• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.69-85
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• 2010

The purpose of this study was to develop criteria for evaluating final reports of free inquiry activity and to apply developed evaluation criteria to free inquiry activity reports. 323 inquiry reports submitted to internal contests in the elementary schools as well as 189 award-winning ones from the inquiry competition for students in Seoul were collected. Nine categories and 18 sub-categories of evaluation criteria were derived by collecting reports analysis, literature reviews and interviews with 15 elementary school teachers. Criteria for each sub-category were organized into three steps and 12 elementary school teachers assigned scores for each sub-category, which were averaged. 132 including both award-winning and general reports were evaluated based on the developed evaluation criteria. The content validity and the reliability across scorers were significant. Furthermore, award-winning and general reports were significantly distinguished by the developed criteria in terms of all sub-category scores. The developed evaluation criteria will be an effective tool to asses student's free inquiry activity.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제35권4호
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• pp.573-584
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• 2015

오랜 기간 동안 과학교육 분야에서 탐구는 과학 학습의 핵심적인 목표이자 수단으로 자리매김해왔다. 그러나 교육 실천의 맥락에서 탐구 활동을 온전히 수행하기란 결코 녹록하지 않으며, 탐구의 역할과 기능에 대한 논의는 여전히 분분하다. 따라서 과학교사들이 실제로 탐구를 지도하면서 겪는 어려움을 비판적으로 검토하는 일은 반드시 필요하다. 본 연구에서는 탐구를 지도하는 교사에 초점을 두고, 예비교사의 탐구에 대한 인식과 실천 사이에서 나타나는 갈등의 양상을 질적 사례연구를 통해 살펴보고자 했다. 연구 참여자는 과학교육을 전공하는 8명의 대학생들이다. 이들은 약 1년 동안 주말 과학 프로그램에서 저소득층 중학생들의 보조교사와 멘토로 활동하면서, 방학 기간에는 자유로운 방식으로 담당 학생들의 탐구 활동을 지도하였다. 연구의 사례는 '자유탐구에서 수행하는 예비 과학교사의 탐구지도 활동'으로, 참여자의 개인면담과 집단면담과 참여관찰 기록, 자기보고서 등을 연구 자료의 분석에 사용하였다. 그 결과, 예비교사들은 학습자의 능동성뿐만 아니라 교과 지식과 연역적 절차 역시 탐구 활동을 가능하게 하는 중요한 요인으로 인식하고 있었다. 그러나 예비교사들이 실제로 탐구를 계획하거나 수행할 때, 인식과 실천 사이의 간극으로 인해 딜레마와 마주했다. 딜레마의 양상은 '발산하는 탐구와 수렴하는 과학', '흥미 중심의 탐구와 학습 중심의 탐구', '학습 주체로서의 학생과 부족한 지식인으로서의 학생'의 세 가지로 정리하였다. 끝으로 예비교사들의 딜레마 해소 과정을 논의하면서, 탐구와 과학교사에 대한 대안적인 관점을 제안하였다.

• 영재교육연구
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.1-21
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• 2008

이 연구에서는 과학 영재의 과학 창의성을 신장시키기 위하여 문제 해결형 탐구 실험을 개발 적용하여 그 효과를 분석하고자 하였다. 이를 위해 먼저, 과학 개념, 과학 탐구 기능, 창의적 사고 영역에서 선정된 요소를 융합하여 문제 해결형 탐구 실험을 개발하였고, 과학 창의성을 측정하기 위해 과학 창의적 문제 해결력 검사(TSCPS)를 개발하였다. 과학 창의성을 신장시키기 위해 개발된 문제 해결형 탐구실험을 대학교 부설 영재 센터에 재학 중인 중학생 과학 영재 21명에게 적용하였다. TSCPS를 사전 사후에 실시하여 결과를 비교하였고, 실험 과정 중에 나타나는 학생 간 대화를 분석하였다. 문제 해결형 탐구 실험의 적용 후 TSCPS 사후 검사결과가 향상되었다. 실험 과정에서 나타난 학생 간 대화를 분석한 결과, 문제 해결을 위해 논리적인 설명과 사고를 많이 요구하는 실험에서는 수렴적 사고에 관한 대화 수가, 문제 해결을 위한 아이디어의 제시가 강조되는 실험에서는 발산적 사고에 관한 대화 수가 많이 나타났다. 이로써 문제 해결형 탐구 실험이 과학 창의성 신장에 긍정적인 영향을 줄 것이라 생각된다. 과학의 영역 특수성을 반영한 창의적 문제 해결형 탐구 실험은 영재 교육을 현장에서 수행하는 데 실질적인 도움이 될 것이라 기대한다.

