| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立屏東師範學院 === 初等教育學系 === 83 === This research aimed to investigate the understanding of the nature of scientific knowledge held by 399 preservice elementary teachers and 294 inservice elementary teachers at the National Pingtung Teachers College in Taiwan.
The "Questionnaire of the Nature of Scientific Knowledge (QNSK) " were developed and used, based on definition of National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP,1989). The result from QNSK were statistically
processed with Statistical Analysis System (SAS), the following conclusions were drawn:
1.The elementary preservice teachers attended understanding the nature of scientific knowledge. There were significant differences of the nature of replicable between the male and female preservice teachers. Preservice teachers of the forth grade get far better grades than the third grade
about the nature of tentative of scientfic knowledge.
2.The inservice elementary teachers were less understanding the nature of tentative and replicable of scientific knowledge. In addition, the male inservice teachers get far better grades than the female about the nature of cumulative of scientific knowledge.
3.The preservice teachers were more better than the inservice teachers on the dimension of tentative and replicable. Otherwise, the inservice teachers were more better than the preservice teachers on the dimension of
public and empirical.
4.The findings can serve as reference of elementary teachers'' prior knowledge. Also they can be direction to inservice teachers'' training and scientific educational course design.
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