Brain, Digital, & Learning

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RESEARCH ARTICLE

Analysis of High School Students’ Science Teachers Images Using Semantic Network Analysis

1Science Education Institute in Kyungpook National University 2Kyungpook National University

Correspondence to Youngshin Kim, kys5912@knu.ac.kr

Brain, Digital, & Learning. Volume 11, Number 1, 15‒26, March 2021. https://doi.org/10.31216/BDL.20210002
Received on March 8, 2021, Revised on March 10, 2021, Accepted on March 12, 2021, Published on March 31, 2021.
Copyright © 2021 Institute of Brain·AI based Education, Korea National University of Education. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

Teacher-centered classes are conducted in Korean school education, and students’ values, attitudes, and academic achievement are influenced by teachers. Therefore, it is necessary to understand what students want and what they avoid from teachers. This study aim to analyze the image of science teachers that high school students prefer/avoid according to the five class situations. To this end, 549 high school students were divided into five categories and the image of a science teacher who prefers and avoids is described in an open format. Semantic network analysis, was used for analysis. The conclusions of this study are as follows. First, students’ prefer and avoid are determined according to how the science teacher. Second, science teachers should make students feel interested in science through inquiry-oriented experiment. Third, the unilateral communication of the teacher acts as a cause for students to lose interest in science class and to avoid science class by passive participation. Science teachers need to change their type of science classes, method of present materials and science teaching methods so that science classes are preferred by students.
Keywords

Science teacher, semantic network analysis, teachers image, prefer, avoid

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