• Journal of the Korean earth science society
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• v.40 no.1
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• pp.68-85
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• 2019

The purpose of this study was to understand science teaching experiences of elementary school teachers who taught the system thinking-based science inquiry class. The phenomenological methods were applied to analyze four elementary teachers' meaningful experiences. The four step methods of phenomenological experience research proposed by Giorgi (1985) and interview questions developed by Seidman (1998) and Schuman (1982) were used in order to collect qualitative data. The major findings of this study were as follows: First, teachers intentionally tried to ask divergent thinking questions which promoted the system thinking in classes. The teachers used divergent thinking questions to promote their students' thinking activities and to induce students' system thinking. In addition, the receptive mood created by teachers and interactive environments had a positive effect on promoting system thinking skills. Second, teachers remarked lack of teaching and learning materials and difficulties in selecting themes of their classes in order to teach the system thinking-based science inquiry class effectively. In addition, it was very difficult for teachers to evaluate the contents and processes of students' learning correctly because there were little evaluative tools and methods readily available. The findings indicated that there were some limitations in maximizing the effects of system thinking-based science inquiry instruction due to elementary students' inappropriate process skills of inquiry activities. Findings of this study revealed significant insights about elementary school teachers' experiences regarding the system thinking-based science class.

• Journal of Elementary Mathematics Education in Korea
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.1-25
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• 2008

The purpose of this study was to identify pre-service teachers' Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) about decimal calculation. A written questionnaire was developed dealing with decimal calculation. A total of 152 pre-service teachers from 3 universities were selected for this study; they had taken an elementary mathematics teaching method course and had no teaching experience. The results were as follows: First, with regard to the method of decimal calculation, most pre-service teachers were familiar with algorithms introduced in the textbook. But with regard to the meaning of decimal calculations, they had difficulties in understanding decimal multiplication or decimal division with decimal number. Second, pre-service teachers recognized reasons of errors as well as errors patterns that student might make. But this recognition was limited mainly to errors related to natural number calculation. Third, pre-service teachers frequently commented about decimals algorithms, picture models, the meanings of decimal calculations, and connections to natural number calculations. Many of them represented the meanings of decimal calculations through picture models as to help students' understanding, while they just mentioned algorithms or treated decimal calculation as natural number calculations with decimal point.

• Journal for History of Mathematics
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.157-166
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• 2008

Mathematical communication is an important goal of recent educational reform. The NCTM's Principle and Standards for School Mathematics, consulting an emphasis on mathematical discourse from 1991 Professional Standards for Teaching Mathematics, has a Communication Standard at each grade level. This paper examines Socrates's educational philosophy and the mathematical dialogue in Plato's. Further it examines mathematical dialogues between teachers and students from antiquity through the nineteenth century.

• Journal of Korean Home Economics Education Association
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• v.35 no.3
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• pp.135-149
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• 2023

The purpose of this study is to develop and implement an integrated course model that centers around the subject of Home Economics Education Curriculum and Teaching Methods and its pedagogical approaches, as well as the subject of Chinese Language and Literature Curriculum and Teaching Methods and its pedagogical methods. This study aims to provide a framework to prepare pre-service teachers to effectively address a variety of educational issues in future educational settings. To achieve these objectives, the study utilizes Fogarty's connected model as a guiding framework to explore the impact of the integrated curriculum on fostering collaborative and divergent thinking among students. The findings of this research confirm that this model not only cultivates interdisciplinary competencies among course participants but also goes beyond the mere transmission of knowledge to build the capacities needed for forming an educational community, thereby increasing course satisfaction. Additionally, the study substantiates the importance of learner-centered strategies, cooperative learning, and diverse evaluation mechanisms. Such an integrated course model has the potential to revolutionize not only pre-service teacher education but also to be applicable in in-service teacher training, thus contributing to solving a broader range of educational issues.

• Journal of Korean Home Economics Education Association
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.45-62
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• 2008

The purpose of this study was to investigate middle school home economics(HE) teachers' perception and needs on self supervision related to HE subject matter, Using the methods of survey and interview, 177 samples were collected. For collected surveys, mean value, standard deviation, frequency, percentage analysis were performed by using an SPSS/Win (ver10.1) program. The results of this study were as follows. First, the middle school HE teachers recognized that self supervision related to HE subject matter was absolutely needed to expand the improvement of techniques for teaching instructions and the width of knowledge on the studies on textbook. Second, the middle school HE teachers recognized the necessary parts of self supervision related to HE subject matter as HE teaching-learning methods, the studies on textbook contents, and HE education philosophy in order. Third, the middle school HE teachers recognized that it would be helpful in improving their HE class and expertise in order of field survey, participation in various training programs, utilization of mass media, participation in societies for researches and meetings and information sharing with co-teachers among the types of self supervision. Fourth, the middle school HE teachers needed the reduction in miscellaneous duties, less pressure for time, restoration of teachers' desire, support of physical resources (improvement of various environments such as classrooms and special rooms), economic support and various support programs (expanding the opportunities to participate in training and society and establishment of a database for relevant materials, etc.) to facilitate self supervision. As such, the middle school HE teachers' overall recognition on HE-related self supervision became significantly higher. To enhance the HE-related expertise, however, it would be necessary to conduct concrete and active support for HE education, philosophical area and the studies on textbook contents as well as the teaching-learning methods for HE in which teachers' demand was high. In addition, the HE teachers wanted to have an easy and quick access to various HE-related data; therefore, it would be urgent to summarize scattered relevant data and support the HE teachers more systematically.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.61-70
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• 2018

