The Study attempts to verify the effects of expository and inquiry instruction on learning attitude and academic achievement of health education in elementary school. For the accomplishment of the above purpose, specific problems were formulated as follows :
The expository instruction is based on David Ausubel´s Advance Organizers and the inquiry instruction, Richard Suchman´s Inquiry Training in this study.
To testify the above research problems, 247 students of six classes were randomly sampled from sixth graders of "Y" elementary school, located in Suwon city. One group was taught by expository instruction method and other group was taught by instruction method.
The measurement tools used in this study were learning attitude test, pre-post academic achievement test, expository teaching-learning sheets and inquiry teaching-learning sheets. The experimental treatments had been lasted for eight weeks from June to October 1996. After the experimental treatments, to testify the effects of the experiment, the pre-test and post-test were administered and the results of the tests were compared by t-test.
The conclusions were as follows ;
1. There was a significant difference between expository and inquiry instruction(p<.001). Inquiry instruction was more effective than expository instruction in changing learning attitude.
2. There was a significant difference between expository and inquiry instruction(p<.001). expository instruction was more effective than Inquiry instruction in changing academic achievement.
This study suggests that instructional method should be determined in accordance with the purpose of the lesson.
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