• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제27권8호
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• pp.711-723
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• 2007

As the discourse of scientific literacy has broadly summed up the goals of science education in the current decade, this study attempts to question how we contextualize appropriate interpretations and feasible approaches to scientific literacy in K-6 science education. With respect to the complex praxis of scientific knowledge and practice, this study emphasizes the participatory framework of scientific literacy which interweaves children's everyday experiences and science learning. This study also concerns children's abilities to understand and enact scientific enterprises (i.e., children's fundamental sense of scientific literacy). As a way of developing K-6 scientific literacy, this study investigates how using science books can broaden the scope of children's understandings of science in life connections and promote a fundamental sense of scientific literacy through talking, reading, and writing skills in Grade two science classrooms in Canada. Second graders were engaged in learning "sound" for five weeks. During science lessons, children's talks were recorded and their writings were collected for data interpretation. This research finds that using science books can encourage children to become engaged in communicative activities such as talking, reading, and writing in science; furthermore, using science books develops children's inquiry skills. These findings open a further discussion on scientific literacy at the K-6 levels.

• Asian Journal of Innovation and Policy
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.258-276
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• 2022

The historical aspects, policies, institutions, awards and measurement results of scientific literacy and scientific culture development in Indonesia have currently attracted further exploration. This paper utilizes secondary data research, further analyzed by employing the Supplementary Analysis technique. The results revealed that the tradition of writing and publishing scientific journals in Indonesia has existed ever since the Dutch East Indies with the journal's publication entitled 'Natuurkundig tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië' in 1850. To date, Indonesia has owned 5,990 nationally accredited journals. Policy support has been provided at the national and regional levels, despite limitations in cultivating literacy and reading habit. From the institutional perspective, Indonesia provides a wide array of public support, including the effort of the Ministry of Education and Culture for advocating the national literacy movement and the availability of a reference database and scientific access established by the National Library; the Indonesian Institute of Sciences, and the Ministry of Research and Technology. Similarly, in the award-related perspective, the Indonesia government has granted awards to individuals or groups and local governments engaging in the cultivation of scientific literacy and scientific culture. However, among the global measurements for literacy development in Indonesia (in 2020) recorded that three indicators scored less than those in 2019.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제34권2호
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• pp.55-62
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• 2014

본 연구는 1960년대 이후 과학적 소양을 정의하고 분류를 시도했던 연구자들의 분류 결과를 3가지 분류 기준에 의하여 재분류하고, 과학적 소양의 정의 분류의 경향을 파악하는데 목적이 있다. 과학적 소양이 과학교육의 주요 목표를 대변하는 개념이므로 그 정의에 따른 분류는 과학교육의 목적에 대한 동향을 검토할 수 있는 주요자료가 될 수 있다. 분류 기준은 1) "literate"의 의미로서 '학습됨', '능력 있음', '사회에서 최소 기능을 할 수 있음', 2) 과학적 소양을 표현하는 방식으로서 용어와 서술, 3) 과학적 소양의 내부 구조로서 '단일 구조', '직렬식 위계구조', '병렬식 수평구조'이다. 분류 결과와 해석은 다음과 같다. 첫째, 과학적 소양의 구조로서 위계 구조는 90년대 후반부터 표현방식으로서 용어를 사용하는 정의와 함께 나타나고 있으며, 학습과 능력사이에서만 위계를 인정하고 사회적 기능으로서의 과학적 소양의 의미는 수용하지 않고 있다. 수평구조는 과학적 소양의 하위 요소 간의 위계 구조를 보이지 않는 대신 사회적 기능으로서 과학적 소양의 의미를 전반적으로 수용하고 있다. 또, 단일 구조는 대부분 과학적 소양을 새로운 시각에서 제안하는 연구에서 나타나고 있으며, 소양의 의미도 최근으로 오면서 학습에서 능력을 거쳐 사회적 기능을 강조하는 특성이 있다. 둘째, 근래로 오면서 과학적 소양을 용어 형식으로 정의하려는 연구가 증가하고, 이들 사이에도 위계를 설정하는 분류가 주도하고 있다. 또한 소양의 세 가지 의미인 학습, 능력, 사회적 기능을 전반적으로 수용하는 분류가 빈번해졌으나, 이들 간에는 위계 구조보다는 오히려 수평 구조를 설정하는 경향이 있다. 위와 같은 분석 결과를 토대로 살펴 볼 때, 과학 교육의 목표로서 과학적 소양의 의미는 학습이나 과제 해결 능력뿐만 아니라, 근래에는 사회적 맥락에서 어떤 역할을 하는 개인을 육성하려는 목표로서 인정되고 있다는 점이다. 또한 주목할 것은 과학적 소양의 이러한 사회적 기능 측면은 위계적이 아닌 독립적인 목표로서의 특성을 견지하고 있다는 점이다. 이러한 변화에 능동적으로 대처하기 위해서는 과학교육이 교과 내 개념학습에서 벗어나 다양한 맥락에서의 적용과 사회적 역할을 중시하는 목표로 전환할 준비를 해야 할 것으로 보인다.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.9-17
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• 2007

