• English Language & Literature Teaching
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• v.9 no.spc
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• pp.79-98
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• 2003

This article reports that a testee's content schemata have detrimental effects on the validity of standardized reading comprehension tests. in case that the reading passages constitute his prior background knowledge framed by regular academic pursuits focused on a major field of study. The empirical research findings on such a reliability issue have shown that the Korean subjects' familiarity with the content domain of the reading materials may substantially enhance their test performance, operated as unfair advantages over the other participants at the same level of English proficiency who do not possess technical knowledge closely related to the contents of the test passages. Based on these results, it may be argued that the reading text should be composed of maximally neutral contents to every testee to avoid the possible overlapping between a test-taker's content schemata and the content domain of the materials. Therefore, this article claims that the tenets of schema theory with its long-standing foundation on culturally predetermined content and formal schemata need to be expanded to cover professional knowledge structures, like those acquired by higher education, as the hard-wired framework of an individual's original culture-specific background knowledge.

• International Journal of Knowledge Content Development & Technology
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.65-74
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• 2015

The paper lists problems in defining information and knowledge and also in differentiating between the two. It separately describes physical, economic and cognitive properties of information and knowledge. A long drawn comparative chart of the nature, characteristics and properties of knowledge and information is given. In addition it explains their relation with wisdom. The paper emphasizes that knowledge is only a human preserve. Also it finds common grounds and mutual dependence between information, knowledge and wisdom. The purpose is to clear confusion between knowledge and information, and find their relation with wisdom and tradition by placing these in value added and evolutionary chain: Signals--data-- Information--Knowledge--Wisdom--Tradition.

• East Asian mathematical journal
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• v.39 no.2
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• pp.141-166
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• 2023

The purpose of this study is to confirm the MKT(Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching) of the in-service mathematics teachers on the statistics(Representative value, Degree of scattering) through the comparative analysis between the sub-elements of the MKT. In addition, it is to examine the factors that cause the difference of the subjects' MKT. To accomplish this, by the subject of 12 secondary in-service mathematics teachers, in this study the test items of the MKT on the statistics were developed and data were collected and analyzed. As a result of the analysis of the MKT test sheet, the CCK(Common Content Knowledge) and SCK(Specialized Content Knowledge) of the mathematics teacher was confirmed as a high score, whereas the and KCS(Knowledge of Content and Students) and KCT(Knowldge of Curriculum and teaching) were confirmed as low scores. In addition, through these results, it was shown that the difference in MKT's elements the middle school and high school teachers obtain occurred slightly.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.441-448
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• 2024

The purpose of the study was to examine the effects of pre-service early childhood teachers' pedagogical content knowledge in mathematics and constructivist educational belief on mathematics teaching efficacy. The subjects were 187 pre-service early childhood teachers who enrolled in universities majoring early childhood education. We used self-reporting survey questionnaires to measure the major variables and utilized the SPSS 28.0 Program to analyze the collected data. Cronbach's alphas were calculated and the descriptive statistical analysis were conducted. To investigate the research questions, Pearson's correlation analysis and multiple regression analysis were done. As results, the higher the levels of pre-service early childhood teachers' pedagogical content knowledge in mathematics and constructivist educational beliefs, the higher their mathematics teaching efficacy. In addition, both pedagogical content knowledge in mathematics and constructivist educational belief were validated as the predictors of increased mathematics teaching efficacy of pre-service early childhood teachers.

• Proceedings of The KACE
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• 2017.08a
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• pp.217-220
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• 2017

