• 아동학회지
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.1-13
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• 2009

This study examined the extent to which young children's scientific inquiry capabilities and curiosity are affected by their mothers' awareness about science education and their mutual interaction. Instruments were Levels of Mothers' Awareness about Science Education and Interaction with Children (Jeon, 2006), Children's Scientific Thinking Capabilities (Lee, 2000), and Children's Curiosity (Lee, 2001). Differences between high-and low-ranked groups were analyzed by t-tests. Results showed that children whose mothers displayed high levels of awareness about science education and mutual interaction showed better scientific inquiry capabilities and curiosity than children whose mothers did not display such high levels. By confirming the significant role of mothers in their children's science education these results can be an aid to parent education.

• 아동학회지
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• 제27권4호
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• pp.1-16
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• 2006

This study investigated the effectiveness of the Developmentally Appropriate Instruction Model for Science(DAIM-S) on increasing scientific curiosity and problem solving in young children. Subjects were 60 5-year-old middle class children, randomly assigned to one of two groups: either the DAIM-S group or the direct instruction group. For 2 months, the children in both groups took part in 21 science activity sessions. Both before and after treatment, subjects were tested on curiosity and scientific problem solving. The DAIM-S group showed higher achievement than the direct instruction group in the acquisition of curiosity and scientific problem solving. From these results, the researchers suggest application of the DIAM-S to the science teaching of young children.

• 수산해양교육연구
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• 제26권5호
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• pp.1119-1128
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• 2014

This study was aimed at analyzing the correlation among each factor after finding out the difference between the gifted elementary students of science and general students with their parents' learning involvement, the children's intellectual curiosity and scientific creativity. The results of the study were as in the followings. Firstly, there was a significant difference in the intellectual curiosity between the gifted students and general students. Secondly, there was a significant difference in the parents' learning involvement perceived by the gifted students and general students. Thirdly, there was a significant difference in scientific curiosity of the gifted students and the general students. Forth, as the results of the correlation analysis among the talented child's father's learning involvement, the child's intellectual curiosity and scientific creativity, there was a positive correlation between the father's pursuit for appropriateness and the talented child's special curiosity, and another positive correlation between the father's encouragement for academic improvement and the child's flexibility and originality.

• 인간식물환경학회지
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.515-524
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• 2019

This study was conducted based on the fact that children in institutions for early childhood education located in cities lack the opportunity to experience nature. Therefore, urban parks are where it is possible to observe nature and natural environment, through which we examined the effects of nature activities on kindergarten children's curiosity and scientific problem-solving ability. The subjects of this study were 5-years old kindergarten children in attending public kindergartens in Cheonan and Asan and 42 children were randomly selected. The pretest and posttest were conducted on curiosity and scientific problem-solving ability before and after nature activities. The results showed that nature activities in urban parks had significant effects on improvement of kindergarten children's curiosity and scientific problem-solving ability (p <.05). Therefore, nature activities in urban parks had positive effects on preference for unknown and exploratory behavior, which are sub-factors of kindergarten children's curiosity. Nature activities also had positive effects on discovery and statement of the problem, creation and application of ideas, and conclusion to problem solving.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.1-13
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• 2000

For a profound understanding about the elementary students' scientific attitude, I have performed this study based on the students' opinion by the ethnographic interview and participant observation of science classes. I have analyzed the data by qualitative data analyzing method, and compared the analyzed results with analyzed results by the Likert's scaled as il questionnaire method. To perform this study, I selected one elementary school located in an agricultural village in Choong-Buk Province in Korea and studied four 5th grade students. Here, I present results of this study as follows. First, in ethnographic interview, all informants represented positive reaction to scientific curiosity. But, It is appeared that there are external curiosity and internal curiosity. Internal curiosity is more closely and positively related to problem solving skills. Second, all informants represented positive open-mindness expressing their own opinions actively and accepting other students' opinions. Students who had positive critical-mindness and voluntariness recorded high scores in science achievement. Third, scientific attitude analyzed by ethnographic methods didn't correspond with scientific attitude measured by Likert's scale in all cases. I presumed this discrepant result could come from subjects' different tendency on replying to questionnaire and students' own criterion.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제40권3호
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• pp.343-365
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• 2021