This study sets out to assess the scientific literacy of secondary school students and to describe their differences according to gender, grade, course. This study involved 112 middle school students and 213 high school students. Their scientific literacy was measured by the Scientific Literacy Test designed by Manhart (1997). A 70-item multiple-choice test was used to assess their scientific literacy. The constructs of science factor included 36 items making up physical science, life science, and earth science subtests. The social aspects of science factor consisted of 34 items in nature of scientific inquiry/knowledge, science as a human endeavor, science and technology, and societal perspectives. A two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and t-test were conducted using the SPSS program. The scientific literacy score of the middle school students was 45.17. There was no significant difference according to gender but boys tended to perform better than girls on both the constructs of science factor and the social aspects of science factor. The scientific literacy score of the high school students was 51.79. There was no significant difference according to gender. But, boys tended to perform better than girls on the constructs of science factor. Girls tended to perform better than boys on the social aspects of science factor. The students taking a course on natural science got statistically higher scores than the students taking a course on humanities. The high school students got statistically higher scores than the middle school students.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제21권5호
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• pp.893-905
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• 2001

Korean students ranked the 3rd out of 32 participating countries in the first cycle of PISA(Programme for International Student Assessment) science field, which assessed 15-years-old students' scientific literacy. PISA developed several variables such as parents' socio-economic status, parents' educational attainment, family wealth, and cultural possession, to investigate the effects of background variables on scientific literacy. On the other hand, motivation and engagement in science study were not given much attention, partly because science was the minor area in the first cycle of PISA. Therefore, PISA Korea developed a series of variables to collect data on students' learning motives and out-of-school activities in science as a national option. The results are as followings. First, Korea was found to be one of the PISA participating countries with the scientific literacy achievement least influenced by parents' socio-economic status, family wealth, and parents' cultural possession. Second, the degree of achievement in scientific literacy according to parents' educational attainment was in a positive correlation, similar to the overall tendency of PISA. Third, the most crucial learning motive for Korean students was their desire to develop scientific thinking abilities or obtain science knowledge. On the other hand, choosing jobs in the field of science or parental expectation was the least important learning motive. In particular, the motive for scientific learning was found to have a positive relationship with the degree of scientific literacy achievement. Therefore, the higher the students achievement, the stronger the motive for scientific learning in order to develop their ability to think scientifically or acquire science knowledge. Fourth, Korean students were shown to participate very little in out-of-school scientific activities other than watching TV programs related to science. Whatever the activities may be, the more actively involved students are in out-of-school scientific activities, the higher their scientific literacy achievement. Fifth, Korean girls were rather passive compared to boys in all areas, including science learning motive and out-of-school scientific activities. The gender difference was especially more pronounced in out-of-school scientific activities with wider gaps in such activities as reading scientific books or articles and visiting science-related web sites.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제34권3호
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• pp.338-345
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• 2015

The purpose of this study is to analyze science fields and content elements of the science reports in a web portal site of Republic of Korea in view of scientific literacy. The main results of the analysis on the 679 reports sampled in a year are as follows. First, 506 reports in 46 fields were identified. Reports about technology and earth science occupies 16% respectively, and life science occupies 13%, medical science 4%, chemistry, company, others 3% and physics 1%. Almost reports show technology as associate field. Second, the frequency rate of reports including scientific literacy content elements is 52%. Reports related to 'physics' and 'chemistry' as dominant fields show relatively high rate in scientific literacy elements. The element, 'social context' is included in about 96% of the reports. Both 'data and statistics' and 'application' show relatively low rate and large gaps according to dominant fields. A few concluding remarks and proposals follow from these results. First, as almost science reports show the nature of integrated science, scientific literacy acquisition through science reports in internet requires the integrated scientific view. Especially most science reports includes the contents related to technology or medical science, so the point of view in the science-technological literacy is required. Second, the scientific literacy content elements in reports show various rates according to dominant fields. Therefore, science reports need to complement the deficient content elements to carry out the role of science reports as scientific literacy sources.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제36권3호
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• pp.208-218
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• 2017

