英文摘要 |
Since the implementation of the 12-Year Basic Education Curricula in 2019, the ''Inquiry and Practice''curriculum has been listed as a required science course stipulated by the Ministry of Education in Taiwan. One of the important goals of this course is to develop students' scientific literacy. Given that this course provides students with hands-on experience of producing practical works, up to 595 departments in tertiary education have announced that the learning outcomes of this course will be taken as a reference in students' academic portfolios used for their future applications to universities. Based upon the ''Inquiry and Practice''curriculum designed in terms of the spirit of project-based inquiry, this study compared the students' performance of their scientific literacy tests taken before and after the course. It also analyzed the students' performance at their practical works in this course. The result of this study revealed the performances of students' literacy assessment in posttests were statistically significant to those in pretests. With regards to the performance of students' practical works, one of the eight groups did not finish their work while the remaining seven groups could complete their inquiry and draw conclusions. The result also showed that students performed better in ''raising questions relevant to scientific inquiry''and ''coming up with a design corresponding to research questions.''There was room for improvement in ''the abilities to analyze data''and ''the skills to design and use charts.'' |