• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.7 no.5
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• pp.1-8
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• 2004

This study investigated the effect of visual learning preference levels in computer assisted instruction (CAI) using static graphics and animations on students' conceptual understandings, application abilities and learning motivations. Fifty-nine seventh graders were selected from a middle school in seoul, and they were taught about the motion of molecule for 4 class hours. Two-way ANCOVA results revealed that the scores of the conception test of the animations group, regardless of student's visual learning preference levels, were significantly higher than those of the static graphics group. However, there were no differences between the two groups in the scores of application test and learning motivation test.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.25 no.7
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• pp.728-735
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• 2005

In this study, relationships between student the cognitive affective characteristics and conceptual understanding from individual computer-assisted instruction were investigated. Tests regarding field dependence-independence, learning strategy, self-regulated ability, visual learning preference, goal orientation, self-efficacy on ability, and computer attitude were administered. After having been taught by means of a CAl program, a conception test on molecular motion was administered. It was found that student conceptual understanding was significantly related to field independence, learning strategy, self-regulated ability among the cognitive characteristics and visual learning preference, goal orientation, self-efficacy on ability among the affective characteristics. Multiple regression analysis of the cognitive characteristics on conceptual understanding found that field dependence-independence was the most significant predictor. Self-regulated ability and a deep learning strategy were also found to have predictive power. Lastly, analysis of the affective characteristics, visual learning preference and self-efficacy on ability exposed them to be significant predictors of student conceptual understanding.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.9-15
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• 2006

Students have often experienced difficulties in understanding the concept of the particulate nature of matter despite its importance in chemistry. Although various instructional methods have been suggested for teaching this concept, systematic studies have been rarely conducted. Therefore, this study investigated the effects of drawing and analyzing pictures. Three classes of 7th graders at a coed middle school in Seoul were assigned to the control group, the drawing group, and the analyzing group, respectively. Students were taught about the three states of matter and the motion of molecules for 8 class periods. The instructional effects on student conception, achievement, and science learning motivation were investigated by student visual learning styles. Results revealed that the scores of a conceptions test and a science learning motivation test for both the drawing group and the analyzing group were higher than those for the control group. Additionally, the scores of the science learning motivation test were also found to be higher for students with a more visual learning style than their counterparts.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.59-65
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• 2006

The development of web service area enables to integrate the various existing systems into web, which have been utilized to the several fields such as education business and companies. The e-learning could be an important teaching method for English education in that the learners prefer to use of the visual material in language learning. The students are provided with the motivation of learning for it is interesting to them. The purpose of this study is to research the problems so that web service can be organized efficiently for the education of English. In addition, this paper is to suggest an alternation of the direction for development of skills to solve the existing problems.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.28-36
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• 2007

This study investigated the influences of small group discussion and students' visual learning style in learning chemical concepts with drawing and writing as methods to assist students in connecting and integrating multiple external representations. Seventh graders (N=449) at a coed middle school were assigned to individual drawing (ID), pair drawing (PD), individual writing (IW), and pair writing (PW) groups. All students learned "Boyle's Law" and "Charles's Law" for two class periods. Analyses of the results revealed that the students in the PD group, regardless of students' visual learning style, scored significantly higher than those in the ID group in a conception test. The scores of the students with strong visual learning preference in the PW group were significantly higher than those in the IW group in the conception test, while the scores of the students with weak visual learning preference were not significantly different between the two groups. Although the conception test scores of the PD group were higher than those of the PW group, the difference was relatively small. It was found that most students in both PD and PW groups perceived pair drawing and pair writing positively upon cognitive and motivational aspects.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2003.04c
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• pp.371-373
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• 2003