This study was to investigate factors and disclose causal model of the scientific literacy competency about the motivation for science and the scientific literacy competency. The 3 grade university students and the 1 grade university students as pre-service elementary teachers were participated to questionnaire investigation. The data were analyzed by the factor analysis method and the structural equation model method, and the following results were obtained. First, the 3 grade university students and the 1 grade university students perceived the science interest factors and science usefulness factors as the motivation for science, and also revealed the scientific problem recognition factor and the scientific evidence use factor as the scientific literacy competency. Second, the science interest factor had a greater effect on the scientific problem recognition factor than the scientific evidence use factor in both the 3 grade and 1 grade university students. In the path from the science usefulness factor to the scientific problem recognition factor, the science usefulness factor of the 3 grade university students had a greater influence on the direct route to the scientific problem recognition factor than that of the 1 grade university students. In the path from the science usefulness factor to the scientific evidence use factor, the science usefulness factor of the 1 grade university students influenced more on the direct route to the scientific evidence use factor than that of the 3 grade university students.

• 대한지구과학교육학회지
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.1-12
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• 2013

20 preservice teachers at college level participated in this study and interacted with students at elementary and middle school levels during science camp offered by science center in Taiwan. Preservice teachers displayed moderate (above the average, 4 point out of 5) understandings about scientific literacy and scientific views in all aspects of the nature of science before the camp. Then, the researchers designed science camp programs which were expected to promote students' scientific literacy; scientific knowledge, inquiry skills for experimentation as well as for argumentation, affective domain such as the attitude toward science and the understandings about nature of science and the relationship among STS (Science-Technology-Society), all of which were embedded in the programs. Preservice teachers seemed to perceive scientific literacy pretty well (over 4 point) before the camp, however, preservice teachers' understandings about scientific literacy were not much scored (around 3 point, but still moderate scores of average) as expected after concrete inquiry activities. The reasons why this happened could be that preservice teachers were not trained to employ theory into the context to be more practical or the researchers did not develop camp program which included the aspect of scientific literacy successfully. The discussion and implication were made in teacher education in that preservice teachers must be prepared how to bridge theory into practice, and informal science education in that educators at science centers must be trained to be experts in providing the envisioned educational programs to meet the goal of science education, scientific literacy.

• 컴퓨터교육학회논문지
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• 제7권5호
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• pp.57-70
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• 2004

본 연구는 선행 연구에서 도출한 CSILE에서의 협력적 지식구축에 영향을 주는 변인들간의 관련성을 규명하기 위한 후속연구이다. CSILE는 학습자들의 지식구축을 지원하는 환경으로 학습공동체의 탐구과정을 지원하기 위해 활용된다. 본 연구는 CSILE 기반의 초등학교 과학과 탐구학습을 대상으로 선행연구를 통해 밝힌 변인, '지식의 이해', '과학적 소양', '학습 의도'간의 관련성을 살폈고, 각각의 변인이 탐구력을 예측할 수 있는지 분석하였다. 실험 결과, 과학과 탐구에 대한 학술적인 의도가 지식의 이해와 과학적 소양과 관련이 있음을 알 수 있었다. 또한, 탐구력을 예측할 수 있는 변인으로서 과학적 소양의 해석력을 검증하고, CSILE 기반의 탐구학습에서 과학적 소양의 증진을 위해 고려해야 할 사항을 제시하였다.

• 한국도서관정보학회지
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• 제36권3호
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• pp.21-38
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• 2005

본 연구의 목적은 미래 과학지식사회의 주역인 청소년의 과학에 대한 이해와 활용능력을 높이는 과학적 소양의 향상 방안을 제시하는 것이다. 과학적 소양은 현대사회에서 꼭 필요하다는 주장이 많은 지지를 받고 있으며, 이에 따라 국내외에 다양한 프로그램이 개발되고 있다. 특히 미국의 '프로젝트 2061'은 과학적인 프로세스를 통하여 문제 해결력을 키워 평생학습을 유도하려는 것으로 모든 미국인들이 과학, 수학, 기술영역의 소양을 함양하도록 지원하고 있다. 청소년의 과학적 소양 향상을 위해서는 과학에 대한 호기심과 흥미를 유발하는 정보서비스뿐만 아니라 학교 수업과 연계된 콘텐트 개발이 무엇보다 중요하다. 또한 과학적 문제 해결력을 배양하기 위한 단계별 문제해결 프로그램의 개발이 필요하며, 과학정보 소양으로 통합된 교육과 연구가 진행되어야 한다.