• Educational Technology International
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.19-46
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• 2011

The purpose of the study was to identify the characteristics of classroom inquiry features exhibited on a web-based discussion board, which is called the Message Board. Approximately 4,000 students from 80 schools with 60 on-line scientists were participated in the study. During the study, a total of 639 messages in the selected cluster and several patterns were identified and analyzed. Three main features of the classroom inquiry were analyzed in terms of: 1) learner gives priority to evidence in responding to questions; 2) learner formulates explanations from evidence; 3) learner communicates and justifies explanations. The results are as follow. First, once learners identified and understood the questions posed by the curriculum, they needed to collect evidence or information in responding to the questions. Depending on the question that students were given, types of evidence/data students needed to collect and how to collect the data could vary. Second, students' formulated descriptions, explanations, and predictions after summarizing evidence were observed on the Message Board. However, the extent to which students summarized evidence for descriptions, explanations, and predictions varied. In addition, students were able to make a better use of evidence over time when they formulate descriptions and explanations. Third, the Message Board was designed to allow the great amount of learner self-direction. Classroom teachers and on-line scientists played an important role in providing guidance in developing inquiry. At the same time, development of content understanding also contributed to inquiry development.

• 과학기술학연구
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.27-71
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• 2010

과학적 창의성은 새롭고 중요한 과학적 사실, 방법, 이론, 설명, 측정기구와 이를 낳는 활동이다. 지금까지 창의성에 관한 연구가 많이 이루어졌지만, 대학의 실험실에서 팀단위의 협동 연구에서 발현되는 과학적 창의성에 대한 이해는 부족하다. 본 논문은 우리나라에서 대표적으로 창의적인 실험실로 간주되는 서울대학교 RNA 유전체학 연구실에 대한 미시적, 경험적 참여관찰과 이론적 분석을 통해 실험실의 창의성을 구성하는 요소를 찾아내는 것을 목표로 한다. 창의적인 업적은 순간적인 영감에 의해서 이루어지는 것이 아니라 복잡하고 지속적인 진화의 과정을 필요로 하며, 이 과정에서 다양한 지식과 능력을 지닌 연구자들에게 맞는 분업과 협동 체계가 중요하게 요구된다. 또한 이러한 구조를 활성화 하는 실험실 문화와 실험실 책임자의 리더십이 중요하게 작용함을 관찰할 수 있었다.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.201-208
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• 2007

The purpose of this study was to analyze the structure and type of prospective elementary school teachers' scientific hypotheses generated on zoological tasks. The subjects were 18 prospective elementary school teachers. Four zoological hypothesis generation tasks were developed and administered to the subjects. After being presented with the zoological situations of the tasks, the subjects were asked to generate causal questions and scientific hypotheses. The scientific hypotheses were analyzed by the inductive approach. The results of this study showed that the hypotheses contained explicans and explicanda. The explicans were divided into two parts: 'what' and 'how'. In some cases, additional explanations were attached to the 'what' section. In addition, the hypotheses were classified into 9 types. The number of explicanda, the pattern of explicans, and the number of explicans were used as criteria for classification purposes. This study also discussed the implications of these findings for future directions in teaching and teaming in science education.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제43권6호
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• pp.509-520
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• 2023

과학적 설명은 과학자의 과학적 실행에서 추구하는 주요한 목표이며 과학교육 과정 문서에서도 학생의 과학적 설명 구성 능력을 주요한 목표로 포함하고 있다. 따라서 그 의미를 명료화하는 것은 과학교육 공동체에서 중요한 문제이다. 이 논문에서는 주제 범위 문헌 고찰 방법을 사용하여 '과학적 설명'에 대한 3가지 관점을 추출하고 각각에 대해 고찰하였다(연역-법칙적 설명 모델, 확률론적 설명 모델, 실용적 설명 모델). 그리고 문헌 고찰 내용을 바탕으로 과학적 설명이 과학교육에서 사용하는 다른 개념들, 즉 '기술', '예상', '추론', '가설', '논증'과 어떤 점에서 유사하고 어떤 점에서 구분되는지 논의하면서 이러한 용어들의 의미를 구분하여 사용하는 것이 과학교육 연구와 실행에서 중요하다는 점을 주장하였다. 또 산물로서의 '과학적 설명'과 의사소통으로서 '과학적으로 설명하기'가 차이가 있음을 지적하고, 과학 교육과정의 성취기준 진술 방안, 학생의 과학적 설명 구성을 돕는 방안, 학생의 과학적 설명하기를 돕는 방안을 몇 가지 제안하였다. 예를 들어, 세 가지 과학적 설명 모델에 따라 각각 중요하게 고려해야 할 요인들을 구분하여 정리하고, 그러한 요인을 고려한 과학적 설명을 위한 과학 학습활동 사례를 제시하였다. 본 연구에서의 논의가 과학적 설명과 관련된 과학 학습에서 좀 더 분명하게 학습 목표를 설명하고 그에 따라 보다 적절한 학습활동을 설계하는 데 도움이 되기를 기대한다.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제33권2호
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• pp.242-257
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• 2014

