Bongwoo Lee

Analyses of Science Education Theories in the Question Items of the Examination for Appointing Secondary School Science Teachers

본 연구의 목적은 중등과학교사신규임용후보자선정경쟁시험(이하 중등과학교사임용시험)의 문항들에서 어떤 과학교육학 이론이 제시되었는지를 분석하는 것이다. 이를 위해 최근 5년간 시행된 중등과학교사 임용시험의 과학교육학 관련 문항들은 과학과 교육과정, 과학사 및 과학철학, 과학 탐구, 과학 교수학습이론, 과학 교수학습모형, 고학 평가 등의 6가지 영역으로 분석하였다. 그 겨로가, 과학 교수학습이론이 다른 영역에 비해 가장 많이 출제되었고, 각 영역 내에서는 ``차시별 교육과정의 내용요소``, ``과학적 방법``과 ``현대과학철학``, ``탐구과정요소``, ``오수벨의 유의미학습``, ``로슨의 순환학습``과 ``협동학습``, ``수행평가 준거 개발`` 등에서 많은 내용이 출제되었다. 반면에 과학교육자들 사이에서 ``과학사``와 같이 예비 고학교사에게 중요한 주제로 여겨지지만 중등과학교사임용시험에서는 출제가 거의 이루어지지 않은 영역도 많이 있었다. 중등과학교사임용시험이 예비교사들의 전문성 함양을 위한 노력에 영향을 미치기 때문에 예비교사들이 익혀야 할 과학교육학 이론의 양과 수준에 대해 많은 연구가 요구된다.

Satisfactions with Teaching and Learning Practices at Science Core Schools and Directions for Improvement

Education Research Insitute, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea(Received 12 November 2012 : revised 18 December 2012 : accepted 4 April 2013)The aims of this study were to investigate to what extents teaching and learning practices atscience core schools were satisfactory and to propose effective directions for school-based improve-ment. To these ends, questionnaires to investigate to what extents the schools’ curriculum, teachingand learning practices, and effectiveness were satisfactory and to form opinions on school improve-ment were developed and administered to 4,504 students, 4,445 parents, and 851 mathematics andscience teachers at 50 science core schools at the beginning of fall semester 2011. First, students,parents and mathematics and science teachers were found to show high levels of satisfaction withthe teaching and learning practices at science core schools. Also, students of science core programswere found to show higher satisfaction with teaching and learning practices than students of naturalscience/technology programs and students of humanity programs. There was a tendency to shiftfrom teacher-centered to student-centered practices. Demands for varied teaching strategies forquality learning were expressed by students and parents.

Analysis of Characteristics of Gifted Students in the Science Gifted Activity using Rainbow

The purpose of this study was to analyze the characteristics of science gifted students who participated in science gifted activity using rainbow. For this purpose, the science gifted activity using rainbow was developed and applied to 23 seventh grade science gifted students. The results indicated that gifted students had various concepts and ideas of optics. For example, some gifted students thought that there was rainbowshaped light at the place of rainbow, and another considered the process of dispersion of light in a waterdrop would be same as the process of the dispersion in the prism. Also, various rainbow theories and scientific imagination of gifted students were found. For devising new rainbow, gifted students used two strategies, `changing the features` and `changing conditions`. In addition, we discussed effective methods of applying this activity and implications to science gifted education.