121st General Meeting of the KCS

Type Oral Presentation
Area New Trends in Chemistry Education
Room No. Room 400
Time THU 10:30-:
Code EDU.O-4
Subject APPLICTION OF 2015’ INQUIRY-BASED SCIENCE ASSESSMENT QUESTIONS (CHEMISTRY DOMAIN) FOR KOREAN ELEMENTARY STUDENTS
Authors Young Tae Kong
General Science Education, Chinju National University of Education, Korea
Abstract Abstract This study is to investigate the Korean student’s response on inquiry-based assessment questions in science assessment and analyze students’ responses in purpose of evaluating scientific inquiry abilities of fifth and sixth grade students in Korea. In this study, we mainly report the result about Chemistry content domain among assessment questions. The results were as follows. First, scientific inquiry abilities of sixth graders in Korea elementary school are lower than that of their general school’s assessment. Second, students’ preconception and misconceptions in Chemistry content domain were obtained through the development and application of inquiry-based assessment questions, and teaching approaches for increasing students’ inquiry skills were also obtained. Key words: Inquiry based assessment, Elementary student, Inquiry ability, Korea, Matter domain Acknowledgments: This work was supported by National Research Foundation of Korea Grant funded by the Korean Government (NRF-2016R1D1A1B02008712).
E-mail ytkong@cue.ac.kr