2000년도부터 교육 현장에 적용될 제7차 교육과정의 개정은 수준별 교육과정의 편성과 운영을 주요 핵심으로 하고 있으며, 특히 과학과에서는 심화 · 보충형 수준별 교육과정이 적용될 것이다. 이에 대비하여 본 연구에서는 심화 · 보충형 수준별 수업 모형이 학업 성취도 및 과학에 관련된 태토에 미치는 영향에 대하여 조사하였다. 이를 위하여 중학교 2학년 '물의순환과 일기 변화' 단원에 대하여 심화 · 보충형 교수-학습 자료를 개발하였다. 또한 중학교 2학년의 4개반 152명을 대상으로 실험반(76명)에 대하여 심화 · 보충형 수준별 수업을, 그리고 통제반(76명)에 대하여 수준을 고려하지 않은 획일적인 수업을 각각 약 6주간 실시하여 학업 성취도 및 과학에 관련된 태도에 대한 변화를 공분산 분석으로 비교 · 분석하였다. 수업 처치 후, 실험 집단은 통제 집단에 비하여 학업 성취도에서 유의미한 향상을 보였고, 이러한 효과는 상위권 학생들보다 하위권에서 더 크게 나타났다. 한편 과학에 관련된 태도 변화에 있어서 통제 집단은 향상되었으나 실험 집단은 거의 변화가 없는 수준별 수업의 유의미한 부정적 효과를 보였다. 과학에 관련된 태도의 세 가지 영역을 분석한 결과에서 실험 집단은 '과학에 대한 태도'와 '과학적 태도' 에서 거의 변화를 보이지 않았지만, '과학 교과에 대한 태도' 에서는 유의미한 부정적 변화를 보였다. 특히, 하위 요소 중 '과학 수업에 대한 불안' 에서 수준별 수업의 부정적 효과가 컸다. 학업 성취 수준에 따른 과학에 관련된 태도에서 상위권 학생들은 '과학 교과에 대한 태도'의 하위 요소인 '과학 교수 방법에 대한 인식 ·만족' 에서 긍정적, 그리고 하위권은 '과학 수업에 대한 불안 에서 부정적 변화를 보였다. 본 연구의 수준별 수업 방법이 학생 개개인의 수준에 적합한 학습을 제공하여 학업 성취도를 증진시켰지만, 과학 관련 태도를 전반적으로 개선하지 못했다. 따라서 학생들의 흥미와관심도 고려되는 교수-학습 방법에 대한 지속적인 연구와 교과 내용의 적절한 변화가 동반된다면, 수준별 수업의 효과가 극대화될 수 있다고 본다.

The purpose of this study is to analyse the type of student's misconceptions on earth science concepts and its sources in grades 7 to 9. The test questionnaire was develpoed to investigate their misconceptions to the selected students. The following conclusions were drawn. 1) The sellected students had the various types of misconceptions on earth science concepts. 2) There were no grade differences in the patterns of the misconceptions. 3) The sources of student's misconceptions were resulted from the poor development of cognitive structures, the influences of environments, the error of information processing. 4) The misconceptions were not changed and corrected easily.

The problem of contemporary curriculum is extracted by rationale of curriculum and our last nation's curricula in the middle school. As the results, it is problems in goals and learning contents, level and quantity of contents, ratio of science region, constitution's ratio of activity and information, experiments, practical science, content of science history and science and society, uniformity of contents, integrated science. The problem is analysed to study of improvement plan for the selection and organization of contents of science in the middle school. Resulting of these analyses this study states to improve plan for curriculum of middle school in Korea.

This study investigated the effects of variations in the kinetic structure on the science knowledge acquisition and analyzed the kinetic structure of a sience classroom communication. According to the rationale of the kinetic structure theory, a communication with high structure would facilitate greater knowledge acquisition than that with low structure. To testify that hypothesis, a modified non-equivalent pretest-posttest control group design was used. Four classes(8th grade), two classes for each sex, were selected. On the topic of 'Moon and Macs', two tape-recorded lessons differing in the kinetic structure were developed. Each lessons played 14 minutes long. One of them was high structure(B￣₁ = 0.48) and the other was low structure(B￣₁ = 0.19). The results showed that the students with high structure lesson achieved greater than those with low structure lesson(F = 7.03, p $lt; .01). But when the results were analyzed by sex, only boy students' achievement showed a significant difference between low and high structure groups(F = 9.54, p $lt;.01). The results of this study suggest that a high structure communication will facilitate the science learning in the case of boy students. On the other hand, an actual classroom communication on the topic of `Moon and planets' was tape-recorded from a middle school science class(9th grade) and lasted 45 minutes long. It was analyzed by Anderson's and Kim's methods of the kinetic structure analysis. The grand mean fundamental coefficient of the whole communication was 0.20, and the grand mean weighted coefficient was 0.84. This communication showed high mean progression density(D￣s= 0.88 with (NAC)￣=1.14). Thus, in general, this verbal communication had low structure and high progression. Therefore, it can be concluded that this classroom communication will give the students some difficulties in their learning.

An implementation study was conducted by analyzing the science curricula, surveying of the classroom activities, and the contents of the current science text books. Through this investigation, it was found that exist a discrepancies between the science curricula and current text books, the contents of the text books are just listing of informations and too hard compare the level of students activities. Furthermore, the current text books were prepared under the laboratory oriented approaching methods by emphasizing the inquiring processes. However, (at present. situations) the most schools could not carry out the objects of the current text books due to lack of instruments, laboratory facilities, and laboratory work books.