과학자 읽기 자료의 도입이 과학자의 이미지와 과학에 대한 태도에 미치는 효과 - 성차를 중심으로 = Effects of Reading Materials about Scientists on the Attitude Toward Science and Images of Scientists - Focusing on Gender Differences

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This research was designed to verify the effects of reading materials about scientists on the attitude toward science and images of scientists. The studies have been conducted for students in the tenth grade science class. In experimental group, students were instructed to read the reading material regarding the role models of five female scientists in class, while a control group were furnished with those of male scientists. Before and after instruction, the pre- and post-test about attitudes toward science and images of scientists were administered. In general, it was found that they successfully cast away the stereotyped images of scientists with the aid of the reading materials. There were significant differences between two groups in gender of a scientist (p=.000).Namely, more students in the experimental group had drawn the pictures of female scientists than those in the control group. In addition, test score in attitude toward science have shown significant differences between pre-and post-test (p ( .001). And, the experimental group score is higher than control group (p ( .05). Accordingly, this research has verified that the reading materials about scientists, especially of female scientists, can have favorable influence on the attitudes and images of scientists.