Analysis of the Questioning Styles in the Students' Chemistry text Materials of Education Centers for the Scientifically Gifted Students

Abstract

The aim of this study is to analyze the questioning styles in the students' text materials of gifted education programs for the scientifically gifted students based on chemistry in terms of frequency and type of questions. It is also to diagnose the kind of scientific processes elicited by the questions. The texts of the program of Science-gifted Education Center in five selected universities and Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education, and the program released from Korea Educational Development Institute were listed and weighed by the Textbook Questioning Strategies Assessment Instrument(TQSAI). The results found that the 과학영재교육원 학생용 화학교재에 제시된 질문 유형 분석 15 average total number of questions was 1216 in the text and the average number of questions per topic was only 10.7. Noticeably, the most used type of the question in the text was the information question (45.8%), while the most weighed characteristics of the question was reasoning (28.8%). Hopefully, this research may contribute to improve text materials in the gifted education programs.