• Journal of Gifted/Talented Education
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.167-191
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• 2006

The purpose of this study was to explore logical thinking abilities and metacognitive characteristics by student's giftedness and grade level. Furthermore, this study sought to present the practical basis for the promotion of students' abilities in self-driven learning as well as cognition. Average-ability students(n=199), economically disadvantage gifted students(n=133), and gifted students(n=111), who were sampled by two-step sampling procedures, responded the logical thinking ability test(Cho et al, 2006) and the questionnaire asking self-perception for 'metacognitive knowledge' and 'metacognitive control' abilities(Cho & Han, 2004). As the results, average-ability students showed less logical thinking abilities(in language, mathematics, and space) than gifted students. The logical thinking abilities had affected by giftedness, grade level and these interaction. And gifted students showed higher metacognitive control abilities in planning, monitoring, priority, and strategies of learning than average-ability students. However, there were no significant differences in metacognitive knowledge and metacognitive control abilities between economically disadvantaged gifted students and gifted students.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.13 no.7
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• pp.1467-1474
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• 2009

What matters in the society of knowledge and information is not that they just know certain facts, but that when faced with new situations, they should be able to develop novel ideas, apply them and do the problems or the tasks confronting them. This cannot be achieved through learning of mere knowledge. Computer programming lessons have shown positive effects on general thinking ability, metacognitive aspects, and logical thinking. The ACM has suggested that 8th grade students at the first level (second year students of middle school) be educated in programming languages such as LOGO to raise their ability to think logically. Previous studies have confirmed educational programming languages such as LOGO and BASIC, which are currently used, are helpful in improving the ability to think logically and to solve problems. However these languages lack connectivity with later learning. Little research has been done on 'Dolittle', an educational programming language, newly developed, using object-oriented notions. Few studies have been made of the effects of 'Dolittle' on the ability to think logically. The following results were obtained. The research didn't lead to a statistically significant improvement of the students' cognitive development level. However, proportional logic and combinational logic, among the six subcategories of logic, improved through the introduction of 'Dolittle' programming lessons. This leads to the conclusion that in the processing of solving the problems given, the students learned by themselves and improved their ability to think logically.

• 한국정보교육학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.01a
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• pp.67-72
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• 2008

지식기반 사회에서는 새로운 지식을 만들어 낼 수 있는 능력과 융통성, 문제해결력, 논리적 사고력 등을 가진 인재를 필요로 하고 있다. 알고리즘 교육은 학생들의 정보마인드와 정보적 사고, 논리적 사고능력의 신장을 위하여 반드시 필요하며, 이는 다변화 되어가는 사회에서 다양한 문제를 해결해 나가는 능력을 키우는 데 큰 역할을 할 것이다. 이에 본 논문은 논리적 사고력 신장을 위한 생활 속의 알고리즘 교육 방법을 모색하여 제안하고자 한다.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.677-688
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• 2001

The purposes of this study are to investigate the school science high achievers' achievements in enrichment physics, logical thinking level, and to analyze the relationship between logical thinking level and the achievement in enrichment physics of high achievers in science. The subjects were 357th and 8th graders who achieved highly in school science. To assess their achievements in enrichment physics, we developed a new test consisting of descriptive problems which were based on middle school curriculum. Those problems require one or two steps of thinking process, not simple knowledge of science. To assess logical thinking level, we used the instrument called GALT(Group Assessment of Logical Thinking) developed by Roadranka et al. The results showed that the school science high achievers' average achievement in enrichment physics was low, 56.3 out of 150, which indicated that they had not done much of enrichment learning beyond middle school science curriculum. Just only 54% of the school science high achievers are in formal logical thinking level. From the analysis of relationship between their logical thinking level and the achievement in enrichment physics, the value of the correlation coefficient was 0.174, which means that they are not almost correlated. Therefore, it is not desirable to judge science gifted children just from achievement in school science or enrichment physics, so both(logical thinking and the achievement in enrichment physics) tests should be taken for selecting gifted student.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.189-199
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• 2011

