키워드 네트워크 분석을 활용한 「기독교교육논총」 연구 동향 탐색

Abstract

Students’ engagement is important for meaningful learning and it has multifaceted aspects for their science learning. This study investigated elementary students’ perceptions of science learning engagement. The subjects of this study were 341 4th to 6th elementary students. The survey questionnaires were 5-Likert scale questions and free response questions on science learning engagement. The results showed that elementary students’ perceptions of behavioral engagement were higher than emotional and cognitive engagement. Keyword network analysis with NetMiner program showed that the frequent key words of science learning engagement were ‘experiment’, ‘listening’, and ‘teachers’ explanation’, which were mostly the behavioral types of engagement. The degree centrality and eigenvector centrality of these key words appeared high. ‘Interest’, which is emotional engagement, were also one of the frequent key words, but the centralities of this word were relatively low. The Frequent key words of science learning disengagement were mostly related with off-tasks, not doing expected behaviors and negative emotions about science and science learning. Educational implications on science learning engagement were discussed.