Developing an online enviromental education program on nuclear energy to facilitate students’ learning of a socio-scientific issue

• Main Author: 蔡姿婷
• Other Authors: 張欣怡
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/16996248483596922071

碩士 === 國立高雄師範大學 === 科學教育暨環境教育研究所 === 103 === This study revised an online program ‘Nuclear Energy and Environmental Education” in the Web-based Inquiry Science Environment (WISE). The study followed the standards of environmental education capacity indicator in Grades 1-9 curriculum to design web courses with the theme of nuclear energy and environmental education. Sixty-three seventh-graders at a senior high school in Kaohsiung participated this study. The students’ knowledge of nuclear power plant development, attitude towards nuclear power plant development, and their performances of socio scientific reasoning were measured through the pre- and post-tests or embedded assessments. The developed program engaged the stuents in viewing videos, discussing fictitious and real nuclear issues, comparing different energy resources, and voting for the development of the 4th nuclear power plant through the affordance of the internet. The data included pre- and post-course paper-based tests, to enable the understanding of students’ attitude and knowledge towards nuclear energy, and embedded assessments within courses, to understand the students’ performances of socio scientific reasoning. The findings of this study are as follows: 1. The students gained nuclear knowledge after learning using the web-based nuclear environmental education program. However, some misconceptions still persist. 2. The students tended to be neutral or oppose to the development of the nu-clear power plant and their attitude did not change, while their attitude to-wards the handling of nuclear waste was becoming more positive after their learning with the program. 3. The students’ performances of the socio scientific reasoning were better when they discussed the fictitious SSI than the actual SSI.