Jeonghee Nam

Jeonghee Nam
Pusan National University | PNU · Department of Chemistry Education

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One of the goals of chemistry education is to connect the macroscopic perspective with the microscopic perspective. The model is a tool to connect these two perspectives and based on observing and understanding scientific phenomena that occurs in the natural world. In a science classroom, the model can be used as a tool of communication to explain...
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The purpose of this study was to investigate a mentor-teacher qualification standard to support professional development for beginning secondary science teachers. The participants were four mentee teachers and four mentor-teachers. The relationship between the development of beginning science teachers teaching practice and characteristics of the me...
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This study focused on the use of student assessment activities to investigate the impact on reflective thinking in Argument-based Inquiry. The participants of the study were 166 10th grade students (six classes). Over one semester, students participated in five ABI programs that we developed. The experimental group (84 students) was taught Argument...
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of negotiation in Argument-Based Inquiry on students' claim and evidence. A total of 126 first grade middle school students participated in this study and they performed five Argument- Based Inquiry (ABI) programs for one academic a year. To investigate the process of generating claim and evid...
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This study aimed to examine the effects of embedding multimodal representation instruction within writing to learn tasks on students’ understanding of scientific concepts and scientific writing. Participants of this study were seventy-seven 8th grade students in three pre-existing classes in Korea. Three classes were divided into a treatment group...
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The purpose of this study is to examine the problems in the teaching practice of beginning science teachers who participated in the collaborative mentoring program to improve their teaching expertise. The participants were six beginning science teachers and six mentors at middle and high school levels. From each beginning science teacher and mentor...
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This study focused on the use of peer assessment activities to investigate its the impact on students` argumentation skills in argument-based inquiry. The participants of the study were 106 10th grade students (four classes). Two classes were assigned to the experimental group, and the other two classes were assigned to the comparative group. The e...
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the cognitive process of student`s modeling on a modeling-emphasized argument-based general chemistry experiment. The participants were twenty-one freshman students. Six topics were carried out during the first semester and semi-structured interview was implemented at the end of the semester. Semi-structu...
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the argumentation of middle school students during the argumentbased inquiry. A total of sixty eight 8th grade middle school students participated in this study and they performed six argument- based inquiry programs. Data were collected from two of the latest programs by audio-recording and transcriptio...
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The purpose of this study was to examine mentor teachers' difficulties during their collaborative mentoring process to improve beginning science teachers' teaching practice. Participants were fourteen science teachers. This study collected questionnaires for mentor teachers' perception of the mentoring program, questionnaires for mentor teachers' e...
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of argument-based modeling strategy using scientific writing on student`s modeling ability. For this study, 66 students (three classes) from the 7th grade were selected and of these, 43 students (two classes) were assigned to two experimental groups while the other 23 students (one class) were...
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The purpose of this study is to develop an argument-based modeling strategy, utilizing writing and argumentation for communication in science education. We need to support students and teachers who have difficulty in modeling in science education, this strategy focuses on development of four kinds of factors as follows: First, awareness of problems...
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The purpose of this research was to investigate the relationship between the change of beginning teachers' beliefs about a lesson and that of teaching practice and argument-based inquiry using science writing. Participants were three science teachers (A, B, and C) from different middle schools. Classroom observation and interview data were collecte...
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The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of the reading framework on college students' reflective thinking in argumentation-based general chemistry laboratory. A total of 17 first grade college students taking general chemistry laboratory participated in this study, with 7 in the treatment group and the other 10 in the comparative group....
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The purpose of this study was to examine the change of the beginning science teachers' perception change through the mentoring program. Participants in this study were four mento-teachers, one university professor, two teachers in doctor, two teacher in doctor's or master's course, and four mentee-teachers who had less than three years teaching exp...
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The research aimed to investigate characteristics of middle school students enrolled in a science gifted education center affiliated with university in terms of multiple intelligence, self-regulated learning and personality traits. The 89 subjects in the study responded to questionnaires of multiple intelligence, self-regulated learning ability and...
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The Silences of the Archives, the Reknown of the Story. The Martin Guerre affair has been told many times since Jean de Coras and Guillaume Lesueur published their stories in 1561. It is in many ways a perfect intrigue with uncanny resemblance, persuasive deception and a surprizing end when the two Martin stood face to face, memory to memory, befor...
