중등 학교 학생들의 과학의 본성 개념을 측정하기 위한 도구 개발 = Developrnent of an Instrument to Assess Secondary School Students Conceptions of the Nature of Science

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The purpose of this study was to develop, field test an instrument to assess secondary school students` conceptions of the nature of science. The instrument named Philosophical Perspectives Probe(PPP) is a pool of 24 multiple-choice items that address a wide range of philosophical topics of science. The statements and the choices of this instrument were derived from an analysis of various philosophical positions. The main philosophical systems of the instrument are inductivism, falsificationism, and relativism, respectively. Major distinctions depend on the issues of the criteria of demarcation, patterns of scienctific change, epistemological status of scientific knowledge, and the scientific methods. The researchers also offer teachers a new way of assessing and interpreting their students` conceptions on a wide variety of topics related to the nature of science.