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제32권8호
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• pp.1367-1377
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• 2012

Inquiry activity is a major source of student investigation which both of the national curriculum standards strongly emphasize for achieving scientific literacy. The purpose of this study was to examine inquiry activities incorporated in high school biology textbooks used in China and Korea. The inquiry activities were examined with regard to inquiry level and science process skills. Bell's and a modification of Padilla's framework were used in these analyses. Results show that the Korean textbooks were more exclusively occupied by simple inquiry activities - None of them provided activity more complex than level 2 inquiry. In addition, the Korean textbooks had uniformly basic science process skills, whereas their Chinese counterparts gave students some challenges for higher level process skills. Therefore, it cannot be guaranteed that the activities in the Korean textbooks are helpful in guiding students toward a gradual progression to high-level inquiry. Implications for inquiry-based science education were suggested based on the results of the study.

• 대한지구과학교육학회지
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.116-125
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• 2011

The purpose of this study is to make a Result analysis on the Free Inquiry Method of Elementary school student. Also, this study investigates how free inquiry activities effect the science creative problem solving ability and science process skills of Elementary school student. For this study 150, third year, elementary School students from Busan City were selected. The Inquiry examined the effectiveness of each of the following free inquiry methods: the Program Based Learning method, the Project method, the Independent Investigation Method, the Small Group Inquiry Method, and the Science Notebooks Method. The students were divided into groups in which they incorporated the respective methods into their practice. Test showed the following results: First, the Science Notebooks Method activities proved to be much more effective than the Program Based Learning method, the Project method, the Independent Investigation Method, the Small Group Inquiry Method, and the Science Notebooks Method in terms of developing on science creative problem solving ability. Second, the Project method activities proved to be much more effective than the Program Based Learning method, the Independent Investigation Method, the Small Group Inquiry Method, the Science Notebooks Method in terms of developing on science process skills.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제35권3호
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• pp.348-361
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• 2016

This study was done by narrative inquiry, suggested by Clandinin and Conelly (2000), in order to gain an in-depth understanding of the loneliness experienced by a scientifically gifted elementary school student. The participant of this study was sixth grade student from the Institute for Science Gifted in C University. The data were gathered via in-depth interviews and observations on the participant and her teachers. Based on these research findings, this study can make the following four conclusions with regard to the loneliness experienced by a gifted elementary school student in science. First, some characteristics of the gifted child may make her feel loneliness in the relationships she has with peers, siblings, and parents. Second, parent's repression makes the gifted child feels lonely. Third, the gifted child who feels lonely get consolation from her own subjective world and wants to get recognition from others. Fourth, the educational institute for the gifted serves as a place of education that fosters the gifted child's cognitive development and simultaneously it is where she can form positive relationships with her peers, as well as being a place of emotional comfort.

• 대한화학회지
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• 제58권6호
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• pp.658-666
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• 2014

이 연구의 목적은 예비과학교사의 논의 중심 과학 탐구에 대한 이해와 인식을 알아보는 것이다. 대도시 소재 사범대학 과학교육과에서 예비과학교사 17명을 대상으로 화학교과교재 및 연구법 수강이전과 이후에 실시한 서술형 설문과 사후개별 면담 자료를 연속적 비교분석법으로 분석하였다. 사후 설문 및 면담에서 과학 탐구의 중요한 요소로서 논의를 언급하고, 탐구 문제에 대한 주장과 근거를 협상하는 과정으로서 논의의 역할을 이해하는 예비과학교사의 수가 사전보다 늘어났다. 예비과학교사들은 논의가 강조된 탐구 중심 과학 수업의 중요성을 인식함에도 불구하고 여러 가지 어려움과 문제점에 대한 우려를 하고 있었다. 사전에는 학생들의 소극적인 논의 참여를 어려움으로 인식하는 반면, 사후에는 예비교사 자신의 수업지도안 계획 또는 학생들의 논의를 안내하는 어려움에 대하여 언급하는 경우가 많았다.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제35권2호
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• pp.265-276
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• 2016