It is urgent in the context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution that students become creative and integrative thinkers. In this vein, in the last few years, drawing upon constructivism as an innovative learning paradigm, new coding curricula using MIT's Scratch have been introduced in the number of countries to enhance computational thinking (CT). However, constructivism encouraging collaborative and active learning may not be explicitly utilized in instructional design focusing mainly on learning to code as technical skills - some of which exist today in large numbers of school and after-school code activities. To respond to such a misleading way of developing CT through coding, the present study aims to propose the benefits of CT self-assessment rubrics for primary pre-service teachers within a CT course entitled "Problem Solving by Computational Thinking". Our findings show how meaningful collaborative CT self-assessment in a group impacts their learning of CT. We end this paper with the discussion of implications of our findings for CT assessment towards a new paradigm in education.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.73-83
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• 1990

이 연구의 목적은 (가)학생들의 "공기중의 물"에 대한 직관척 견해와 그 특성들을 파악하여 기술하고, (나) 나이와 학습 능력의 증가에 따른 직관적 견해의 분포 및 변화 경향의 파악 및 기술(description)에 있다. 미국 텍사스주 중부에서 36명의 연구대상 학생들이 선발되었다(5-, 8-, 11-학년 및 대학교 학생 각각 9명씩). 대학생들을 제외한 각 학년은 3명 씩의 우수, 보통 및 열퉁 학생들로 구성되었다. 연구 방법은 현상에 대한 면담법(Interview-About-Phenomena)이 사용되었다. 대기 중의 물은 7개의 종속개념(수증기, 습도, 증발, 웅결, 승화 I 과 II, 그리고 이슬점)으로 세분되어 조사되었다. 연구 결과 각 종속개념마다 3개에서 7개까지 여러 직관적 견해들이 파악되었다. 학년과 학습능력이 증가 할수록 학생들은 더 정교한 직관적 견해를 보유하고 있었다. 파악된 직관적 견해들의 재구성(restructuring) 또는 보다 정교한(more sophisticated) 견해로의 변화는 종속개념에 따라 다르다. 직관적 견해들이 재구성되기 쉬움에 따라 종속개념들을 배열한 것올 "재구성 계열"(Restructuring series)이라 정의 하였으며 이는 다음과 같다. 수증기-습도-이슬점-응결-중발-승화 I 과 II. 이 연구의 결과는 과학교수 전략 및 과학 학습교재의 고안과 개발, 과학교사 양성과정, 그리고 과학학습 평가 등에 활용되어져야 할 것이다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.6-7
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 지역적 학습 방법을 활용하는 Average Neighborhood Margin Maximization(ANMM)에 기반하여 피부색과 비피부색 영역을 분리하는 이진 분류의 통계적 접근법을 제안한다. Fisher Linear Discriminant(FLD)와 Average Neighborhood Margin Maximization(ANMM)의 피부색과 비피부색 클래스 내 분산 대비 클래스 간 분산의 비교를 통해 두 클래스 간 분리력 변화를 확인한다. 교사(Supervised) 이진 분류문제에 대하여 Small sample size(SSS) 문제, 가우시안 분포 가정의 문제, 최대 추출 가능 특징 수 제한 문제 등을 해결함과 동시에, 지역적 특성 학습 방법의 도입을 통해 피부색과 비피부색 간 분리력을 향상시킨다.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.16
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• pp.109-122
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• 2003

현재 초, 중, 고등학교의 수학교육 현실은 수학 개념의 정확한 이해에 초점을 맞추지 못하고 공식의 암기와 그것을 이용하여 단순한 문제 풀이에 시간을 많이 할애함으로써 수학의 기본적인 개념이나 기호의 정확한 사용법을 인지하지 못하고 계산 기능적인 면으로 치우치는 경향이 많이 나타나며, 문제 풀이의 창의적인 상황이 제시되지 않는 상태에서 교사 중심의 문제풀이 방법에만 의존하고 있다. 이러한 문제점 속에서 창의적인 문제 해결 방안을 구상할 수 있는 사고력의 배양에 소홀함이 있다고 볼 수 있다. 따라서 학생 스스로 의미를 파악하여 학습 할 수 있는 교수 방법이나 학습 방법에 대한 연구는 현실적으로 매우 시급한 상황에 처해있다. 이러한 상황에서 많은 수학교육자들은 학생들이 좀 더 쉽게 수학의 개념에 접근 할 수 있게 하기 위하여 많은 노력을 하고 있다. 그러한 노력 중의 하나로 테크놀러지를 이용한 수학교육을 말 할 수 있는데, 이는 실제로 수학교육에 긍정적인 영향을 준다고 알려져 있다. 본 논문은 현 고등학교 수학I의 등차수열에 관한 내용을 Mathematica를 이용하여 다각수(도형수)로부터 등차수열의 개념을 유도하였다.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.33 no.5
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• pp.911-931
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• 2013

The purpose of this study was to analyze pre-service teachers' reflective discussion on their practical work-based teaching by focusing on the components of instruction and the connectivity of discussion. Eight after-class discussions were recorded and transcribed, and finally analyzed in terms of theoretically driven categories such as aims, teacher knowledge and learner response which also respectively reflect the actual flow of planning, implementation and evaluation of the teaching practice. The result showed that in their discussion about students, conceptual understanding and scientific skill components were most emphasized, while teaching method and strategy were most frequently addressed in the discussion about teacher knowledge. But this also revealed problems in their discussions such as the lack of discussion about inquiry and student interest, difficulties in clarifying theoretical terms and the lack of discussion about instructional models and theories. Meanwhile, pre-service teachers' discussions were limited in terms of connectivity between the components of instruction, meaning that their discussion tended to deal with each component separately rather than occurred in connection with each other. Furthermore, when connections were made during the discussion, only few components of instruction appeared. Based on this result, the paper suggests the need to develop tools to facilitate effective reflection in ways that incorporate various components of instruction and enhance connectivity between the components and between the instructions.