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The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of small group inquiry skills on improving science process skills and attitudes toward science in elementary school science.
The research questions of this study were as follows.
First, effects of small group inquiry skills on improving science process skills in elementary school science.
Second, effects of small group inquiry skills on improving attitudes toward science in elementary school science. The subjects of this study is two classes from 6th grade elementary classes in Busan. The experiment class practiced small group inquiry skills, while the control class practiced self inquiry. To verify the effect of the experiment, ANOVA was conducted.
The main findings of this study are as follows.
First, the small group inquiry skills gave a significant influence on increasing the science process skills, including the basic science process skills and the integrated science process skills, of students. Especially, among subordinate factors of science process skills between groups, it was effective to increase abilities of observing, reasoning, interpreting data, formulating hypothesis.
It is necessary for teachers to make an effort to teach according to steps of the small group inquiry skills and to support inquiry activities, in order to increasing the science process skills. However, frequency of additional lessons have a little influence on increasing the science process skills.
Second, there is meaningful change in the attitudes toward science for those who studied the small group inquiry skills.
Also, they affected subordinate factors of the attitudes toward science, like the attitudes toward science inquiry, the happiness about science class.
This study shows that the small group inquiry skills give a positive influence on the science process skills and attitudes toward science in elementary school science.