• Journal of Elementary Mathematics Education in Korea
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.171-194
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• 2006

As it is not long since the gifted education was implemented in elementary school, it is necessary to accumulate the practical studies on the mathematically gifted education. This paper focused on enhancing creativity by providing the various and divergent thinking activities for mathematically gifted students. For this purpose, I prepared two mathematics problems, and , and let the mathematically gifted 5th grade students solve them. After that, I investigated to analyse their reactions in detail and tried to find the methods for assessing their divergent products. Finally, I found that they could pose various and meaningful calculating equations and also identify the various relations between two numbers. I expect that accumulating these kinds of practical studies will contribute to the developments of gifted education, in particular, instructions, assessments, and curriculum developments for the mathematically gifted students in elementary schools.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2024.01a
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• pp.471-472
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• 2024

본 논문에서는 초등학생을 위한 데이터 분석 대회를 활용한 데이터 분석 프로그램을 개발하였다. 데이터 분석 프로그램은 ADDIE 모형에 개발하였다. 분석 단계에서 G초등학교 학생들의 데이터 분석 도구인 스프레드 시트를 학습한 경험이 적고 배우고자 하는 동기가 없었다. 하지만 교육과정에서 공학도구로 활용하도록 제시되어 있다. 이를 바탕으로 디자인 학생들이 스프레드 시트를 학습할 수 있는 프로그램과 이를 실습할 수 있는 데이터 분석 대회를 디자인 하였다. 개발 단계에서는 LMS를 활용하여 학생들에게 학습을 위한 데이터를 제공하고 학습하며, 데이터 분석 대회에서는 학습한 데이터와 문제만 제공하여 대회에 참여하면서 실습할 수 있는 기회를 제공하였다. 평가 도구로는 데이터 리터러시 평가 도구를 선정하였다.

• Journal of Korean Elementary Science Education
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• v.42 no.4
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• pp.513-522
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• 2023

There is a lack of empirical research on the level of students' state anxiety according to their perceived task difficulty when confronting science questions. This study seeks to investigate whether perceived task difficulty moderates the process of arousing students' state anxiety in science learning. In pursuit of this objective, we engaged 410 fifth- and sixth-grade elementary school students (186 fifth graders; 194 females) in solving two science questions. We then verified the moderating effect of perceived task difficulty on the relationship between science anxiety and state anxiety arousal when confronting science questions using the PROCESS Macro Model 1. Results confirmed that science anxiety and perceived task difficulty significantly and positively predicted state anxiety. Notably, perceived task difficulty had a significant moderating effect on the process of arousing state anxiety, where lower perceived task difficulty led to a greater increase in state anxiety after confronting the science questions. We discuss the implications of the findings for science education and propose potential directions for future research.

• Journal of Nutrition and Health
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• v.46 no.1
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• pp.86-97
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• 2013

This study investigated the eating habits of elementary school children and their perceptions related to traditional Korean foods, based on the health belief model. The subjects were fifth grade elementary school children (274 boys and 274 girls) in eight Korean cities. The results were as follows: The children ate almost three meals per day and were grateful for their meals. However, they irregularly consumed meals and snacks. They tended to eat heartily and did not eat foods that they had not yet eaten. Their meals were based on rice and they have eaten kimchi and vegetables at almost every meal. However, they had undesirable habits in eating other foods, such as fruits, fish, soybeans, and sweet foods. They did not sensitively or seriously perceive their eating habits in relation to their health. They perceived that it was very good for their nutrition, health, and tastes to eat traditional Korean foods, and they had pride in traditional Korean foods and eating style. Although they expressed some difficulty regarding availability and preparation of traditional Korean foods, they hardly felt difficulty in eating them. They had high dietary self-efficacy with regard to eating these foods, except for two items of self-regulation. Their eating habits showed positive correlation with dietary self-efficacy, perceived susceptibility, and perceived benefit. In conclusion, eating habits of elementary school children in relation to traditional Korean foods are not desirable, but not serious. They did not sensitively or seriously perceive their eating habits in relation to their health. However, they perceived that it was very good for their nutrition and health to eat traditional Korean foods, did not have a high level of difficulty in eating them, and had high dietary self-efficacy with regard to eating them. Therefore, we suggest that children should be exposed to various traditional Korean foods, along with education about them, in order to enhance their concern and motivation to eat them.

