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Abstract
This research was an attempt to investigate the understanding of the
nature of scientific process skill owned by 412 preservice elementary
teachers from National Pintung Teachers College and National Tainan
Teachers College and 976 inservice elementary teachers from different
schools located in Kaohsiung and Pingtung area.
The "Questionnaire of the Nature of Scientific Process Skill(QNSPK)",
Adapted from Wisconsin Inventory Science Process (WISP,1967) and Science
Process Inventory (SPI,1967),were developed and administered.
The results from QNSPK were statistically analyzed with Statistical
Package for the Social Science (SPSS).The major findings include:
1.The preservice elemenyary teachers understand the nature of
scientific process skill on observing,measuring,classifying,experimenting,
communication a little, but they do not understand the nature of scientific
process skill on predicting and hypothesizing.
2.The inservice elementary teachers understand the nature of scientific
process skill on measuring,communication and observing, and they also
understand the nature of scientific process skill on classifying,experimenting
and hypothesizing a little;yet,they do not understand the nature of scientific
process skill on predicting.
3.The inservice teachers were far better than the preservice teachers in
understanding the nature of scientific process skill on observing,measuring,
communication and hypothesizing. The inservice teachers and the preservice
teachers understand the nature of scientific process skill on classifying
and experimenting a little, and they all do not understand the nature of
predicting in terms of scientific process skill.
4.The above findings are offered as reference for elementary teachers
as their prior knowledge . Also ,they can be used as a guide for inservice
teachers'' training and scientific educational course design.
Keywords: science education . the nature of science. the nature of
scientific process skill. preservice teacher. inservice teacher.
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