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The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of reading framework on writing for reflection when applied to inquiry-based Science Writing Heuristic approach. This study was conducted with 67 3rd grade middle school students. Thirty-two out of 67 students were assigned to R-SWH (Reading framework-Science Writing Heuristic) group while the...
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The purpose of this study was to examine the change in the classes of beginning science teachers through the collaborative mentoring program that induce reflective thinking practice. Participants in this study were three mentor-teachers, two teachers in doctor's or master's course, one university professor, and three mentee-teachers who have less t...
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The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of Science Writing Heuristic (SWH) on multiple representations in students' writing and to survey experimental group students' recognition about the use of multiple representations. For this study, Participants of this study were 158 students in 7th grade. 94 students were assigned to the experime...
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The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of argument structure on students' writing in implementation of argument-based inquiry using the Science Writing Heuristic (SWH) approach. Participants of this study were 108 8th grade students (three classes). Two classes (68 students) were assigned to an experimental group, and the other class...
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The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of argument-based general chemistry laboratory investigations on both understanding of chemistry concepts and a summary writing activity of pre-service science teachers. Argument-based general chemistry laboratory investigations were developed for five topics using the Science Writing Heuristic (...
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The purpose of this study was to examine the relation between students' reflective thinking and providing the reading framework in implementation of argument-based inquiry using the Science Writing Heuristic (SWH) approach. Participants of this study were 60 grade students (two classes). One class (31 students) was assigned to an experimental group...
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The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of argument-based general chemistry laboratory investigations on both understanding of chemistry concepts and a summary writing activity of pre-service science teachers. Argument-based general chemistry laboratory investigations were developed for five topics using the Science Writing Heuristic (...
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Current initiatives in science education in Korea have emphasized science literacy as the most important purpose of science education; that is, science education needs to focus on helping each student to become a scientifically literate person who is able to make reasoned decisions. In attempting to address this focus concern about science literacy...
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This study investigated how a collaborative mentoring program influenced beginning science teachers' inquiry-based teaching and their reflection on practice. The one-year program consisted of five one-on-one mentoring meetings, weekly science education seminars, weekly mentoring group discussions, and self-evaluation activities. The participants we...
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The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of argumentation-based general chemistry laboratory on preservice science teachers' chemistry concepts understanding and writing. Five topics about argumentation-based general chemistry laboratory activities were developed using Science Writing Heuristic (SWH) approach. Summary Writing Test, and...
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the change of teacher-student interaction in a beginner secondary science teachers' class through collaborative mentoring program. Three experienced science teachers as mentors and three beginner science teachers as mentees were participated in this study. Mentors have been teaching science secondary sch...
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The purpose of this study was to explore how 9th grade students' understanding of the nature of science developed during a one-year implementation of NOS learning materials. The lessons were a combination of short readings in episodes in the history of science with accompaning response booklets consisting of illustrations and questions. The lessons...
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The purpose of this study was to examine Korean preservice science teachers' understanding of the nature of science (NOS). Thirty-one Korean preservice teachers were given an open-ended questionnaire about their understanding of NOS. The Korean preservice teachers' responses were categorized according to pattern and theme. These findings will provi...
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of the Science Writing Heuristic (SWH) teaching strategy on cognitive levels, science concept understanding, argumentation and writing skills. 131 students attending to co-ed middle school were selected for the study and assigned to the experimental and comparative group. The teaching strateg...
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The main objective of this study was to investigate Korean university students' understanding of the structure of the atom based on a Lakatosian view. In this study, we examined twenty-three Korean university students' understandings of atomic structure using an open-ended questionnaire. The participants were all junior students majoring in chemist...
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In this chapter, we discuss assessment in science education in a Korean context. We then identify the special characteristics of Global Science Literacy (GSL) and apply them to the role of assessment in future science education programs. In doing so, we define the concept of ‘authentic assessment’ in terms of GSL and discuss its significance in the...

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