Chan-Jong Kim

• Professor
• Faculty Member at Seoul National University

Literature has emphasised the need for SSI education to systematically address the risks produced by modern society. This study examines the quality of risk-focused, socio-scientific arguments generated by 22 elementary students in South Korea, concerning nuclear power. Participants read two articles with opposing views on the nuclear phase-out pol...

Data collection is crucial in securing evidence to support students' arguments during scientific inquiries. However, due to the high costs associated with equipping schools with various measurement devices, students are limited in the scope of their scientific inquiry. Arduino can be proposed as a solution to the lack of measurement devices in scho...

This multi-phase study designed a program evaluation rubric which used a qualitative rating system to help teachers identify key learning goals, dimensions, and principles related to the socio-scientific issues (SSI)-based science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics (STEAM) approach for science education. This rubric contains 37 criteria...

Education in Korea is based on the ideal of Hongik Ingan—‘contributing to the overall benefit of humankind’. The chapter discussed the recent 2015 curriculum that was developed in collaboration with families and local communities. It includes six key competences: self-management competence, knowledge-information processing skills, creative thinking...

This study contributes to the literature by shedding light on students’ learning by examining and comparing students’ gestures in two educational contexts: geological field trips and classroom-based modeling activities. This study engaged 10 middle-school students in two different geological field trips and two classroom-based modeling activities a...

Objectives The purpose of this study is to develop the R&E program focused on data literacy and verify the effectiveness of the program by applying it to science gifted school students. Methods The developed R&E program was applied to 4 first-year students of a science gifted school in the metropolitan area. We analyzed students' research output, s...

Citizen science education is a new approach in science education for promoting scientific inquiry related to localized problems and for engaging in social action based on inquiry results. Using agency as a lens for understanding teachers’ practices when using this approach is important. In this ethnographic case study, a teacher implementing a citi...

Citizen science is expected to play an important role in relation to scientific literacy Vision III for students living in the future society. This study aims to identify the characteristics of extreme citizen science ( ECS ) and extreme citizen scientists ( ECS s) and to derive key competencies of ECS s using literature analysis from Korean and in...

This study describes the development of a climate change SSIBL-STEAM program that was aligned to the Grade 6 elementary school national curriculum using the ADDIE model for design. The efficacy of the climate change SSIBL-STEAM program was investigated by measuring the impact of the program on cultivating elementary students’ personalities (sociali...

Data collection is an essential process of securing evidence to support students’ arguments in conducting a scientific inquiry of problems students are interested in. However, as schools are not affordable to be equipped with various measurement instruments, students are only offered limited options, leading to possible limitations in choosing thei...

In the present age, when the development of science and technology is leading the changes, this study supports the view that students should possess the literacy to participate democratically and critically in socio-scientific issues, and should be positioned as agentic and participatory citizens. Accordingly, we implemented a club activity that em...

This study employed a multi-phased process to guide the development of an approach for integrating socio-scientific issues ( SSI ) and science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics ( STEAM ) education in a way that can reform how science is taught in schools to improve scientific literacy. This approach can help teachers connect science a...

This study aims to investigate climate literacy among junior high school students participating in an SSI-STEAM climate change education program and to examine the impacts of the program on the cultivation of climate literacy. Thirty-one eighth-grade students in Seoul, Korea, participated in this study. Data were collected using pre- and post-progr...

Teachers do not simply deliver a set curriculum, but carry out classes based on practical knowledge, including their values, beliefs, and experiences. Therefore, it is meaningful to investigate the practical knowledge of teaching among teachers in terms of orientation, structure, and content in order to understand the teacher’s knowledge, conflicts...

As the global climate change emergency is escalating, the need for ‘Social Action-Oriented SSI (SAO-SSI) on climate change topics’ in science education that can change society through social activity is increasing. By employing sociocultural theory, this study explores the challenges of limiting teacher’s agency in implementing SAO-SSI on climate c...

We examine the major technical problems that students experience in authentic scientific inquiry and propose an Arduino-based device, adapting the Internet of Things technology, which is designed for the school science in order to solve those technical problems. Three major technical problems as follows: First, it is difficult to have a variety of...

