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Títol: An Analysis of the Actual Processes of Physicists´ Research and the Implications for Teaching Scientific Inquiry in School
Autor: Park J (Park Jongwon)1 Jang KA (Jang Kyoung-Ae)2 Kim I (Kim Ikgyun)3
Referència: RESEARCH IN SCIENCE EDUCATION
Volum: 39 issue:1
Pàgines: 111-129
Any: 2009
Codi ISBN/ISSN: 0157-244X
Tipus de document: Article
Paraules clau: Science park, Physicists´ research; Scientific inquiry; Inquiry process skills; Research motivation; Research results
Idioma: Anglès
Resum: Investigation of scientists´ actual processes of conducting research can provide us with more realistic aspects of scientific inquiry. This study was performed to identify three aspects of scientists´ actual research: their motivations for scientific inquiry, the scientific inquiry skills they used, and the main types of results obtained from their research. To do this, we interviewed six prominent physicists about why and how they researched and what they obtained from their research results. We also analyzed their published papers. In the previous part of this study, types and features of the physicists´ research motivations were identified (Park and Jang, Journal of the Korean Physical Society, 47(3), 401-408, 2005). In this article, as the second part of the study, it was found: (1) Various inquiry skills including theoretical as well as experimental research skills and the social skills of scientific inquiry were used in physicists´ research. (2) New inventions, articulation of, and falsification of the previous findings were regarded as important research results. (3) Physicists´ research processes were often non-linear and cyclical. For each of these findings, implications for teaching scientific inquiry in schools were developed. Finally, we proposed a model of scientific inquiry process consisting of research motives, scientific inquiry skills, and results of inquiry.
Adreça: Chonnam Natl Univ, Dept Phys Educ, Kwangju 500757, South Korea 2. Donga Sci, Seoul 120715, South Korea 3. Chungbuk Natl Univ, Dept Sci Educ, Chungbuk 361763, South Korea E-mail Addresses: jwpark94@chonnam.ac.kr, jka6807@hanmail.net, igsci@chungbuk.ac.kr