• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제39권3호
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• pp.382-398
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• 2020

This study aims to analyze the relationship between scientific content knowledge of science-gifted elementary students and their expression of scientific creativity, and the characteristics of divided groups according to the levels of their scientific content knowledge and scientific creativity. A science-gifted program was implemented to 33 forth-graders in the Science-Gifted Education Center of an education office in Seoul, Korea. The method of evaluating scientific knowledge was divided into well-structured paper-pencil test (asking specific and limited range of content knowledge of plants) and ill-structured descriptive test (stating all the knowledge they know about plants) to find out which methods were more related to scientific creativity. In addition, in order to find out the characteristics of each group according to the level of scientific content knowledge and scientific creativity, students were required to answer a questionnaire about their own self-perception of scientific knowledge and scientific creativity and how to obtain scientific knowledge. The main results of this study are as follows. First, Both well-structured paper-pencil test (r=.38) and ill-structured descriptive test (r=.51) results of elementary science gifted students were significantly correlated with scientific creativity. Second, As a result of the regression analysis on scientific creativity of science-gifted elementary students, both the knowledge measured by the two evaluation methods have the ability to explain scientific creativity. Third, the students were categorized into four groups according to the levels of their scientific content knowledge and their expression of scientific creativity, and the result showed that the higher the knowledge of science, the higher the scientific creativity. Fourth, the description about self-perception of scientific knowledge revealed that the highest percentage of Type LL students of all 13 students (53.8%, 7 students) answered 'I have little knowledge of plants because I have little interest in them.' Fifth, the description about self-perception of scientific knowledge revealed that the highest percentage of Type HH students of all 15 students (40%, 6 students) answered 'I think my science creativity is high through my experience of scientific creativity. Sixth, the responses to the Questionnaire revealed that 'reading' was the most popular way to obtain scientific knowledge, with 27 out of total 33 students choosing it. In particular, all 18 students from Type HH (high scientific knowledge and high scientific creativity) and Type HL (high scientific knowledge and low scientific creativity) - those with high scientific knowledge - gave that response. On the basis of this research, we should explore practical teaching methods and environment for gifted students to improve their scientific creativity by revealing the nature of the factors that affect scientific creativity and analyzing relationship between knowledge and scientific creativity.

• 한국보육지원학회지
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• 제11권6호
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• pp.97-114
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• 2015

이 연구는 어린이집 영아반 및 유아반 교사의 과학교수효능감을 예측하는 과학 교과교육학지식, 과학적 태도, 과학교수 적극성의 상대적 영향력을 알아보기 위하여 실시되었다. 어린이집 교사 208명을 대상으로 질문지 조사를 실시하였으며, 수집된 자료는 피어슨의 상관관계 분석과 단계적 중다회귀분석을 통해 분석하였다. 연구결과 어린이집 교사의 과학교수효능감에는 과학적 태도, 과학교수 적극성, 과학 교과교육학지식의 하위변인인 교수학습방법에 대한 지식 순으로 영향력을 가졌다. 영아반 교사는 과학교수 적극성, 과학적 태도의 순으로 과학교수효능감에 영향을 많이 주었고 유아반 교사는 과학적 태도, 교수학습방법에 대한 지식 순으로 과학교수효능감에 영향을 미쳤다. 이 연구결과는 어린이집 교사의 과학교수효능감을 증진시키는 것을 목표로 하는 영아반, 유아반 교사 대상 맞춤형 현직교사교육 프로그램 구성에 기초적인 자료를 제공할 것으로 기대한다.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.1-22
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• 2004

The primary purpose of this study is to investigate the applicability of content and formal schemata for processing the scientific texts which encompass the human knowledge of the physical world. In general, schema theory is based on the culture-oriented background of a text. From this point of view, the problem as to whether both content and formal schemata are applicable to the comprehension of a scientific text deserves a focal attention in terms of information processing modes. The results of empirical study indicate that whereas the universality of general knowledge content about the natural world attenuates the tenets of schema theory, the rhetorical organization of scientific texts encourages the application of the schema-based approach; the reader's familiarity with the structural patterns of a text facilitates his reading comprehension.