This study is aimed at understanding the identity formation of pre-service science teachers ( PST s) who are transitioning from students to teachers and from science/engineering majors to education majors. This was done using the conceptual lens of identity within a specific socio-cultural context. The participants were three undergraduate students...

This research explored the characteristics of students’ activities and their artifacts during their participation in climate change club projects and investigated the impacts of the club project participation on students’ ecological citizenship. Climate change club projects were developed to help students understand climate change, investigate clim...

This study explored types and intensities of students’ emotions related to participation in school-based SSI club project related to climate change ( CE ). Ten high school students participated twice a week for 7 weeks in club activities to model causes/ impacts of CE , explore local problems related to CE , and plan and participate in social actio...

Climate change education ( CCE ) programs should foster citizen response to climate change by integrating knowledge/skill development with reflection on the need for actively changing current social systems and personal actions. An analytical framework was developed to examine 16 Korean and international CCE programs to identify (1) structure and c...

The purpose of this study was to examine middle school students’ gestures during a geological field trip. Previous research on gestures has focused on understanding human development and exploring students’ gestures can be helpful in improving understanding of students’ communication in learning environments. In this study, middle school students f...

In the meantime, education has stayed in education but has not been successful in practice. Education was different from the context of one's life, and education could not be used to solve life problems. Learners could not change their surroundings, which soon led to skepticism of education. To overcome these limitations, recent education emphasize...

The purpose of this study was to explore qualitatively students’ learning effects in geological field trip utilizing scientific models and modeling in the National Geo-park the Hantan-River as site to implement outdoor geology learning. We took into account Orion’s Novelty Space(1993) and consisted of ‘Orion’s three-step-class(1989). We analyzed bo...

This study investigated the influence of an explicit and reflective modeling instruction on the metamodeling knowledge of fourth-graders. Two fourth-grade classes in an elementary school in Seoul were selected and each class was assigned to an experimental group and a control group, respectively. The experimental group was engaged in explicit and r...

Featured Application Swarm robots, including sensors that emit safety lights, collect traffic information from ad-hoc networks to make it easier for commuters to drive easily or help them decide not to drive. The robot interaction is transferred directly face-to-face to vehicles nearby, and through mobile apps for distant drivers. Abstract A new r...

The object of this research is designing of new robot-to-robot communication system working in the middle of highway/roads to support mobile safety for approaching vehicles. The result of research project directs to a group of safety robot devices which induce a vehicle on a bypass route, as a vehicle guidance method using the same, and a vehicle s...

Technology is affecting not only our lives but also education. As the use of technology in education has increased, educators are required to have a high level of computer skills. Without the proper ability to develop technology, there are considerable restrictions because the instructional design is possible only within the range of the existing p...

Technology is affecting not only our lives but also education. As the use of technology in education has increased, educators are required to have a high level of computer skills. Without the proper ability to develop technology, there are considerable restrictions because the instructional design is possible only within the range of the existing p...

This study aims to understand interactions in Korean elementary science classrooms, which are heavily influenced by Confucianism. Ethnographic observations of two elementary science teachers’ classrooms in Korea are provided. Their classes are fairly traditional teaching, which mean teacher-centered interactions are dominant. To understand the powe...

스마트기기 등 컴퓨터 기술이 교육 활동에 도입되면서 교육자들은 높은 수준의 컴퓨터 활용 능력을 요구받고 있다. 컴퓨터 매체를 이용하여 교육 활동을 전개할 때 애플리케이션을 개발할 능력이 없다면, 기존 만들어진 애플리케이션의 범위 내에서만 교육 설계가 가능하므로 교육 설계에 있어 상당한 제약을 받게 된다. 하지만 많은 수의 과학교육자들은 대체로 프로그래밍에 문외한이고, 심지어는 두려움을 가지고 있어서 일반적인 공학자들을 대상으로 하는 앱 개발 교육으로는 제대로 된 앱 제작 능력을 갖출 수가 없다. 따라서 과학교육자들에게 특화된 앱 제작 교육 커리큘럼을 개발할 필요성이 있다. 이 연구에서는 컴맹 과학교육자를 대상으로 하는...

