A Preliminary Investigation of Narrative Structures in Two Science Popularization TV Programs

• Main Authors: Wang, Wei-Cheng, 王惟正
• Other Authors: Lee, Sung-Tao
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/91856616184780117502

碩士 === 國立臺中教育大學 === 科學教育與應用學系碩士班 === 103 === The purpose of this study is to analyze the narrative structure of specific topic within two rumor-busted style science popularization TV programs produced from different countries and to find out their differences. Additionally, their learning effects in science conceptions and the nature of science (NOS) for college students were also examined. Two TV programs, “Buzz go go go” produced in Taiwan and “MythBusters” produced in U.S. were chosen for analysis and a qualitative analysis approach was adopted to construct their narrative elements and structure. On the other hand, a quasi-experimental approach and a non-equivalent pre and post-test design is adopted to examine college students’ science learning outcomes. Sixty-two college students in central Taiwan were invited to participate in this research. An open-ended questionnaire composed of items of related science conceptions and nature of science (NOS) was constructed as the research instrument. The results indicated that the narrative structures in “Buzz go go go” shows similar patterns with science teaching approach. It also demonstrates the POE teaching framework (as predict-observe-explain) in the show and experiments are often followed by explanations. As for the “MythBusters”, its narrative structures were more focused on the reasoning part. It usually does reasoning before experiment and try to propose some reasons after predicting the results and it is considered fits more with the process of science inquiries and reflects more about the nature of science. With respect to college students’ science learning outcomes, subjects watching MythBusters” outperformed their counterparts in the post-test of related science conceptions (p<0.05), however, the change of views of NOS did not show significant differences between two groups.