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KMID : 1059520140580030324
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Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
2014 Volume.58 No. 3 p.324 ~ p.337
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Characteristics of Science-Gifted Elementary Students’ Reflection of Their Science Classes
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Park Ji-Eun
Kang Hun-Sik
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Abstract
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This study investigated the characteristics of science-gifted elementary students’ reflection of their science classes. To do this, 91 reflective journals of 20 science-gifted elementary students were analyzed in terms of ‘productive reflection’. The results revealed that the mean score of the inclusion scores, which mean the number of aspects of teaching included, was 2.99 on a scale of 5 points and was not significantly correlated with grade level. Most of the reflective journals included the aspects of ‘science-gifted students (93.4%)’. ‘Instructional strategies and instruction for science-gifted education (70.3%)’, ‘subject matter knowledge (68.1%)’, and ‘curriculum for science-gifted education (57.1%)’ were also frequently included. However, ‘assessment in science-gifted education (9.9%)’ was hardly included. The mean score of the integration scores, which mean the number of aspects of teaching integrated as an index of productive reflection, was 2.84 on a scale of 5 points and was not significantly correlated with grade level. 6.6% of the journals showed no integrations. 34.1% of the journals integrated only two aspects, 39.6% of the journals integrated three aspects, 25.3% of the journals integrated four aspects, and no journals integrated all five aspects. Especially, the integrations between ‘science-gifted students (100.0%)’ and the other aspects were included in all journals. The integrations between ‘instructional strategies and instruction for sciencegifted education (70.3%)’ and/or ‘subject matter knowledge (65.9%)’ and/or ‘curriculum for science-gifted education (53.8%)’ and the other aspects were also frequently included. However, the integrations between ‘assessment in science-gifted education (9.9%)’ and the other aspects were hardly included. There were no statistically significant differences between experimentcentered instruction and theory-centered instruction in the inclusion and integration scores. However, there were more diverse inclusion and integration types, and more aspects tended to be included or integrated in experiment-centered instruction than in theory-centered instruction.
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KEYWORD
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Reflective journal, Productive reflection, Science-gifted elementary students’ reflection of science class
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