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Development and Application of Questionnaire for Self-Understanding and Change Capacity Related to Science Education: Focus on the Recognition of Pre-Service Elementary Teachers

과학교육 관련 자기이해와 변화역량 조사 도구 개발 및 적용 -초등예비교사의 인식을 중심으로-

  • Received : 2018.12.12
  • Accepted : 2018.12.26
  • Published : 2018.12.31
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Abstract

The purpose of this study is to develop the questionnaire on pre-service elementary teachers' recognition of self-understanding and change capacity for science education and to investigate their recognitions with it. At the beginning of the study, we made a tool to investigate the self-understanding and change capacity of pre-service elementary teachers through literature review and discussions. The former half of the questionnaire was related to self-understanding with factors such as 'self-concept clarity,' 'career identity' and 'self-efficacy:' 'self-understanding as a pre-service elementary teacher' (12 items) and 'self-understanding as a pre-service elementary science teacher' (12 items). Its latter half was about the change capacity with factors such as 'change sensitivity,' 'goal consciousness,' 'collaboration,' 'reflection,' and 'mastery.' It consisted of three parts: 'general change capacity,' 'change capacity as a pre-service elementary teacher' and 'change capacity as a pre-service elementary science teacher' with 17 items, respectively. With this tool, we surveyed 153 pre-service elementary teachers. The results are as follows: First, pre-service elementary teachers have a positive recognition about self-understanding and change capacity, but the recognition of self-understanding and change capacity as pre-service elementary science teachers were relatively less positive. Second, factors of self-understanding and change capacity as pre-service elementary science teachers have a significant correlation with each other. Especially, there was a high correlation between 'self-efficacy' of self-understanding and 'goal consciousness' and 'mastery' of change capacity. Based on these results, some implications for self-understanding and change capacity related to science education were discussed.

본 연구는 초등예비교사들을 대상으로 과학교육 관련 자기이해와 변화역량에 대한 인식 조사 도구를 개발하고, 이를 활용하여 초등예비교사들이 가지고 있는 자기이해와 자신의 변화역량에 대한 인식을 조사하는 것을 목적으로 하였다. 먼저 선행 연구 검토와 토론 등을 거쳐 초등예비교사들의 자기이해와 변화역량에 대한 인식 조사 도구를 제작하였다. 설문지의 전반부는 자기이해와 관련되는데 '자기개념 명료성', '진로정체성', '자기효능감'을 요인으로 하여, '초등예비교사로서의 자기이해'(12개 문항)와 '초등과학예비교사로서의 자기이해'(12개 문항)에 대한 내용으로 구성하였다. 설문지의 후반부는 '변화감수성', '목표의식', '협력', '성찰', '숙달'을 요인으로 하는 변화역량에 관한 내용으로, '일반적인 변화역량'(17개 문항)과 '초등예비교사로서의 변화역량'(17개 문항), '초등과학예비교사로서의 변화역량'(17개 문항)에 대하여 각각 인식 조사 문항을 작성하였다. 이 조사 도구를 사용하여 153명의 초등예비교사들을 대상으로 자기이해와 변화역량에 대한 인식을 조사한 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 초등예비교사들은 자기이해와 변화역량에 대해 대체로 긍정적인 인식을 가지고 있었지만 초등과학예비교사로서의 자기이해와 변화역량에 대한 인식은 상대적으로 덜 긍정적이었다. 둘째, 초등과학예비교사로서의 자기 이해와 변화역량 요인들은 대체로 유의미한 상관을 가지고 있었으며, 특히 자기이해의 '자기효능감'과 변화역량의 '목표의식', '숙달' 사이에 높은 상관이 있었다. 이러한 결과를 바탕으로 자기이해와 변화역량 관련 과학 교육을 위한 몇 가지 시사점에 대해 논의하였다.

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Table 1. Participants of the study

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Table 2. The structure of questionnaire in the instrument (Version 1)

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Table 3. The result of the factor analysis (Version 2 of the questionnaire about ‘self-understanding’)

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Table 4. The structure of questionnaire about ‘self-understanding’ (Version 2) and the results of Cronbach’s alpha

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Table 5. The result of the factor analysis (Version 2 of the questionnaire about ‘change capacity’)

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Table 6. The structure of questionnaire about ‘change capacity’ (Version 2) and the results of Cronbach’s alpha

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Table 7. Analysis of the responses to the questionnaire of ‘self-understanding’ in terms of factors and items

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Table 8. Analysis of the responses to the questionnaire of ‘self-understanding’ in terms of factors according to high school major

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Table 9. Analysis of the responses to the questionnaire of ‘change capacity’ in terms of factors and items

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Table 10. Correlations among factors of ‘self-understanding’ and ‘change capacity’ as a pre-service elementary science teacher

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