중학교 과학 교과의 생물 영역에 대한 과학교사와 고등학생의 인식과 이해도

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate recognition of Biology subject from middle school teachers and highschool students in order to find how much they understand about 2009 new version of biology curriculum. The questions of this study are below; 1. especially to people who teach the biology in middle school at the moment and freshman of high school students, how do they recognition about secondary biology? 2. to freshman of high school students, how much do they understand about concepts on secondary biology? 3. to freshman of high school students, is there any relationship between recognition of biology and understanding of secondary biology?

The participants are 54 of middle school teachers who live in Chonnam area, and also 127 of female high school students who have been studying in Chonnam Gang-Jin. The questionnaire is made up with some question; which chapter is the most interesting? Which chapter is the most difficult chapter to teach and any suggestion for change? The survey is made up with 20 questions that accord closely with 2009 new version of biology curriculum and the questions based on national achievement test level questions. The analysis of questionnaire progressed 2 part; Biology majored teacher and non-biology majored teacher and then compared teachers and student’s recognition of biology. On the exam, every question classified with biology chapter and asked to students the reason why they thought that were answer and if they were not sure then the reason why. After that, figured out the percentage of student’s right answer and unsure biology part to them. Also analyzed percentage of right answer per chapter and unsure part and then calculated the number of student per score. After that compared that with aim of 2009 new version curriculum of biology and figured out of achievement. Lastly, analyzed relation of student’s cognition with percentage of the right answer per every chapter.

The result shows that the most interesting but most difficult chapter to learn is ‘genetics’ to teachers and students. Moreover the achievement of genetics is very low as well. About 50.3% of Students choose over 2 chapters for most difficult one and among them, 35.3% of student choose every chapter. They felt difficulty not only genetics but also whole biology subject. The average percentage of right answer for whole chapter was 38.8% and this was way too low. Students unsure the concept of biology and pre-study shows the same result. They could not understand biology for the big picture. That means, the achievement of 7thteaching curriculum change is very low. This study suggests the effective solution for 2009curriculum of biology to teach; for example use visible and touchable things to learning for students who could not understand biology easily. More over teacher training program will be very useful for non-biology majored teacher to understand exact concept of biology.