In this study, we developed a computer program for analyzing research articles through automatic content analysis, and analyzed International Journal of Science Education and Journal of Research in Science Teaching research articles from 2008 to 2015. The existing studies only analyzed the frequency of specific factors such as research topics, auth...

The research objective of this study is to analyze the aspects of small group decision-making process based on reading news reports in the context of the socio-scientific issues (SSI) activity related to climate change. Twenty-two high school students from Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, were asked to read two news reports on the UN climate change...

For students, astronomy is not only interesting but also difficult to learn. However, there is a limit in learning astronomy in a school science setting since astronomy is vast subject. Fortunately, science museums can be helpful in overcoming this limitation. Experiences in science museum provide something that any descriptions or illustrations ca...

The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of Cogenerative Dialogues embedded in a modelingcentered science learning and instruction on 7th grade female studentsí understanding of scientific models and modelling A total of 49 7th grade female students in two classrooms participated in a series of five modeling-centered science lessons, an...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the changes of students` modeling ability in terms of `meta-modeling knowledge` and `modeling practice` through co-construction of scientific model. Co-construction of scientific model instructions about astronomy were given to 41 middle-school students. The students were given a before and after instruct...

This study sought to explore longitudinal changes in Korean fourth graders' career aspirations in science. The sample included those who had high interest, but low career aspirations in science, and the analysis focused on the concept of science identity. To achieve this study's objectives, we selected 14 participants and then conducted two in-dept...

The epistemology of science and teachers' perspectives on it have been major lines of investigation in science education research. The role that epistemology should play in science education has become increasingly relevant because of its incorporation within some important curriculum reform movements around the world. Improving teachers' perspecti...

In this study, we explored the development of scientific model through the social-construction process on "combustion." Students were 8th graders from one middle school class. Each student engaged in small group discussions three times and made a group model on combustion. Discourses between peers and teacher were videotaped, audiotaped, and transc...

Elementary children, hoping for jobs in science/engineering(Sci/Eng) or medicine(Med), were surveyed on the reasons for jobs, science/math preferences, interests in science, and science aspirations. For 3rd grade boys, twice more students picked Sci/Eng than Med choices. However, for 6th grade boys, the numbers of Sci/Eng and Med became close. The...

This study was to examine elementary students` expectations on informal science learning in science museums which have characteristics of free choice learning. 5^{th} and 6^{th} grade students in two different elementary schools in Gyeonggi province participated in the survey and 330 samples were collected. Subcategories for the survey were categor...

The aim of this study is to explore why Korean 4th graders` interest in science was not connected to career aspirations in science using the perspective of science identity. Forty-five students with a high interest in science but with low science-related aspirations have been chosen from 488 elementary school students who have completed a questionn...

The major goal of this study is to present, develop, and use the concept of learning affordance, in order to understand visitors’ learning in relation to the possibilities offered by science museum environment. Participants were 7th–11th-grade students (12–16 years old) in Seoul Metropolitan area in Korea. Research site was Gwacheon National Scienc...

In this study, we explored the factors related with preference for and participation in science-related activities of elementary school students. We developed a questionnaire to measure the characteristics of students such as motivation toward science learning, science aspiration, family science orientation, parental educational level and occupatio...

The purpose of this research is to understand interactive learning during docent-led tours in a science museum focusing on scaffolding. We developed a scaffolding framework by collating the work of other researchers in related fields. The results show that scaffolding included three dimensions: purpose, interaction, and domain. The purpose dimensio...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the characteristics of social interaction on cultural aspects, verbal interaction, and discussion maps in scientific modeling instruction on combustion in middle school. Revised-CLEQ (Cultural Learning Environment Questionnaire), verbal interaction framework, discussion maps analysis were implemented for...

This study aimed to find out the current conditions and the characteristics of elementary students' science-related engagement in informal education setting. For this, we conducted a survey targeting 645 grader elementary students of three elementary school in Seoul. The results were described as following aspects: first, the place, the engagement...

In this chapter, we offer an overview of education in the Republic of Korea, paying particular attention to the sociohistorical contexts that have led to the development of the modern educational system and current practices in K-12 science education. Building from this introduction, we provide an analysis of recent trends in science education achi...

