This study analized the connection with the content of the physics of the science textbooks of the middle schools and common science textbooks of the high schools, centered on the main revised important content of the 7th education course of the scien...
This study analized the connection with the content of the physics of the science textbooks of the middle schools and common science textbooks of the high schools, centered on the main revised important content of the 7th education course of the science course. This aims to provide the materials to constitute the curricular content required in fostering the scientific attitude of the students by preparing new framework possessing proper connection through the result of study, and to assist teachers in their presenting measures for the efficient scientific instruction.
If we look at 3 types of the content connection by textbooks analyzed, although there are some diviations for each middle and high school science textbook, since most of the contents are similar to the contents studied in all stages or contain the level of the developed and comprehensible contents, we can find that the connection with the contents are achieved well. For the analysis of the connection among academic years by subjects, 7 large subjects were subdivided into 18 small items.
If we show A type, whose concept is introduced newly, in the percentage by stages, it tuned out that 10 items showed at the first year of the middle school(56%), 7 items at the 2nd year of the middle school(33%), and 2 items at the 3rd year of the middle school(11%), and that there was not any introduction of the new concept for the common science.
If we look at the result of the connection by types according to stages among each academic year, the science at the stages of 1st year and 2nd year of the middle schools showed 25% for the B type, introduction of new concept showed 75%, and at the stages of 2nd and 3rd years of the middle schools, B type showed 25%, C type 12.5% and introduction of new concept 25%.
For the connection with the common science of the high schools at the 3rd year of the middle schools, B type showed 25%, C type 45.4%, and D type 18.2%, and it turned out that there was not any introduction of the new concept.
For the analysis of the research elements of the experimental contents of 11 1st year of the middle school, 16 2nd year of the middle school, 18 3rd year of the middle school and 18 common science of the high school, it showed that the basic research element decreased considerably to (60%)→(41.8%)→(40%)-(40.9%), and that the integrated research element increased to (40%)→(58.2%)-(60%)→(59.1%), as the academic year went up. Also, at the connection of the experiments among academic years, several experiments showed the pattern of being similar to one another or of having developed. Through the study above, it is required for us to promote the scientific attitude and thinking faculty through diverse research activities for the students who study the course from middle school science to common science of high school , and to increase the research course element and function fitting the level of the cognition development of each academic year.