The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of science writing activities on high school students` scientific thinking ability in Life ScienceⅠ class. In order to do this, 6 teaching-learning materials dealing with science writing and an...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of science writing activities on high school students` scientific thinking ability in Life ScienceⅠ class. In order to do this, 6 teaching-learning materials dealing with science writing and an evaluation tool for scientific thinking ability were developed. And the subjects were 224 high school students of 6 classes. As a result of applying science writing activities in Life ScienceⅠ class, the students` scientific thinking ability was improved. And students` inductive/deductive/critical/creative thinking ability was improved. In addition, in the most of the evaluation criteria of scientific thinking ability, the scores of posttest were higher than those of pretest. The number of students to show higher performance levels was increased. Therefore, science writing activities have positive effect on high school students` scientific thinking ability. This study provides some implications for teaching science writing activities to develop students` scientific thinking ability.