歷屆國際化學奧林匹亞競賽(IChO)之Catalyzer的內容分析研究
Abstract
本研究旨在分析最近十年(1995-2004)之27th-36th國際化學奧林匹亞競賽(IChO)所發行之會刊Catalyzer(催化劑)的內容。研究目的為：一、將內容區分為：(一)科學文章、(二)官方文章、(三)行程表、(四)史地文化、(五)國際交流、(六)參訪活動、(七)小品文章、(八)其他。統計分析各分類項目的篇幅，以及其百分比，以作為編輯之參考。二、翻譯整理並評析歷屆Catalyzer的科學文章內容，以作為擬定與訓練未來化學家的化學課程與教材教學的指標。
研究結果發現：一、歷屆Catalyzer的編輯方式可區分為先前準備資料為主，或是現場收集資料為主，或是介於中間持平的三大類。中國(27th)、俄羅斯(28th)、加拿大(29th)、荷蘭(34th)的編輯策略約介於中間持平；澳大利亞(30th)、泰國(31st)、德國(36th)的文章傾向於現場機動地採訪與收集資料；丹麥(32nd)、印度(33rd)、希臘(35th)則是以事先準備的書面資料居多。二、科學文章的比例多寡差異甚大，多至三分之一，少則可沒有科學文章。並因此推論科學文章的多寡與編輯方式有關聯性。三、科學文章的內容，可以區分為科學家簡介、科學發展史、尖端科學研究以及工業發展等領域，早期的Catalyzer多為科學教育、科學史等文章；近期則增加當代的科學研究介紹，以及該國工業發展的文章。
This research is to analyze the content of “Catalyzer” which was published in the past ten years, 27th(1995)-36th(2004) International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO). There are two research purposes to be achieved. First: to analyze the distribution of content of “Catalyzer” in eight categorizes (1.Scientific article, 2.official document, 3.daily schedule, 4.Geography History and Culture, 5.International Exchange, 6.Sight seeing and visiting, 7.Essary, 8.others ) and estimate the percentage of each category. Secondly, the major effort in this research is concentrate on the translation the major category of all “scientific articles” in the Catalyzer into Chinese, and analyze their content. These works can be used as the reference for editors who will edit the “Catalyzer” between 37th IChO and the teaching standard curriculum or materials. The findings in this research are as follows: I. The editorial styles of “Catalyzer” can be categorized by the 3 different ways of treating information of the Journal: (1) collecting data before IChO, or (2) collecting data dynamically, or (3)the balance between them. China(27th), Russia(28th), Canada(29th), Dutch(34th) belong to category (3). Australia(30th), Thailand(31st), German(36th) are dynamically in category (2); Denmark(32nd), India(33rd), Greece(35th) are in category (1). II. The percentage of scientific articles is very different, from 0% to one-third of the total content; and so guesses that the numbers of scientific articles will be related to the methods of editorial “Catalyzer”. III. The contents of scientific articles can be classified into many fields: the introduction of scientists, the history of scientific developing, latest scientific research and the developing of industries. The scientific articles which comes from “Early Catalyzer” was always focused on Science Education, and Histories of Science development. But those in “Recently Catalyzer”, there came the addition of some introduction articles of Modern Scientific Research, and the developments of industries in the host country. The contents of scientific materials can be used as the standard for training the future scientists.
This research is to analyze the content of “Catalyzer” which was published in the past ten years, 27th(1995)-36th(2004) International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO). There are two research purposes to be achieved. First: to analyze the distribution of content of “Catalyzer” in eight categorizes (1.Scientific article, 2.official document, 3.daily schedule, 4.Geography History and Culture, 5.International Exchange, 6.Sight seeing and visiting, 7.Essary, 8.others ) and estimate the percentage of each category. Secondly, the major effort in this research is concentrate on the translation the major category of all “scientific articles” in the Catalyzer into Chinese, and analyze their content. These works can be used as the reference for editors who will edit the “Catalyzer” between 37th IChO and the teaching standard curriculum or materials. The findings in this research are as follows: I. The editorial styles of “Catalyzer” can be categorized by the 3 different ways of treating information of the Journal: (1) collecting data before IChO, or (2) collecting data dynamically, or (3)the balance between them. China(27th), Russia(28th), Canada(29th), Dutch(34th) belong to category (3). Australia(30th), Thailand(31st), German(36th) are dynamically in category (2); Denmark(32nd), India(33rd), Greece(35th) are in category (1). II. The percentage of scientific articles is very different, from 0% to one-third of the total content; and so guesses that the numbers of scientific articles will be related to the methods of editorial “Catalyzer”. III. The contents of scientific articles can be classified into many fields: the introduction of scientists, the history of scientific developing, latest scientific research and the developing of industries. The scientific articles which comes from “Early Catalyzer” was always focused on Science Education, and Histories of Science development. But those in “Recently Catalyzer”, there came the addition of some introduction articles of Modern Scientific Research, and the developments of industries in the host country. The contents of scientific materials can be used as the standard for training the future scientists.
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國際化學奧林匹亞競賽, 催化劑快報, 科學文章, International Chemistry Olympiad, Catalyzer, Scientific article