• Journal of Science Education
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• v.34 no.2
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• pp.359-368
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• 2010

The purpose of this study was to find out the factor that causes the difference on understanding the aim and perception of laboratory activities between teachers and students. For this study, in-depth interview was conducted for sixth grade students and teachers of 10 classes. The questionnaire of the interview can be divided into 3 sections: the aim of laboratory activities, whether teachers present the aim of laboratory activities, the method of laboratory class progress and the evaluation method. The factors that bring about the difference between the teachers and the students on perception of the aim are the absence of proper guidance on the aim of laboratory activities, the laboratory classes that the progress out of teachers' intention and evaluation method that is the performed without any relationship with the aim of the laboratory activities. Because the teacher-intended aim of laboratory activities is not properly presented, students can't percept the accurate aim. Even though teachers recognize the importance of the improvement of science process skill acquired through laboratory activities, this is not delivered practically in the class and students also can't percept the importance of science process skill.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.177-190
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• 2006

Numerous aims of laboratory activities have been suggested by a number of researchers in science education; however the lists of aims very according to researcher. As such, there is still no agreement educational goals on the in science laboratory activities by experts in science education. The purpose of this study was to obtain a consensus using the Delphi technique on the aims of laboratory activities from expert community. This expert community consisted of four scientists, four science educators, six elementary school teachers, and seven secondary school teachers. The list of aims obtained from the expert community were tested with the Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test to determine whether IQR between 2nd and 3rd was convergent. Results of this study produced, lists of aims of laboratory activities according to school science level. There were seven aims for elementary school science, nine aims for secondary school science, and thirteen aims for university science.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.254-264
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• 2003

Researches on laboratory work show that students often achieve little meaningful learning through laboratory work. One reason for this failure is that students often do not know the different types of laboratory work and the 'purposes' of them. Therefore, this study investigated middle school student' ideas about the purposes of laboratory work. To seventh grade students(n=147) of middle school in Seoul, Korea, we asked (Question 1) "Why do scientists do laboratory work?" and (Question 2) "Why do you do laboratory work in science classes?" It was required a short essay including the reasons and examples of them. From the results, it was found that 56.8% of the students had ideas that scientists do laboratory work for discovering new facts or inventing something, and 82.9% of the students responded that they do laboratory work for understanding and memorizing the contents of science textbook. In addition, the differences according to gender and to school achievement level, and the relationship between the ideas about scientists' laboratory work and about school science laboratory work were examined. The results showed that boys responded 'social usefulness' more frequently than girl, while girls mentioned 'personal pleasure' more frequently than boys in relation to the purposes of scientists' laboratory work(p<.05). According to the achievement level, it was founded that 'middle' level students replied 'to remember' more frequently than high and low levels in relation to school science laboratory work. Finally, students who had ideas that scientists do laboratory work for verifying a theory had the similar ideas about school science laboratory work. In conclusion, students are lack of diverse and proper views about laboratory work. It is recommended that teacher need to make clear the purpose of laboratory work and help students to understand of it.

• Journal of Science Education
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.103-120
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• 2008

The purpose of this study was to compare science teachers' perceptions with students' perceptions about the important aims of laboratory activities in science instructions, to identify whether there was a difference between them. For the purpose, the two questionnaires were designed; for secondary science teacher and secondary student. The samples selected in each group were 108 middle school teachers, 109 middle school students, 104 high school teachers, and 110 high school students. The survey responses from each group were analyzed through multiple response method. The results indicated that science teachers selected the science process skills as important aim of laboratory activity whereas students selected the ability for creative problem-solving and the central tendency of teachers' responses about certain item-science process skill was relatively higher than students' responses about certain item-the ability for creative problem-solving. From these results, we found there was the difference between teachers' perception and students perception about the important aims of laboratory activities in science instructions.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.33 no.6
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• pp.1248-1258
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• 2013

This study investigated the elementary school students' perception of the "purpose of scientists' experiments" and discovered what roles teachers can take to provide guidance. The study subjects were 193 elementary school students (96 boys and 97 girls) in a school located in Gyeonggi-do. The responses were analyzed through categorization based on their gender, science test score at school, and understanding of the purposes of scientific experiments based on students' choice of science-related future careers. The results of this study were as follows. In relation to the purpose of science experiments, the elementary school students considered intrinsic values of doing experiments more valuable than their extrinsic values. Next, 34.2% of the students answered that scientists do science experiment 'to find a new fact' and 26.9% of the students answered 'to make life convenient.' The results showed that girls responded 'social usefulness' more frequently than boys. Considering the achievement levels, it was found that high level students replied 'to make life convenient' more frequently than middle and low level students on why scientists do science experiments. Students who want to have a science-related career had varied ideas about it.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Industrial Safety Conference
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• 1999.06a
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• pp.157-162
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• 1999

