The purpose of this study lies in examining to what degree contents and questions of science textbooks used for third grade of middle school developed under education goals of the 7th Curriculum meet the education goals, with the aim of making sure th...
The purpose of this study lies in examining to what degree contents and questions of science textbooks used for third grade of middle school developed under education goals of the 7th Curriculum meet the education goals, with the aim of making sure that contents and questions of science textbooks developed under the 7th Curriculum meet the education goals. To this end, Klopfer’s education goal classification system covering students’ experimental skills, attitude about science, and behaviors in the ‘orientation’ area relative to science, which are particularly emphasized was used to analyze behaviors to be obtained by students and assess to what degree they meet the education goals under the 7th Curriculum.
The findings from the study revealed that Physics unit of third grade of middle school under the 7th Curriculum contained knowledge and understanding (A.0) at 65% and scientific research process(B.0~E.0) at 26.3%, which shows that attitude and interest (H.0) was 0.1% and orientation (I.0) was 1,2%; that is, the goal of ‘helping students have interest in and curiosity about natural phenomenon and things’ was not effectively delivered, while meeting the goals of ‘helping students gain an understanding of knowledge system of science and learn ways of doing research’ to some degree. This implies that education goals under the 7th Curriculum have not been fully reflected in the textbooks. In addition, most questions in the textbooks are divided largely into knowledge and understanding (A.0) and application of scientific knowledge and methods (F.0), which means that the textbooks meet the 7th Curriculum education goals as well as behaviors required by the contents of the textbooks to a low degree.