TY - JOUR
T1 - Exploration of Middle School Students' Ideas of Fine Dust Issues Using Issue Concept Maps
AU - Kim, Gahyoung
AU - Mun, Kongju
AU - Lee, Hyunju
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© KIM, MUN AND LEE, 2020.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - This study introduces issue concept maps (IC map) as an instructional tool for exploring students' idea about socio-scientific issues (SSI). By visualizing students' ideas in two dimensions, context and occurrence, IC maps represent what kinds of ideas students have on the issues, and how their ideas change and connect. In the study, we implemented a SSI program on fine dust for 77 seventh graders and used IC maps to investigate how their ideas changed after the program. Students collaboratively constructed IC maps in groups before and after the program. Results show that the number of ideas written on IC maps significantly increased after the program from 92 to 254 ideas, indicating that the program contributed to enhancing students' awareness about the issues in terms of its causes, effects, and countermeasures at various context levels. Students also presented a greater variety of types of connections among their ideas after the program.
AB - This study introduces issue concept maps (IC map) as an instructional tool for exploring students' idea about socio-scientific issues (SSI). By visualizing students' ideas in two dimensions, context and occurrence, IC maps represent what kinds of ideas students have on the issues, and how their ideas change and connect. In the study, we implemented a SSI program on fine dust for 77 seventh graders and used IC maps to investigate how their ideas changed after the program. Students collaboratively constructed IC maps in groups before and after the program. Results show that the number of ideas written on IC maps significantly increased after the program from 92 to 254 ideas, indicating that the program contributed to enhancing students' awareness about the issues in terms of its causes, effects, and countermeasures at various context levels. Students also presented a greater variety of types of connections among their ideas after the program.
KW - changes of student ideas
KW - fine dust
KW - issue concept map
KW - socioscientific issues
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85120044173&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1163/23641177-bja10014
DO - 10.1163/23641177-bja10014
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85120044173
SN - 2364-1177
VL - 6
SP - 564
EP - 583
JO - Asia-Pacific Science Education
JF - Asia-Pacific Science Education
IS - 2
ER -