• Korean Journal of Health Education and Promotion
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• v.27 no.5
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• pp.1-14
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• 2010

Objectives: This study is an explorative study for developing an instrument to measure habitual physical activity level of school-aged children. Methods: HPAQ-S consists of 41 items and a self-reported 5-day recall instrument designed to assess habitual physical activity level for school-aged children. For the validity and reliability test, a sample consisted of 28 children, aged 10-11 years old. Results: 41 question items showed an acceptable internal consistency (cronbach's alpha=.89). A significant positive correlation with the pedometer results (r=.69, p<.001) and with Borg's questionnaire (r=.76, p<.001) support the validity of HPAQ-S. Conclusion: HPAQ-S may be more useful for measuring habitual physical activity level of elementary school-aged children in large populations.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.405-415
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• 2008

In the existing curriculum of the Elementary Computer Education, it is hard to improve the CPS(Creative Problem Solving) skill and logical thought since the 7th national curriculum emphasizes application programs and CAI softwares. To complement this drawback, it is required to teach the principal of the computer science but there is not many researches for what problems of teaching computer science exist and what the response of students are. Thus, we carried out a research to know whether the students of elementary school can understand principal of computer science in the field of subject matter education. We found that the students can learn the principle of Saving Bitmap Image if the class level is adjusted properly.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.73-81
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• 2013

Elementary students are living in the information environment at daily. Also, they are learning the school curriculum lessons are based on information. Computational thinking that based on information from everyday life and the school curriculum is important. Until now, many educational materials for the computational thinking have been developed. But, teaching and learning method for computational thinking have not been developed. In the study, the teaching and learning model for computational thinking for elementary school students will be developed. Computational thinking education model proposed in this study consists of three phases. The first phase is the information gathering stage. The second phase is to perform calculations. The last phase is the decision-making steps. Effective teaching and learning methods that are proposed model in this study for computational thinking education will be used.

• Journal of Elementary Mathematics Education in Korea
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.125-148
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• 2008

The purpose of this study was to analyze concretely and minutely a primary factor of deciding attitude of learning mathematics of elementary school students, grope a solution for negative attitude of learning mathematics with researching a difference between major factors by achievement in mathematics, and examine a suggestion in forming positive attitude of learning mathematics. The results of this study is as follows. First, elementary school students decided whether they liked or disliked mathematics, depending on not only characteristics of mathematics, but also teacher's teaching mathematics with interest and fun, or teacher's teaching tediously and difficultly. Second, negative attitude toward mathematics exam of elementary school students was influenced by parents' meddling for exam and negative attitude toward result of exam more than uneasiness by exam itself. Third, as private education for elementary school students becomes more popular, the learning mathematics out of school can be an important factor to decide attitude of learning mathematics of students on several sides such as teacher, teaching method, method of presenting task, and so on as much as mathematics class in school, and characteristics of mathematics. Fourth, students demanded silent and concentrative atmosphere in studying to have positive attitude of learning mathematics. Fifth, as the result of examining major factors that form attitude of teaming mathematics of groups by achievement in mathematics, there was considerable difference in each group. Students in a group of ‘upper’ and ‘lower’ disliked parents' meddling and rebuke, but it didn't change greatly their attitude toward mathematics exam. However a group of ‘middle’ showed the greatest uneasiness toward an exam, and they reacted sensitively to parent's rebuke, scolding, learning environment, and so on.

• 한국정보교육학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.08a
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• pp.51-60
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• 2005

현대 사회에서 정보는 학생들의 생활에 큰 영향을 주고 있으며, 정보화 사회의 주역이 될 학생들에게 정보화 교육은 절실하게 필요하다. 2003년 이후로 초등학교에서 정보통신기술이 전면적으로 실시된 이후 여러 방면에서 활발한 논의가 이루어지고 있지만, 교육 목표에 대한 학생들의 학업 성취 수준을 평가하는 것은 간과되어 왔다. 본 논문에서는 초등학교 2, 4, 6학년 학생들의 정보통신기술교육에 대한 학습 목표 성취도를 살펴보고, 학생들의 학습 경로와 교육목표 성취도 간의 관계를 분석하여 더 나은 ICT 교육의 방향을 제시해 보고자 한다. 먼저, 단계별 학습 영역에 따른 학습 내용을 추출하고 평가 기준을 세운 후 해당 학생들의 학습 정도와 학습 내용의 습득 경로를 평가지를 통하여 조사하였다. 조사 내용을 영역별로 분석한 결과 컴퓨터 교육의 인지적인 부분이 기능적인 부분보다 상대적으로 교육목표 성취도가 낮으며, 학습 경로를 분석한 결과 수업 시간보다는 집에서 가족에게 배우거나 스스로 익히는 경우가 더 많은 것으로 조사되었다.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.375-380
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• 2009

Computer programming education can improve students' logical thinking and problem-solving ability. Therefore, it is essential tool to improve algorithmic thinking ability. We study how much Dolittle and Squeak influences improving elementary students' logical thinking ability. Thus, we divided 6th grade elementary students into two classes and then taught Dorittle and Squeak programming languages for 6 weeks, respectively. We compare and analyze each logical thinking ability and its sub-classifications. The results showed that Dorritle affects significant improvement, but not Squeak.