In this study, modeling pedagogies were employed to re-design and teach the unit of Seasonal Changes in the $6^{th}$ grade science curriculum. The effects of the modeling-based program were investigated in both the conceptual and affective domains using an approach of mixing quantitative and qualitative techniques. The result showed that the students in the modeling-based science inquiry classroom gained a higher mean score in a conceptual achievement test than their counterparts in a traditional science classroom. The number of the conceptual resources activated to explain the causes of the seasons, as well as the types of student explanations developed through the combination of the resources activated, were greater in the modeling-based classroom. The modeling-based science inquiry was also effective in improving student attitudes toward science lessons. It was revealed, however, that the students experienced both positive and negative epistemic feelings during the modeling-based science inquiry. Implications of these findings for science education and relevant research were suggested and discussed.

• 한국수학교육학회지시리즈D:수학교육연구
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.249-262
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• 2010

Large Midwest university faculty members proposed the Science and Technology Enhancement Program Project (STEP) to improve students' learning in the secondary mathematics classroom using modules of inquiry-based teaching. The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of the STEP Project on students' attitude toward mathematics. Hierarchical linear models (HLM) were used to evaluate the impact of the STEP Project. The sample group for the study was 130 ninth grade students enrolled in Integrated Algebra I in a large urban school district. The school was one of eight secondary schools that participated in the STEP Project. The classes in the treatment group were three of five classes ordered in terms of the highest, middle, and lowest mean GPA. The control group consisted of two other middle GPA classes. The classes had an average of 25 students. Teachers who previously had been involved in the STEP Project taught all treatment and control classes. The inquiry-based teaching activities provided by the project were confined to the treatment classes. The survey measuring students' attitudes toward mathematics were obtained for both groups of students. The inquiry-based teaching affected students' attitudes toward mathematics (p < 0.07, ES = 3.07). Especially, students who had preexisting low attitudes toward mathematics were significantly affected by treatment (p < 0.02, ES = 0.02), while the treatment positively affected African American students overall at p < 0.08 (ES = 0.58).

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.11-22
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• 1998

The present educational and social circumstances require the improvement of science education and the promotion of scientific technology simultaneously Under this situation, it is necessary to develop the performance assessment evaluating the ability of scientific inquiry. The purpose of this study is to develop a valid and reliable instrument of the performance assessment that is can evaluate the scientific inquiring ability. The characteristics of the instrument developed through this study, are as follows, 1. The performance assessment can be impartially achieved for all the elements of scientific inquiry, which are required in the units of elementary science from 3rd to 6th grade of elementary school. 2. To maintain the objectivity of performance assessment, the detailed standpoints and standards are established. 3. The instruments are devised to evaluate the thinking skills with the experimental reports of student, the operation skills by the check list of evaluation that the teacher's observation for the student are recorded. 4. Considering the level of elementary school student, the items required the complex thinking and the investigative skills are exclude as much as possible. 5. The items are arranged according to the learning steps of elementary school, so that the evaluation may be achieved in parallel with the process of the real teaching -learning in class. 6. According to circumstances, make use of these materials for the evaluation as the practical teaching-learning materials instead of the normal teaching-learning materials The first field trial with the instrument was carried out, using a sample of 20 students from the 3rd to 6th at K and Y elementary school located in Kwangju city. The results of mean achievement quotient for each grade are as follows, the first term of 3rd grade (experiment and exercise skills ; 85%, inquiry thinking skills ; 74%), the second term of 3rd grade (experiment and exercise skills : 81%, inquiry thinking skills ; 76%), the first term of 4th grade (experiment and exercise skills ; 70%, inquiry thinking skills ; 59%), the second term of 4th grade (experiment and exercise skills ; 61%, inquiry thinking skills ; 71%), the first term of 5th grade (experiment and exercise skills ; 84%, inquiry thinking skills ; 67%), the second term of 5th grade (experiment and exercise skills; 73%, inquiry thinking skills ; 70%), the first term of 6th grade (experiment and exercise skills : 83%, inquiry thinking skills ; 84%), the second term of 6th grade (experiment and exercise skills ; 87%, inquiry thinking skills ; 81%).