The purpose of this study is to verify the effects of the advance organizer in programming class on elementary school students' logical thinking ability and self-efficacy. We developed our teaching-learning materials of programming for this purpose, Further, they are applied to the elementary school, and their effects are analyzed. Fourth grade students in elementary school were selected for the experiments of this study, For comparison, they were divided into a control group who taught by a traditional programming teaching method and an experimental group who taught by our advance organizer programming class. As a result, through before-and-after t-verifications performed on the experimental group and the control group respectively, we found statically significant differences between the two groups, and the effectiveness of our new programming teaching method was proved in both learner's self-efficacy and logical thinking ability.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.199-207
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• 2010

This paper is proposed to present elementary algorithmic thinking-based Squeak E-toy programming problems for flowchart-based programming educations without programming languages in elementary programming educations. Furthermore, this paper proves the validity and effects of developed Squeak E-toy programming problems through measurement analyses of metacognition and GALT logical thinking ability experiments by comparing with the language-based traditional programming education.

• 한국정보교육학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.08a
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• pp.201-206
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• 2007

현재 컴퓨터 교육은 흥미와 실용위주의 컴퓨터 활용교육과 컴퓨터 소양교육에 치우쳐 있어 컴퓨터의 작동원리 등의 컴퓨터 과학을 이해하기에는 부족함이 많다. 특히 컴퓨터과학 분야 중 문제해결력, 논리적 사고력을 향상시키기 위한 프로그래밍 기초 교육은 보다 강조해야 한다. 본 연구에서는 객체지향형 교육용프로그래밍언어 두리틀을 초등학생들에게 프로그래밍을 지도할 수 있는 최적의 언어로 선정하고 다른 프로그래밍 언어와 비교 분석해 보았다. 그리고 자기 자신의 학습상황을 감독 관리하는 능력인 메타인지 수준에 따라 학습자를 분류한 후, 두리틀 프로그래밍 학습 후 논리적 사고와 그 하위논리의 효과, 그리고 메타인지 수준에 따른 논리적 사고와 그 하위 논리별로 미치는 영향을 분석하였다.

• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.13-22
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• 2013

Digital technology brought about many changes which has changed the life of modern people. Adolescents need programming learning to increase a competitiveness what will lead the future. Recently though an interest about programming learning has raised, there are many trouble to take programming learning. In this paper, we planed and implemented a program that elementary students can learn programming using Kodu easily and excitingly. According to comparison of pre-to-post tests about logical thinking using GALT, correlational reasoning and total of experimental group were growing significantly. Also, elementary students had positive cognition in learning interest about programming.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.387-397
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• 2011

In order to analyze the change of student's logical thinking, in this study, we were develop the educational materials. This educational materials were used in algorithm class through educational programming language Scratch. Algorithms of education materials were selected by analysis of foreign ACM and domestic middle school curriculum. The developed educational materials were applied to 4th grade students of elementary school. In order to analyze the change of student's logical thinking, we were used GALT short version. Total logic and Combinational reasoning, in the experimental group students, were growing significantly.

• 대한공업교육학회지
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• v.33 no.2
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• pp.170-191
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• 2008

Many former researchers demonstrated that algorithm learning has a positive outcome on students' problem-solving abilities. One of the methods for algorithm learning, the 'programming learning' method is highly effective. However, there are numerous constraints in schools for programming learning. This study attempts to overcome these issues. Squeak Etoys, one of the educational visual programming languages for easy and interesting learning, has been selected as a learning tool. We developed the algorithm-learning curriculum for middle school students. They were divided into a control group and an experimental group. The students learned on the basis of equal curriculum but, they used other learning tools through over a total 6 sessions. The result showed that Squeak Etoys based Algorithm learning has a positive effect on improving middle school learners' problem solving abilities, self-efficacies and logical thinking abilities. Although the students' logical thinking abilities in the experimental group are improved a lot more than the students' abilities in control group, the students' logical think abilities in the both groups are improved. Therefore, algorithm education in secondary schools are necessary. In conclusion, Squeak Etoys based Algorithm learning has a positive effect on problem solving ability and self efficacy. The developed curriculum can be applicable as a basis for study on algorithm learning and educational programming language.