The purpose of this study is to analyze the writing style and features of elementary school student gifted for science and understand effect of them on students’ ability of creative problem-solving. Writing style and features of elementary school st...
The purpose of this study is to analyze the writing style and features of elementary school student gifted for science and understand effect of them on students’ ability of creative problem-solving. Writing style and features of elementary school students are revealed in organization activity which uses science note.
This study is based on 37 elementary school students who are 6th grade at education institute for gifted which is affiliated organization of P, Gyeonggi-do Office of Education Support.
To develop the science note, science note is organized by comparing and analyzing the science note which is used for the previous researches. One hour-long prior education, which teaches the instruction of using science note, is provided to elementary school student. Elementary school students took science classes and wrote 8 different notes. Each of the science classes lasted 4 hours. Students learn various topics in each four fours of science class. Recorded notes are analyzed as internal and external expression types and features of science writing. To test the effect of writing style and features on ability of creative problem-solving of elementary school student gifted for science, questionnaire which tests creative ability of problem-solving in science is used.
As the result of study, in the organization activity which uses science note, external expression types and features of science writing which the elementary school student gifted for science wrote. “The content which is learned today(main learning content)” which is one of components of science note took the most part of the writing. “The content which is learned today” appears the most frequently in the writing, followed by writing+ drawing, drawing, cartoon, writing+cartoon, mind map, table.
Science writing which uses inductive thinking appears the most frequently in internal expression types and features of scientific writing, followed by deductive thinking, creative thinking. Since the critical thinking did not appear, it is excluded from type and feature of scientific writing.
Among the components of science note, ‘thinking and feeling’, ‘question,’ ‘one’s own thinking of question’ which are the components of science note promote the reflective thinking of elementary school student gifted for science. Students could reflect and looked back at their learning through the process of reorganizing the content learned in the science class into their own language. This shows that organization activity which uses science has an effective effect on ability of creative problem-solving of elementary school student gifted for science.