• 한국지구과학회지
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.160-175
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• 2004

This study examined the knowledge and practices of scientific inquiry displayed by three student teachers and two beginning teachers at secondary levels. Observations using the instrument of OTOP designed by the research team of OCEPT (Oregon Collaborative for Excellent in the Preparation of Teachers) generalized similar teaching strategies of scientific inquiry between student and beginning teachers, such as using group work for students' first hand experience, using concrete materials for experimentation or visual tools for demonstration, using questions for factual knowledge mainly without opportunities to understand how scientific knowledge is constructed. Those scientific inquiry activities were very confirmative ones to follow the steps without opportunities of understanding nature of science or nature of scientific inquiry. However, all participants in this study hold knowledge of scientific inquiry envisioned by the National Science Education Standards [NSES] (NRC, 1996), where students identify their hypothesis, use critical and logical thinking, and consider alternative explanations through argumentation as well as experimentation. An inconsistent relationship between participating teachers knowledge and practices about scientific inquiry resulted from their lack of pedagogy skills of implementing it in the classroom. Providing opportunities for these teachers to reflect on their beliefs and practices about scientific inquiry was recommended for the future study. Furthermore, increasing college faculty interest in new teaching approaches for upgrading the content knowledge of student teachers and beginning teachers was recommended as a solution, since those teachers showed evidence of influence by college faculties at universities in their pedagogy skills.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.325-331
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• 1995

The purpose of this study is to analyze learning objectives of biology contents in SATIS 14-16. Modified the 5th NAEP three dimentional science assessment framework was used to analyze learning objectives of SATIS 14-16. This study will be a basic data for the development of STS programs in KOREA. The following results were obtained. 1. In a content dimension, 'structures and functions of organism'(63.9%) was the most frequently found, followed by 'the nature and our Iives'(22.1%), 'a continuity of Iife'(9.4%) and 'our surrounding Iives'(4.7%). 2. In a cognitive dimension, an understanding of scientific knowledge(32.7%) was the most frequently found, followed by an improvement of inquiry ability(25.6%), attitude(24.7%), and scientific knowledge and its application(17.0%). 3. In a context dimension, a personal context(32.8%) was the most frequently found, followed by a social context(27.3%), a scientific context(20.0%) and a technological context(20.0%). 4. There were some differences in behavior when each content was compared. In 'surrounding lives' and 'a continuity of life', an understanding of scientific knowledge was the most frequently found. In 'structures and functions of organism' and 'the nature and our lives', proportions of four behavioral catagories were relatively even. 5. There were some differences in context when each content was compared. In 'surrounding lives', scientific context was the most frequently found, whereas in 'structures and functions of lives', individual context was found the most frequently. In 'a continuity of life', scientific and social context were found more frequently than others. In 'the nature and our lives', social context was the most frequent one.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제11권11호
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• pp.503-513
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• 2011

일반인들의 자연에 대한 감상과 생명과학의 이해는 오늘날 과학의 대중화에서 큰 역할을 차지하고 있다. 특히 일반인의 관심이 높은 전시와 같은 비형식 과학교육은 생태학, 동물행동학, 환경학 등 거시생물학적 분야의 내용이 주를 이루고 있다. 그렇지만 전문가의 참여 부재, 자연 현상의 피상적인 기술 등의 이유로 대중에게 효과적으로 전달되고 있지 않다. 정보와 지식은 그 자체로는 수용자가 곧바로 이해하고 받아 들일 만한 형태 및 구조를 가지지 못하다. 생명과학 지식을 일반인에게 효과적으로 전달하기 위해서는 콘텐츠를 유형별로 분류하고 콘텐츠화 하는 가공 과정이 필요하다. 주제의 선정 단계에서부터 내용의 편집 및 표현 단계까지의 일련의 과정으로서 관련 분야의 전문가인 과학자의 적극적인 역할이 강조된다. 콘텐츠화 과정은 과학적, 논리적 사고방식과 더불어 예술적 표현 및 소통 능력을 필요로 한다. 과학의 대중화를 위한 이론적 및 실천적 틀로서 통역의 개념을 제안한다.

• 천문학논총
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• 제26권3호
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• pp.89-101
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• 2011

The International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA) initiated by the Thailand Astronomical Society in 2007 is an annual competition for high school students. One of its aim is to enhance the development of international exchange in the field of school education in astronomy and astrophysics. This paper first provides the overview of the IOAA in terms of key regulations based on its statutes, history and current status. Secondly, the published syllabus of the IOAA is used for content analysis according to subject areas regarding the exam questions of the IOAA in theoretical, observational and data analysis parts from 2007 to 2010. Also, a scientific inquiry framework is applied to the same questions for assessment based on scientific inquiry in the cognitive aspect with two sub-classes of scientific knowledge and scientific reasoning. Among a dozen astronomy subject areas listed on the syllabus, the theoretical part of the IOAA makes more frequent use of the Sun, the solar system, properties of stars, and concept of time. In content knowledge, a factor of scientific knowledge, the IOAA questions, especially in the theoretical part have a lesser degree in difficulty than the IAO (International Astronomy Olympiad) exam questions for the same period whose degree in difficulty is comparable to college level. With regard to scientific reasoning, the IOAA questions tend to involve convergent rather than divergent thinking. Lastly, in light of these findings, discussions are given on the outcome of Korean participation in the previous IOAAs and ways to help better in preparing Korean students for future astronomy Olympiads.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.452-458
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• 1995

