생물영역에서 고등학생의 의사결정 문제에 대한 관심도 조사 = The Survey of High School Students' Concern Levels on Decision - making Problems based on Biology

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The purpose of this study was to survey the high school students` concern levels on decision-making problems based on biology. This study is a exploratory research to develop teaching strategies and curriculum of the common science for the enhancement of the students` decision-making ability in problems involved biological knowledges. The survey subjects were 101 first graders of the high school in Seoul area. The survey instrument developed was 5-point scale of Likert type consisted of 24 question items. The survey results showed that the concern level on selection of method for learning was the highest. The concern levels on selection of method for sports or diet which are the individual faced problems were high, and concern levels on the problems social issued such as decisions about standard for noise, pros and cons of approval for brain death or artificial abortion were high, too. The students` concern levels on problems individual context were significantly higher than concern levels on problems social context (p<0.01). The males` concern levels were higher than females` on `AIDS`, `incinerator for rubbish`, `atomic power plant`, `protection policy for decreasing species`, `standard for noise` (p<0.05). And the males` concern levels were higher than females` on domain of `ecosystem and environment pollution`. But the females had higher concern levels than males on `diet` and `surrogate mother` (p<0.05). The analyzed results were discussed in respects of implication for teaching strategies and curriculum.