본 연구는 초등학교 5~6학년을 대상으로 과학 문제 대면 상황에서 학습자 변인이 상태호기심 및 상태불안 유발에 미치는 영향을 밝히는 데 목적이 있다. 상태호기심 및 상태불안 유발에 영향을 줄 것으로 예상되는 학습자 변인으로 과학호기심, 흥미, 인지욕구, 과학자아개념, 과학불안, 사전지식, 학생이 인식한 과제난이도를 선정하였다. 분석 결과, 과학 문제 대면 상황에서 유발되는 상태호기심에 유의한 영향을 미치는 변인은 흥미, 인지욕구, 과학호기심, 사전지식 순으로 나타났으며, 이들 변인은 모두 정적인 영향을 미쳤다. 또한 과학 문제 대면 상황에서 유발되는 상태불안에 유의한 영향을 미치는 변인은 과학 불안, 학생이 인식한 과제난이도, 인지욕구, 과학자아개념, 사전지식 순으로 나타났다. 이중 사전지식만 상태불안 유발에 부적인 영향을 미쳤고 나머지 변인들은 정적인 영향을 미쳤다. 본 연구의 결과는 과학학습에서 학생의 정서적 상태에 대한 이해의 폭을 넓히고, 과학 학습에서 유발되는 상태호기심 및 상태 불안 연구에 대한 이론적 토대를 마련할 것으로 기대된다.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제39권3호
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• pp.433-448
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• 2020

In this study, the tasks of thermal equilibrium and heat insulation concept were divided into scientific and everyday contexts to analyzed the level of familiarity, feeling of knowing, state curiosity, and state anxiety that students feel in task contexts and their relationship. The subjects of this study were One hundred nine students in sixth grade of elementary schools located in metropolitan cities. The results of this study were as follows. First, there was no difference in the level of feeling of knowing, state curiosity, and state anxiety in the task of scientific and everyday contexts. In the case of familiarity, there was no consistent tendency in the concept of thermal equilibrium and heat insulation. And the group who recognized the task context familiarly had higher feeling of knowing and lower state anxiety than the group who recognized the task context unfamiliarly. Second, familiarity and feeling of knowing showed high positive correlation, state anxiety and familiarity showed negative correlation, and state anxiety and feeling of knowing had also negative correlation. In addition, familiarity had a negative effect on state anxiety, and FOK had a positive effect on state curiosity and a negative effect on state anxiety. There was no significant moderating effect of the task context. Third, in case of state curiosity, the group perceived the knowledge gap was very small had the highest state curiosity, and the group perceived the knowledge gap was very large had the lowest state curiosity. In case of state anxiety, the less the knowledge gap was perceived, the lower the anxiety was triggered. This study broadens our understanding of the learning process and provides implications for effective instruction strategies for students' cognitive and emotional states.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2004

The purpose of this study is to analyze elementary school students' personality, scientific attitude and to find the correlation between elementary school students' personality and scientific attitude. To determine this, the distribution of sixth graders' personality and scientific attitude was examined and correlation between the lower categories of each one was analyzed. The test tools and the subject were decided through the two preliminary examination, personality test and scientific attitude test were investigated appling to a total of 354 sixth-grade students at eight elementary schools in this study. The test results were analyzed with averages, standard deviations, correlations, ANOVA using SPSS/PC/sup +/. The major results of analysis are as follows. First, the distribution of scientific attitude proved that the average of boys' curiosity was higher than that of girls' curiosity, but girls' average was higher than boys' average in criticalness property, cooperation property, preparation property, continuation property and patience property. The distribution of upper group and lower group in personality properties revealed that the ratio of upper group was higher than that of lower group in activity property, social property, but the ratio of lower group was higher than that of upper group in responsibility and reflective property. Second, the socio-populational variables affecting 6th graders' personality' and science attitude were a sex, a sibling order. The cognition variables affecting 6th graders' personality and science attitude were preference, extent of usability to practical life and interest of science. Third, analyzing the correlation between lower categories of personality and lower categories of science attitude revealed that activity property of personality rather highly correlated to willingness property, critical property at .399(p<.01), .351(p<.01) respectively. and that consideration property of personality highly correlated to curiosity, critical property at .451 (p<.01), .415(p<.01) respectively.