Science textbooks are very important materials in order to know elementary science learning in Japan and Korea. In this research the 5th grade science textbooks in Japan and Korea are analyzed by an analyzing category. The analyzing category is consisted of knowledge and scientific inquiry. Knowledge is divided by fact, concept, and rule. Scientific inquiry is divided by problem cognition, variable control, experiment planning, observing, measuring, categorizing, inferring, data transformation, predicting, correlation, cause and effect, result, communication, which are 13 subcategories. Analyzing methods are counting the frequency of each subcategory and tabulating the data. The results of this study are: 1. The frequency of scientific inquiry appeared in Korean 5th grade science textbooks is three times more than that in Japanese textbooks. 2. In scientific inquiry category, Japanese science textbooks emphasized observing, predicting, measuring and problem cognition; Korean science textbooks emphasized experiment planning, observing and problem cognition. 3. In knowledge category, fact subcategory is mostly emphasized in both countries.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.268-280
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• 2005

Teaching with laboratory activities in school science, which are distinctive characteristic, is placed from other disciplines fur teaming almost 200 hundred years ago. A number of science educators have suggested that there are rich benefits in teaming from using laboratory activities. At these time, however, some educators have begun to seriously question the effectiveness and the role of laboratory activities. There are some causes related to obscure and vague aims of laboratory activities. The purposes of this paper is to review aims of laboratory activities presented in the literatures through historical overview, and to obtain implication for school science. There are various aims of laboratory activities by a number of researchers. Overall synthesizing, there are ffur domains of aims of science teaching through laboratory activities, (a) science knowledge has two sub-domains; scientific content knowledge and procedural knowledge, (b) nature of science, (c) science attitude has two sub-domain; scientific attitude and attitude toward science, and (d) ability of scientific inquiry has two sub-domain; manipulative skills and scientific thinking. But, it is necessary to continue the following study in order to obtain the aims of laboratory activities agreed by expert community, and setting up of lists of aims of laboratory activities for students to achieve hierarchies of school science curriculums.

• 대한화학회지
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• 제66권1호
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• pp.42-49
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• 2022

많은 초등교사들의 과학적 지식 부족은 과학 교수활동에서 여러 가지 문제점으로 나타난다. 따라서 초등교사의 과학적 지식 향상이 필요하지만 교사 양성 과정이나 재교육 과정에서 주로 수행되는 강의 기반 활동을 통해서는 초등교사의 과학적 지식 부족을 해결하는데 한계가 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 초등교사의 과학적 지식 향상을 위한 과학 교사교육 개선 방안을 탐색하고자 한다. 초등학교 과학과 교육과정 내 물질 영역에 대한 내용 지식을 향상시키기 위해 실행연구를 수행한 연구자 3명에 대해 심층면담을 실시했다. 면담결과를 토대로 3명의 연구자들이 실행연구 과정에서 수행한 과학적 실천에서 공통적으로 겪은 어려움과 성장한 부분을 분석했다. 심층면담에서 3명의 교사들은 자신이 특정 개념을 어떻게 이해하고 있는지, 무엇을 이해하지 못하고 있는지, 무엇을 더 공부해야 하는지를 파악하는데 어려움을 겪었다. 그리고 탐구 실천 계획을 수립하는 과정에서 명시적으로 배웠던 절차적 지식을 실제 맥락 속에서 어떻게 적용시켜야 하는지 모르는 상황도 겪었다. 또한 선언적으로 이해하고 있던 지식은 실제 현상에서 관찰되는 내용과 차이가 있어 어려움을 겪기도 했다. 하지만 교사들은 이러한 어려움 속에서 주제 분석, 탐구 계획, 탐구 수행, 결과 논의의 과정을 스스로 실천한 결과 내용 지식뿐만 아니라 의도하지 않았던 절차적 지식에 대한 이해까지 향상되었다고 진술했다. 또한 기존에 이해하고 있던 내용 지식을 통합적으로 이해하는 것도 도움이 되었다고 했다. 그리고 교사들은 과학 실천이 개별적으로 수행되기보다 주변 동료들과 공동체를 구성하여 논의하고 점검하는 기회를 가진다면 더 효과적인 학습이 될 수 있을 것이라는 제안을 했다. 이러한 점에 비추어 초등교사의 과학적 지식 향상을 위한 교사교육의 방향은 교사들이 학습 공동체 속에서 현상이 발생되는 맥락에 대해 직접 탐구하고 그 결과를 바탕으로 과학 개념을 이해하는 형태로 개선될 필요가 있다. 이는 교사의 실천과 이해를 통합시켜 과학 교수 활동 개선에도 기여할 것으로 판단된다.