Researchers have employed a diversity of definitions and measurement methods for creativity. As a result, creativity research is underrepresented in the literature and the findings of different studies often prove difficult to draw into a coherent body of understanding. With regard to assessment, there are some important problems both in creativity research and practice, such as originality bias and Big-C creativity bias in teachers' perceptions about creativity and creative thinking, and additive rather than multiplicative scoring systems of creativity assessment. Drawing upon most widely accepted conceptions of the creativity construct, I defined 'student's scientific creativity' as the ability to make a product both original and useful to the student in terms of little-c creativity, and 'scientist's scientific creativity' as the ability to come up with a product both original and useful to the science community in terms of Big-C creativity. In this study, an 'Assessment Formula for Scientific Creativity' was developed, which is consisted of the multiplication of originality and usefulness scores rather than the sum of the two scores, and then, with scores calculated from the assessment formula, the scientific explanations generated by children were categorized into four types: routine, useful, original, and creative types. The assessment formula was revealed to be both valid and reliable. The implications of the assessment formula for scientific creativity are examined. The new assessment formula may contribute to the comprehensive understanding of scientific creativity to guide future research and the appropriate interpretation of previous studies.

• Korean Journal of Acupuncture
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• 제26권3호
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• pp.87-101
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• 2009

Objectives : LI5 and SP6 have been used with a limit in ovary-related disease. But there is few study about the history, the reason, and the mechanism. So, this study was performed to review the literatures related with Eumyangyichonghyul and find the clinical usefulness of that. Methods : 1. The authors reviewed several literatures related with the Eumyangyichonghyul and some scientific studies. 2. We investigated the history and meaning of that, and the relation between the results of scientific studies and the function of that. 3. We found the usefulness based on ancient literatures and scientific studies. Results and Conclusions : 1. Eumyangyichonghyul has been prohibition of acupuncture since had been written on "Dong In Su Hyul Chim Gu Do Gyung". 2. Eumyangyichonghyul could suppress the fetus like as it promotes the delivery. 3. The explanations of ancient literatures and the scientific studies are very similar in viewpoint of whole body mechanism.

• 동굴
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• 제87호
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• pp.23-33
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• 2008

동굴 관광자원은 동굴을 방문하는 관광객의 성격 등이 매우 다양한 구성원으로 되어 있으며, 동굴내부의 지형지물에 대한 명칭이나 설명문을 포함한 안내문은 동굴을 찾는 관광객에게 중요한 정보를 전달하는 매체로서의 역할을 하고 있다. 그러나 실제로 동굴지형지물에 대한 명칭 및 안내문에는 많은 오류를 비롯하여 관람객에게 혼동을 주거나 올바르지 않은 정보를 제공하는 결과를 초래하고 있다. 이러한 정보전달의 매체로서의 중요성을 인식하고 그 문제점을 파악하였다. 문제점은 다음과 같다. 1) 대부분 동굴 지형의 학술적 명칭보다는 지형지물의 형태에 따른 추상적인 명칭이 부여되고 있다. 2) 대부분의 지형지물에 대한 명칭만이 부여되어 학술적 설명문이 미약하여 정보 매체로서의 역할이 부족하다. 3) 설명문의 경우, 잘못된 표현이나 오류가 보이며, 학술적으로 논란이 있는 부분을 객관적이지 못한 설명이 되어있다.

