APPLICATION OF INQUIRY-BASED SCIENCE ASSESSMENT QUESTIONS FOR KOREAN ELEMENTARY STUDENTS
Young Tae Kong
Pages: 1207-1219
Published: 27 Nov 2014
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Abstract: [RETRACTED] This study aims to incorporate inquiry-based assessment questions in science assessment and analyzes students’ responses in purpose of evaluating scientific inquiry abilities of fifth and sixth grade students in Korea. In this study, we mainly report the result about matter (chemistry) content domain among assessment questions. The results were as follows. First, scientific inquiry abilities of fifth and sixth graders in Korea elementary school are lower than that of their general school’s assessment. Second, students’ preconception and misconceptions in matter content domain were obtained through the development and application of inquiry-based assessment questions, and teaching approaches for increasing students’ inquiry skills were also obtained.
Keywords: inquiry based assessment, elementary student, inquiry ability, korea, matter domain
This article has been retracted at the request of the author.
After publication, the author informed the Publisher that the article included work derived from a graduate student’s thesis research. Under institutional research ethics regulations, the graduate student should have been listed as a co-author. Because the authorship record cannot be corrected post-publication in a way that meets those requirements, the author requested retraction of the article.
There is no evidence of data fabrication, plagiarism, or duplicate publication associated with this article. The retraction is issued solely to correct the authorship record and to comply with research ethics requirements.
Retraction Date: 13 September 2016
Cite this article: Young Tae Kong. APPLICATION OF INQUIRY-BASED SCIENCE ASSESSMENT QUESTIONS FOR KOREAN ELEMENTARY STUDENTS. Journal of International Scientific Publications: Educational Alternatives 12, 1207-1219 (2014). https://www.scientific-publications.net/en/article/1000626/
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