| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立花蓮師範學院 === 國小科學教育研究所 === 93 === This study intends to investigate in-service elementary teachers’ understanding about the ten competence indicators of the nature of science in science and technology learning area under the current National 1-9 Curriculum in Taiwan.
Firstly, researcher collects twenty-two documents containing themes of the nature of science from international literature, mainly the United States, and literature in Taiwan. Researcher then read through them and analyzed inductively to produce key concepts of the nature of science for elementary education. In the same time, researcher’s supervisor professor interpreted the ten competence indicators and produced detail explanation of them. Researcher then analyze interviewed teachers’ transcripts in accordance with supervisor’s interpretation. Research subjects are fifteen in-service elementary school teachers of Taoyuan County. Semi-structured interview is conducted. Teachers may express their understanding orally about the ten competence indicators one by one freely. Audio tapes are transcribed into transcripts for analysis.
The results of this study indicate that there could be twenty-two key concepts about the nature of science resulted from the collected literature, and only eleven of them are identified in the ten competence indicators. The major area which is missed in the ten competence indicators belongs to the social interaction within scientific community. Overall, in-service teachers do not understand the ten competence indicators in terms of supervisor’s interpretation. However, researcher still categorized those teachers into two groups, namely relatively understand and relatively not understand, in order to develop a reliable questionnaire of elementary teachers’ understanding of the competence indicators.
Further interpretation of the results and recommendations will be discussed in thesis.
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