웹 문서를 분류하는 목적은 특정 주제별로 중요한 문서들을 구분하려는 것과 사용자의 선호도를 바탕으로 개인화를 하려는 것으로 나누어 볼 수 있다. 특히, 웹의 효율적인 탐색을 위해 사용자가 관심 있어 할 웹 문서를 분류하는 것은 중요하다 일반적으로 하나의 웹 문서는 특징 추출방법에 의해 문서 벡터로 표시되며 사용자의 선호여부나 주제번호를 클래스로 삼는다. 사용자가 선호도를 표시한 웹 문서를 사용하여 새로운 웹 문서의 선호 여부를 예측하기 위해 자기 구성지도(SOM)를 사용하면, 시각적으로 구조를 보여주어 데이터 사이의 관계를 효과적으로 이해할 수 있다. 그러나 SOM은 노드의 개수와 구조를 자동적으로 결정하지 못하는 단점이 있기 때문에, SOM의 장점을 활용하면서 자동적으로 구조를 결정하기 위해 구조적응 자기구성지도(SASOM)를 이용한다. 보다 나은 성능과 다양한 해석을 위해, 여러 개의 SASOM을 서로 다른 특징추출 방법을 이용하여 학습시킨 후 사용자가 주관적으로 분류기의 중요도를 결정할 수 있는 퍼지적분을 사용하여 결합하였다. UCI Syskill & Webert 데이터에 대한 실험결과 기존의 DT, MLP, naive Bayes 분류기 보다 향상된 성능을 보였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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• v.30 no.12 s.159
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• pp.1788-1799
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• 2006

Assessment of the implementation of a web-based courseware technology application across a merchandising program over a two-year period provides empirical evidence that students believe the technology was easy to use and useful. Results also show that the use of the application was not a hard-ship for the students in terms of time or access, that students in lower class ranks who had not had technology enhanced courses previously were more satisfied with the technology than upper class students, and that perceptions of the technology and satisfaction with it increase with experience using the technology.

• Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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• v.43 no.6
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• pp.981-1001
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• 2008

This research deals with cognitive characteristics of point symbols on the current tourist maps in terms of the communication theory in considering levels of symbolization and those of preference. The levels of symbolization are examined on the basis of the meaning of point symbols between map-makers and map-users. Preferences of point symbols are investigated by the tourist objects. As a result, when point symbols are expressed in conciseness, the meaning and interpretation about those symbols are highly accorded. And the point symbols that have familiarity by visual experience are preferred. Also, the higher symbolical levels symbols have, the more likely they are preferred. Through that fact, familiarity from the visual experience, conciseness in expression, concreteness of figures expressed in maps, and representativeness of visualized properties were deduced as factors that affect preferences. Those factors work to affect preference complicatedly, but familiarity is prior to simplicity in preferences. Likewise, ways that visualize information, contents that are expressed as images and familiarity in terms of cognitive characteristics make a relative difference in preferences and the levels of symbolization. On the basis of those cognitive characteristics, visual complexity and ambiguity should be removed and the higher symbolical level of point symbols for efficiency of map-reading should be developed.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.11b
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• pp.682-684
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 시각적 웹페이지 세그멘테이션 기법을 웹 콘텐츠 변환에 적용하고 이를 사용하여 이동기기에 적합한 개인화 기법을 제안한다. 웹페이지를 사람이 시각적으로 구분하는 것과 유사한 블록으로 나누고, 각 블록의 속성을 파악하여 불필요한 블록은 필터링한다. 그리고 실제 내용을 나타내는 블록의 주제를 추출하여 휴대장치에 제공하는 효율적인 콘텐츠 적응화 기법을 제시한다. 또한 개인화된 콘텐츠를 제공하기 위해 적응화 과정에서 학습을 기반으로 사용자가 선호하는 정보만을 제공할 수 있는 개인화 기법을 제시한다.

• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.1-11
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• 2020

As software and artificial intelligence education became more and more important, in December 2019, the Ministry of Science and ICT announced plans to expand software and AI education to mandatory education in elementary and secondary schools by 2022. In addition to elementary and secondary schools, most universities are actively engaged in software education for computer non-majors, but research on coding education for computer non-majors is insufficient. The purpose of this paper is to find an efficient teaching and learning method for coding education for computer non-majors. Nowadays, college students, called Millennial and Generation Z, prefer visual information and are familiar with computers as digital natives. Based on these characteristics, this study examined the visual literacy and thinking styles of college students and then examined whether the students' visual literacy and thinking styles influenced coding-based problem solving in coding subjects. Based on this, this paper proposes an alternative to do programming education more efficiently for students who are new to coding.