• 대한지구과학교육학회지
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.51-59
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• 2012

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of Future Problem Solving Program on creativity and scientific attitude. For this study the 4 grade, 2 class was divided into a research group and a comparative group. The class was pre-tested in order to ensure the same standard. The research group had the science class with FPSP, and the comparative group had the class with teacher centered lectures for 9 classes in 10 weeks. The FPSP was focused on finding problems, finding key problems, creating solutions, selecting the standard of judgement, making alternative solutions, and learning creative steps of solutions consisting of development of action planning. To prove the effects of this study, creativity was split up according to fluency, originality, abstractness, accuracy, and openness. Also, scientific attitude consisted of honesty, patience, curiosity, preparedness, autonomy, criticism, and openness. The results of this study are as follows. First, the science class with FPSP with finding problems, finding key problems, and creating solutions had the effect of developing the scientific creativity; fluency, originality, abstractness of the title, accuracy, and openness. Second, the FPSP had the effect of developing the scientific attitude. Students made ideas and solved the problems through divergent thinking and convergent thinking. During the class it had the effect of developing the scientific attitude; honesty, patience, curiosity, preparedness, autonomy, criticism, and openness. As a result, the elementary science class with FPSP had the effects of developing scientific creativity and scientific attitude. It means the science class with FPSP has potential possibilities and value to develop scientific creativity and scientific attitude.

• 대한지구과학교육학회지
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.192-212
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• 2022

이 연구의 목적은 2015 개정 과학과 교육과정에 따라 개발된 3~4학년군 국정 및 검정 지도서 8종의 총론 그리고 각론의 지구와 우주 영역 4개 단원의 단원 목표, 단원 평가, 차시 목표 및 차시 평가에서 다루어진 과학적 태도의 행동 요소 분석을 통해 향후 지도서 개발을 위한 시사점을 도출하는 것으로, 연구 결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다: 첫째, 분석 대상 지도서 8종 중 5종(62.5%)이 총론에서 과학적 태도와 행동 요소에 대해 매우 간략하게 설명하고 있고 이에 대해 비교적 자세하게 설명한 지도서 3종도 이에 대한 지도 및 평가를 위한 실제적인 정보는 미흡한 편이다; 둘째, 지도서 각론 4개 단원의 단원 목표의 경우 지도서 5종(62.5%)은 호기심, 협동심, 객관성, 비판성, 증거의 존중 중 3~4가지 행동 요소를 포함하고 있고 그 나머지 지도서 3종(37.5%)은 행동 요소로 호기심만 포함하고 있거나 태도에 대한 내용 없이 지식과 탐구만을 포함하고 있거나 단원 목표 항목 자체가 없다; 셋째, 분석 대상 지도서 8종 중 1종(12.5%)만이 단원 평가에 해당하는 독자적인 항목을 포함하고 있고, 그 내용으로 과학적 태도의 행동 요소도 포함하고 있는데, 이 행동 요소는 단원 목표에서의 과학적 태도의 행동 요소와도 대체로 일치하는 편이다; 넷째, 차시 목표의 경우, 지도서 3종(37.5%)에는 호기심, 협동심, 객관성 및 비판성 중 3~4개의 행동 요소가 반영되어 있고 나머지 5종(62.5%)에는 호기심만 포함되어 있다; 다섯째, 차시 평가의 경우, 지도서 8종 중 5종(62.5%)에서 3~4가지 과학적 태도의 행동 요소가 평가되고 있고, 2종(25.0%)에는 호기심과 협동심 두 가지 행동 요소만 평가되고 있으며, 1종(12.5%)에는 전혀 평가되고 있지 않다.