| dc.description.abstract | Science Fair is an important activity in the field of science education for primary
and junior-high schools in Taiwan. Science Fair aims to raise students’ interest in science
learning and their scientific inquiry abilities. However, most of students do not have the
abilities to complete the science inquiry alone when they do not have experience of
participating Science Fair. The purpose of this study is to guide the students doing the
inquiry-based experiments before Science Fair, and to provide the system scaffolds
helping students to learn Science Process Skill instructions, the ability used in Science
Fair. Science Process Skill Instructions regards as the ability which you solve the science
problem. In the Taiwan’s essentials of the 9-Year integrated curriculum, Science Process
Skill instructions can be classified into 5 items: “observing”,” comparison and
classification”, “organization and the associated”, ”induction , analysis and inference” and
“ communicating”. Learners acquire these abilities by doing experience themselves and
from the experiment to explore in the process of for the purpose of inquiry experiments.
While assessing system, we use “purposive sampling.”. 52 elementary students are
invited to use the system and evaluated the system with a quantitative survey. Their
responses on the quantitative questionnaire of the system showed that they are satisfied
and think this system is useful and user-friendly. They expressed high willingness to use
the system continuously. Both Scientific Process Skills and Integration Process Skills
improve significantly showed in the questionnaire, but there is no significant difference
in Basic Process Skills. In additions, the average improvement score about Integration
Process Skills of the experimental group is higher than the control group, which indicates
that this system is useful in developing students’ Scientific Process Skills. In the
conclusion of this study, this study point out some suggestions on teaching practices,
improvement on the system design, and future research. | en_US |