공통과학 중 생물 분야의 탐구활동 분석 = Research Articles : An Analysis of Inquiry Activities of the Biology Part in Common Sciences of Korean High Schools

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The purpose of this study is to analyze the inquiry activities in the biology part of 12 common sciences textbooks developed for the 6th National Curriculum The results of analyses based on a dimensional analysis framework which contains inquiry content, inquiry process, and inquiry context were as follows: 1. The number of inquiry activities in 12 textbooks was 384 in all and showed an average of 32 per textbook. 2. The order in types of inquiry activities showed interpreting data(61.4%), experiment(18.7%), survey(7.6%), discussion(7.6%), survey discussion(3.9%), try(0.5%), and observation(0.3%). Therefore interpreting data has the largest percentage of all the inquiry activities. 3. an the analysis of the inquiry content, the rate of inquiry activities indicated organismic energy(10.7%), energy flow and reservation(6.3%), nutrition and health(18.2%), stimulus and reaction(15.6%), reproduction(11.4%), heredity(14.8%), selfpurification(8.9%), biological amplification(7.3%), and life sciences(6.8%). So, nutrition and health has the largest rate of inquiry contents. 4. As to the analysis of the inquiry process, the percentage of inquiry process presented formulating a problem and generating a hypothesis(28.5%), designing and developing experiment(15.1%), interpreting data(40.0%), and drawing a conclusion and evaluation(19.4%). Hence, interpreting data has the largest percentage of inquiry processes. 5. Concerning the analysis of the inquiry context, the proportion of inquiry context displayed pure scientific context(59.5%), personal context(16.6%), technological context(5.3%), social context(7.7%), and natural environmental context(10.9%). For that reason, the pure scientific context has the largest proportion of inquiry contexts.