Effect of SSI (Socioscientific Issues) Lesson on Pre-service Science Teachers' 21st Century Skills

February 28, 2023  |  Vol.9, No.2  |  PP. 365-377  | PDF

AUTHORS:

Kyunghee Kang, Science Education Department, Jeju National University, South Korea

KEYWORDS:

Socioscientific Issues, The 21st Century Skills, Pre-service Science Teacher, Critical Thinking, Communication Ability

Abstract

This study was to conduct a socioscientific issues(SSI) lesson for pre-service science teachers, and to examine the effect of this lesson on pre-service science teachers' 21st century skills. To this end, SSI lessons were conducted over 7 sessions for 91 pre-service science teachers. The SSI lessons consisted of the concept of SSI and the contents of presenting SSI situations in various fields. Also, lectures were given on the relationship between scientific literacy and core science competencies and SSI education. The pre-service science teacher's data research activity on the SSI topic was conducted twice, and argumentation writings were conducted using the researched data. A pre-post tests of the 21st century skills of pre-service science teachers were conducted and a paired sample t-test was performed. As a result of the analysis, the post-test results showed that the 21st century skills of pre-service science teachers was statistically significantly higher. In addition, as a result of the t-test for the sub-domains of 21st century skills, the pre-test result was higher in the collaboration ability, but the information technology and media use ability, critical thinking and problem-solving ability, and communication ability showed significant improvement in the post-test. This result suggested that the SSI lessons had a positive effect on the improvement of the 21st century skills of pre-service science teachers. Therefore, a follow-up discussion is needed to utilize SSI lesson in the teacher education curriculum.

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Citations:

APA:
Kang, K. (2023). Effect of SSI (Socioscientific Issues) Lesson on Pre-service Science Teachers' 21st Century Skills. Asia-pacific Journal of Convergent Research Interchange (APJCRI), ISSN: 2508-9080 (Print); 2671-5325 (Online), KCTRS, 9(2), 365-377. doi: 10.47116/apjcri.2023.02.30

MLA:
Kang, Kyunghee, et al. “Effect of SSI (Socioscientific Issues) Lesson on Pre-service Science Teachers' 21st Century Skills.” Asia-pacific Journal of Convergent Research Interchange, ISSN: 2508-9080 (Print); 2671-5325 (Online), KCTRS, vol. 9, no. 2, 2023, pp. 365-377. APJCRI, http://fucos.or.kr/journal/APJCRI/Articles/v9n2/30.html.

IEEE:
[1] K. Kang, “Effect of SSI (Socioscientific Issues) Lesson on Pre-service Science Teachers' 21st Century Skills.” Asia-pacific Journal of Convergent Research Interchange (APJCRI), ISSN: 2508-9080 (Print); 2671-5325 (Online), KCTRS, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 365-377, February 2023.

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