초등학교 일반학생과 발명영재반 학생이 인식하는 발명에 대한 이미지

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to identify ordinary and inventively gifted children's image toward invention. In order to achieve the purpose of this study, analyze 33 adjective pairs through Semantic Differential Method as quantitative analysis and pictures which student drew after thinking about the invention as qualitative analysis. The contents of the examination were made on 228 ordinary students and 145 inventively gifted students in "K" Metropolitancity. The survey contents were composed of 33 adjective paris that were used in choi (2006)'s study. The results of this study are as follows. First, ordinary and inventively gifted children generally acknowledged invention positively. The survey showed that the total average point of students was 5.08 which is higher point than 4 point that is middle value Secondly, from the results of image analysis of 33 adjective pairs toward invention, inventively gifted children showed more positive values than ordinary students in 27 adjective pairs (the considerable level was set at 0.05, 0.01 and 0.001). In other words, the students who have invention education regularly considered invention positively. The result of analysis which was related to drawing, showed that ordinary students drew light bulbs, experimental instruments, robots, anguish, imagination and working tools in order, and inventively gifted students drew lights bulbs, imagination, anguish, working tools, robots, and experimental instruments in order. Though two groups drew light bulbs most, ordinary students drew the things that they saw in their life and inventively gifted students drew imagination, anguish which is related to the basic capabilities to produce ideas. The major findings of this study will help to make invention education of elementary school students more efficient.