This study investigated two science teachers' practical knowledge shaped during their science classes which intend to realize social construction of scientific models. The teachers' practical knowledge was qualitatively examined in terms of five content categories defined by Elbaz through the reflection-in-action based on video data of their teachi...

This study undertook a methodological investigation on previous research that had proposed alternative methods for analyzing argumentative discourse in science classes in terms of collaborative construction and epistemic enactments of argumentation. The study also proposed a new way of analyzing argumentation discourse based on the achievements and...

In this study, we investigated science-related activities in everyday life perceived by elementary school students, and their preference and participation in the activities. We also analyzed the differences by student's gender and interest in science. We developed a questionnaire of what activities elementary school students participated in daily e...

This study investigated several cases of interactive learning mediated by exhibits in a natural history hall during visits by middle school students. Five visiting cases were selected, in which visitors engaged actively in the interactions between them. Each visiting case was analyzed in terms of visiting discourse register and the modes of interac...

The purpose of this study was to explore the patterns of group model development about blood flow in the heart and reasoning process by small group interaction. The subjects were 14, 8th graders in a Science Gifted Center. The group discussion was made possible by using triggering questions that can be answered based on experiences of hands-on acti...

The purpose of this study is to analyze the argumentation of gifted students in the perspective of rebuttal. Rebuttal is a significant indicator of argumentation quality; it is also an essential component for science learning through interaction. However, most previous research point out insufficient use of rebuttal in student's argumentation. The...

Many science education research and practices are recently emphasizing the importance of collaborative learning. This study also understands learning in aspects of socio-cultural context, and regarded the creation of meaning in a same-age group as an important learning process. This is most especially true in the premise that the formation of roles...

This study try to analyze feature of model creation and model developing process for gifted students and the activity of students and teachers affected those processes in scientific model constructing class for phase change of moon. For this, I teach scientific model constructing class for science gifted students. I shoot video and record the voice...

This study try to analyze the effect that personal and social factors affects the interactions among science gifted students. For this, I analyze the interacting role of science gifted students in social co-construction and scientific model constructing class for phase change and rising-sinking time of moon and categorize according to type. I analy...

The purpose of the study was to classify scientific models in the seventh grade science textbooks of the 2007 revised science curriculum. The three chapters of 'three states of material', 'motion of molecule', and 'change of state and energy' were investigated. There were two types of the scientific model as 'mode of representation' and 'attribute...

This study aims to identify unique small group norms and their influence on the process of constructing a scientific model. We developed instructional materials for the construction of a model of blood flow in the heart and conducted research on eighth-grade students from one middle school. We randomly selected 10 small groups, and videotaped and r...

The purpose of this study is to explore the types of interlanguage that middle school students use in learning about the concept of diastrophism. Eighteen students from two classes in a middle school in Seoul participated in the study and each participant was interviewed four times. Data were analyzed in terms of semantic relations and thematic pat...

The purpose of this study is to analyse the descriptive characteristics of the label texts related to Earth Science at a science museum and a natural history museum in Korea. The data were collected from Korean National Science Museum and Seodaemun Natural History Museum. The analysis framework was modified according to the Systemic Functional Ling...

This study investigated the modalities of science teaching practice and students' pedagogic subject positioning through the linguistic features of science classroom discourse and the discursive interaction. For this purpose, this study sought to develop a methodology for classroom discourse analysis, the TMARC (Triangular Model of Analyzing discour...

The study investigated the linguistic characteristics of middle school students' writing on the themes of earth science through analysis of its genre and register. Data for analysis included grade and grade students' writings about 'global warming' and 'classification of rocks'. The results of this study include: First, many students were not accus...

In this study, we investigated the interlanguage of ninth graders that was used to classify and explain the phenomena related to the change of the matters in a group discussion and semi-structured interview. The patterns of the interlanguage were classified and analyzed through the change of their understanding of science languages. The analyses of...

'Science festival' is an annual public event featuring a variety of science- and technology-related workshops and live demonstrations of experiments by student presenters. This study was to explore the student presenters' and student visitors' perceptions of the science festival. The subjects were 323 student presenters who managed laboratory booth...

