaphors. They didn't connect the scientific knowledge for multiple grade. While the poems of the general students evenly included the scientific knowledge for various academic fields, those of scientifically-gifted students tended to include the scientific knowledge for physics or chemistry. The poems of scientifically-gifted students tended to include more science process skills, especially in basic inquiry skills, than those of general students. The scientifically-gifted students wrote scientific poems in a more expanded form regarding the scientific knowledge, than the general students. Scientifically-gifted students perceived the educational benefits of writing scientific poems more positively based on various cognitive and affective aspects. However, many scientifically-gifted and general students had also several difficulties in the processes of writing scientific poems. Educational implications of these findings are discussed.

The Development and Application of Process-focused Assessment for Improving Scientific Communication Skills (과학적 의사소통 능력 향상을 위한 과정중심평가 개발 및 적용)

  • Jeon, Seongsoo
    • Journal of Korean Elementary Science Education
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    • v.38 no.1
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    • pp.16-30
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    • 2019
  • This study aimed to develop and apply the process-focused assessment, and verify the assessment's effectiveness for improving scientific communication skills in elementary science learning. To achieve the aims of this study, the unit "Action of Electricity" in elementary science text book for 5-6th students was selected, and then 13 process-focused assessments were developed to improve scientific communication skills. 119 elementary school students in 6th grade participated in this research. it was performed to compare between 60 students on the general assessment and 59 students on the process-focused assessment in the results of achievement levels on scientific concept and scientific communication skills. The results were as follows: First, this study showed that process-focused assessment had higher educational effectiveness in specific area of scientific communication skills than the general assessment. Second, the process-focused assessment can help to form students' scientific concepts as the general assessment. Furthermore, the process-focused assessment group was more effective at reducing the non-scientific concept than the general assessment.

An Entity-Aspect Model for Statistical and Scientific Databases (통계(統計)/과학(科學) 데이타 베이스를 위한 개체(個體)-측면(側面) 모형(模型))

  • Yoo, Cheol-Jung
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 1987.07b
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    • pp.1148-1152
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    • 1987
  • This paper analyzes the statistical and scientific entity-aspect model for statistical and scientific databases(SSDB's). The statistical and scientific entity-aspect model(SEAM) is defined an example of the application of the statistical and scientific entity-aspect model is represented. Finally, the statistical and scientific entity-aspect model as a design tool for SSDB is evaluated and the further research areas are suggested.

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