본 연구는 현장의 굴착공사에 따른 토류 구조물 설치공사의 수행에 있어서 토류 벽체의 지지 구조체률 형성하는 Earth Anchor에 대한 시공의 적정성 여부 및 설계목적에의 부합 여부를 판정하여 토류 벽체의 안정성 판단 및 Earth Anchor의 설계 목적에의 부합성 여부를 판단하기 위하여 본 연구를 수행하며 실험의 기준은 SIA. Standard Edition 1977 규정에 따르며, Earth Anchor의 설계, 정착장 및 자유장의 길이를 적절히 산출하고 정착력에 대한 신뢰도, 즉 인발력을 실험하여 정착장의 소요 안전율을 추정하며 더불어 지반에 대한 비교, 판단도 행하는 것이 목적이다. (중략)

• Journal of the Korean earth science society
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• v.27 no.5
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• pp.509-520
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• 2006

The purpose of this study was to analyze laboratory instructions in a secondary school science with an analysis instrument on science laboratory instruction. For its purpose, we used an instrument that analyzes three dimensions of the secondary laboratory instructions. This analysis instrument was composed of 3 categories (the aim of the laboratory activity, interaction, and inquiry process) which are spread into 20 sub-categories, and its validity was checked by four science educators with factor of 0.89. For its purpose, 21 sessions of lab instructions were video-recorded and transcribed. According to the results, in the aims category, the instructions mainly focused on two aims; acquiring the declarative knowledge and increasing attitudes toward science. In the interaction category, some of the observations made were that the teachers's questions could not gather the students' divergent thinking, their directive instructions were centered around themselves rather than giving opportunities for students to be centered within laboratory activities, and students' interaction were rarely shown. Therefore, interaction was classified as level I. In the inquiry process, presenting phenomenon or questionings about the subjects were little observed, and students' hypothesizing and predicting were almost nonexistent. Most of the activity designs within lab session were given from the teachers' directions or worksheets, and students solely focused on data collecting and recording. Hence, inquiry process were classified level I.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.125-136
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• 2008

In many practical engineering design problems, the form of objective functions is not given explicitly in terms of design variables. Given the value of design variables, under this circumstance, the value of objective functions is obtained by real/computational experiments such as structural analysis, fluid mechanic analysis, thermodynamic analysis, and so on. These experiments are, in general, considerably expensive. In order to make the number of these experiments as few as possible, optimization is performed in parallel with predicting the form of objective functions. Response Surface Methods (RSM) are well known along this approach. This paper suggests to apply Support Vector Machines (SVM) for predicting the objective functions. One of most important tasks in this approach is to allocate sample data moderately in order to make the number of experiments as small as possible. It will be shown that the information of support vector can be used effectively to this aim. The effectiveness of our suggested method will be shown through numerical example which is well known in design of engineering.

• Journal of the korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.3-16
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• 1989

본 고에서는 품질향상 측면보다는 실험계획법 자체에 중점을 두고 이를 소개하고자 한다. 실험게획의 일차적 목적은 어느 의미에서는 모형화 즉 반응치에 미치는 각 인자의 주효과의 교호작용 관게를 규명하는 것이라고 볼 수 있으며 방법론에서 전조합실시법과 부분실시법으로 구분할 수 있는데 부분실시법의 목적은 어떻게 하면 경제적으로 시험횟수를 최소화하되 전조합실시법의 효과를 낼 수 있는가 하는 것이다. Taguchi의 실험계획은 직교배열을 이용한 부분실시법에 근거를 두고 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Emotion and Sensibility Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.139-142
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• 2007

본 연구의 목적은 특정 목적을 가진 제품들의 특성들을 파악하여 디자인 개발시 이러한 특성들을 제품 컨셉 또는 디자인 형태에 응용하고자 함이다. 이를 위해 먼저 실험 대상을 설정하였고, 실험 대상을 선택한 후 실험 대상에 관한 기초 설문과 실험 대상 이미지 분석을 실시하였다. 이후 실험 대상의 디자인과 기능적 요소를 추출하여 코딩하였다. 그리고 실험 대상의 이미지분석 후 얻은 요소와 실험 대상의 요소의 관계를 증명하였으며, 실험 대상의 특성 추출을 위한 설문을 실시하였다. 이러한 실험 프로세스를 거쳐 특정한 제품에 특성들을 추출함으로써 디자인 개발 시 소비자 니즈의 분석이 가능하며, 제품을 이해하는 기초 자료로 사용이 가능하다. 또한 디자이너가 제품을 쉽게 이해하고 디자인 개발 시 컨셉 설정에 큰 기초가 된다. 본 연구의 MP3의 경우 MP3의 이미지 분석 결과 음악성, 확장성, 휴대성, 사용성, 신체 부담감, 인터페이스, 그리고 개성으로 나타났으며, 이들과 각각 연관된 특성들을 찾았다. 이로써 MP3를 디자인할 때 중요 특성들을 제시하였다. 이러한 기초 연구를 통해 보다 효과적인 소비자 니즈 파악이 가능하고, 디자인 기초 학문 발전을 가져올 것이다.