• 한국지구과학회지
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.132-139
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• 2002

One of the prime objectives of school science is to help the children learn science concepts and conceptual schemes that will help them understand and interpret their environment. One of the basic scientific concepts is 'Change -everything existing in universe is changing always'. The purpose of this study was to investigate the characteristics of elementary and secondary students' conception of change. The subjects for this study were 489 students in Korea; 111 fourth graders, 95 sixth graders, 140 seventh graders and 143 ninth graders. Four items - mountain, river, ground, sea -were used for investigating students conception of change because representing the nature world in elementary and secondary level. The subjects were asked to check whether each item was changing and to explain each their check. Students' explanations were classified by whether they were sound understanding geologically, or not. The rate of responses that each item was changing was compared by grades and the rate of geological explanations was also compared by grades. Because students' conceptions of change might were effected by time scale, the additional questions that asked students whether the present status of four items were equivalent to the that of several points of time. As a result, the rate of scientific answers and patterns of explanations were similar by grade and the rate of geological understandings was relatively low. The frequencies of concept of change were more dropped as the point of time was closer to present.

• 한국지구과학회지
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• 제33권5호
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• pp.459-466
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• 2012

This study aimed to investigate the characteristics of pre-service elementary teachers' understanding about scientific inquiry in terms of designing exploration and reasoning that is used to formulate explanations based on evidence. The research context was an open inquiry with using the Science Writing Heuristic (SWH) template in which participant students were not provided with inquiry questions. As data, lab. 39 pre-service elementary teachers participated in this study while taking their science methods course. Analyses of the reports were framed by the cognitive processes of inquiry (Chinn and Malhotra, 2002) and each report was coded and analyzed by the framework of inquiry (Tytler and Peterson, 2004). Results showed that groups' works that utilized the SWH template encouraged the participants to interact each other about scientific inquiry. They came up with more relevant and testable questions for their scientific inquiry. It implicates that children will be able to have chances of testing their own questions more properly by using the SWH template in science classes just as the participants did in this study. The use of the SWH template would help pre-service teachers to teach appropriately how to test inquiry questions to their students in the future. Discussion was made to figure out the characteristics or Korean pre-service elementary teachers' understanding about scientific inquiry.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제34권4호
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• pp.375-383
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• 2014

이 연구는 대중매체에서 보고되는 과학 관련 정보에 관한 중학생들의 평가 양상을 가설-연역적 추론의 측면에서 분석하여 과학적 소양 함양을 위한 과학 교육에 시사점을 얻고자 하였다. 중학생 66명을 대상으로 정보평가 능력 검사지를 사용한 지필 검사와 개인 면담을 통해 자료를 수집하였다. 정보평가능력 검사지는 6개의 주제에 관해 각 주제별 질문을 가설-연역적 추론 과정에 따라 제시하였다. 가설-연역적 추론 과정에 따라 정보에서 설명하는 내용이 예측하는 것을 확인하고, 실측한 자료를 식별하여, 정보에서 설명하는 내용의 타당성을 판단하는 각 단계에 나타난 학생들의 응답 유형과 가설-연역적 추론 과정에 따라 정보를 평가하는지 여부 및 정보의 타당성 판단에 사용하는 근거에 대한 신념을 조사 분석하였다. 연구결과 정보평가 과정에서 중학생들은 주어진 정보와 개인의 사전 경험 및 지식의 조합에 따른 여러가지 유형을 보였고, 가설-연역적 추론 과정에 따라 정보를 평가한 사례는 적게 나타났다. 가설-연역적 추론을 한 학생의 경우 정보 판단에서 과학적 증거를 우선하는 경향을 보인 반면 가설-연역적 추론을 하지 않은 학생은 개인적 경험을 우선하는 경향을 보였다. 연구 결과는 과학적 소양을 위한 과학 수업 및 교육과정에 시사점을 제공하며 추후 연구에서 자료의 타당성에 관한 판단을 포함한 학생들의 평가 능력 측정 및 가설-연역적 추론 외 다른 형태의 추론 능력 역시 측정할 필요성을 제시한다.