This study identified the linguistic features of Earth science treatises through the analysis of the register. Data included three Korean treatises that were in geology, atmospheric science, and oceanography. The register of Earth science treatise was as follows: First, there were semantic, referential connections between Themes and Rhemes, that th...

Scientifically gifted students` argumentation characteristics in science instruction using the internet messenger was investigated. Participants in this study were five 9th grader in middle school in Seoul. They attended a program offered by the Science-Gifted Education Center, Seoul National University. Internet messenger (instant messenger) was u...

This study analyzed discourse types and meaning making strategies used in a secondary beginning science teacher`s class. A voluntary middle school science teacher participated in this study, and her instruction was observed and videotaped. The analysis consisted of two parts. First, we categorized the types of discourses occurred in class. Second,...

This study aimed at developing a set of question cards for fostering deep understanding and encouraging reasoning about fossils and analyze the characteristics of visitors' communication depending on whether to use the question cards in a fossil gallery. Through several steps, a card set consisted of nine generic questions about fossil exhibitions...

Recently, scientific literacy means not only the acquisition of scientific knowledge but also the linguistic ability to participate in a scientific discourse community. Keeping this in mind, this study investigated middle school students' writings about phase transitions of water in air. Sixty seven students at 9th grade (age 15) students participa...

Since the North Korean food crisis in the 1990's, the numbers of North Korean defectors who have successfully crossed the border have increased rapidly. Over the last decade there are 15,000 North Korean defectors came to settle in South Korea. The purpose of this study is to investigate the types of learner identity of North Korean Defectors based...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the aspect of variation of the texts in elementary and secondary school science textbooks at each grade level in terms of linguistic features. Data included some of the written texts related to 'Volcano and Earthquake' in Korean elementary and secondary school science textbooks in the seventh National Cur...

The purpose of this study was to explore 8th-grade students' imageries of the Earth. We analyzed the middle school students' imageries about the Earth represented with words and drawings in Earth Systems Understanding (ESU, hereafter) framework. The students' imageries about 'the Earth' are vary by their experiences and prior-knowledge, which signi...

The purpose of this study was to investigate how a science magazine played a role in filling the gap between scientists and the general public, and how it contributed to science popularization. We analyzed the linguistic features of the texts used in a science magazine. We used 12 articles (six written by journalists, and six written by scientists)...

The purpose of this study was to explore science teacher's epistemological understanding of science and science teaching and learning, from the perspective of inquiry as the process of scientific knowledge building. Three science teachers participated in this study. The data were collected from individual in-depth interviews and classroom videotapi...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the formation and development of science teachers' practical knowledge by life history. In the sociocultural perspective, a science teacher is a producer and consumer of knowledge. There were two secondary science teachers who participated in this study. Each of them had three to six years experience in t...

This study aimed at understanding the characteristics of interactive discourses between docents and visitors in natural history museums. Two docents participated in this study. One worked in Seodaemoon Natural History Museum and the other in Gwacheon National Science Museum. To analyze the characteristics of interactive discourses, especially under...

Inquiry became an essential methodology in science education. Recently, argumentation becomes more important in inquiry, but inquiry-based teaching in school science would not provide enough opportunities for students to have voluntary and active interactions during inquiry activities. Informal science learning can be an alternative for authentic i...

We assumed that natural history museums have rooms for functioning as institutions for the environmental education, especially in aspects of multi-disciplinary, informal education. So we set goals of this research as finding 1) how much environmental education contents are reflected in exhibits of natural history museums, and 2) what those charact...

The ESE (Earth Systems Education) teaching module was developed to teach an "Earth and Star" unit for the 8th grade (aged 14) students. The planet remodeling activity was developed as a sub-ESE teaching module. The main point of this activity was that students were supposed to remodel planets for life to live on. The purpose of this study was to vi...

The purpose of this study was to explore the characteristics of children's interactive learning focusing on the Vygotsky's ZPD (the zone of proximal development) in a natural history museum as a representative free-choice learning context. We focused on the understanding of peer dyadic discourses and data were collected from 13 peer groups of child...

The purpose of this study is to understand how a teacher's teaching can be changed while he or she teaches the same contents in different classes. The qualitative research method was used in this study. Data were collected from classroom observations, several in-depth interviews, and stimulated-recall interviews after each class. All the data were...