테크놀로지의 발전에 따라 교육에서도 테크놀로지를 도입하기 위한 움직임이 활발하게 진행되었다. 교육에서는 테크놀로지를 학생들이 학습 과정에서 겪는 문제점을 해결하기 위한 목적으로 활용하였다. 하지만, 교사들의 테크놀로지에 대한 전문성 부족으로 인하여, 교사들은 수업에 테크놀로지를 도입하는데 많은 어려움을 겪고 있었다. 테크놀로지를 기반으로 한 교사의 수업 전문성 발달을 위하여 테크놀로지 교수 내용 지식(TPACK)이 도입되었고, 교사의 TPACK 향상을 위한 연구가 많이 진행되었다. 최근에는 테크놀로지가 가진 한계점을 극복하기 위하여 새로운 테크놀로지 도구로써 프로그래밍이 주목받고 있다. 따라서 선행 연구에서는 프로그래밍을 기반으로 TPACK 교육 프로그램을 향상시키기 위한 교육 프로그램이 개발되었다. 본 연구에서는 김성원과 이영준(2017)에서 개발한 TPACK 교육 프로그램의 효과를 검색하기 위한 연구를 진행하였다. 교사에게 적합한 40차시의 TPACK-P 교육 프로그램을 개발하였고, 연구를 위하여 모집한 17명의 교사를 대상으로 교육 프로그램을 적용하였다. 또한, 교사의 TPACK 변화를 관찰하기 위하여 박기철과 강성주(2014)의 연구에서 개발한 검사 도구를 교육 프로그램 투입 전, 후에 실시하였다. 적용 결과, TPACK-P 교육프로그램을 통하여 교사의 TPACK은 통계적으로 유의미한 향상이 나타났다. 세부 영역에서는 Pedagogical Knowledge(PK), Technological Knowledge(TK), Technological Content Knowledge(TCK), Technological Pedagogical Knowledge(TPK), Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge(TPACK)에서 통계적으로 유의미한 차이가 나타났다. 하지만, Content Knowledge(CK)와 Pedagogical Content Knowledge(PCK)에서는 통계적으로 유의미한 차이가 나타나지 않았다. 이러한 결과를 통하여 TPACK-P 교육 프로그램이 모든 영역은 아니지만, 테크놀로지와 관련된 지식과 교사의 TPACK 발달에 효과적인 것을 확인할 수 있었다. 본 연구에서는 TPACK-P 교육 프로그램을 통한 교사의 TPACK 변화를 검사 도구를 통하여 측정하였다. 후속 연구에서는 TPACK-P 교육 프로그램에 참여한 교사의 수업 전문성의 변화와 학교 현장에서 수업의 변화, 이에 대한 학생들의 반응을 측정하는 연구가 필요하다.

• School Mathematics
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.423-441
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• 2008

The purpose of this study was to examine the Pedagogical Content Knowledge(PCK) of teachers and their educational practice in the category of plane figure, to make a comparative analysis of their PCK and educational practice, and to discuss the relationship between their PCK and the characteristics of their instruction. Instruction of four selected elementary school teachers was analyzed to find out their educational practice. In conclusion, the characteristics of the PCK and actual instruction of the teachers could be listed as below: First, as a result of comparing their PCK and educational practice on plane figure by applying selected analysis criteria, there was a close correlation between their PCK and actual instruction. Second, the teachers had various levels of PCK on different areas. Especially, there was a large disparity in mathematical content knowledge and knowledge of teaching methods. Third, the teachers who had plenty of PCK were more excellent in textbook reconstructing, and those who fell behind in terms of PCK were more reliant on textbooks as if the textbooks had been the Bible.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.22 no.7
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• pp.141-152
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• 2017

As the importance of technology increases, so too does its use in various areas. In education, technology is often used. However, due to teachers' lack of knowledge about technology, they often remain at the level of simple utilization, without applying it to learning. Thus, there is a growing need for Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK), which enables teachers to have knowledge about technology and use it appropriately given the content. Although TPACK studies are underway in many subjects, they suffer from the limited functionality of the included technology. To solve this problem, in this study, the range of technology in TPACK was extended to programming, and a TPACK-P model was developed to teach this expanded TPACK to pre-service teachers. To verify the effectiveness of this model, the TPACK-P training program developed during the 15th classes was applied to 19 pre-service teachers. We used Park and Kang (2014) as a tool to measure these teachers' TPACK before and after treatment to observe any changes. The results showed that the TPACK-P education program showed statistically significant improvement in all areas except Pedagogical Content Knowledge(PCK). Compared with the ICT-based TPACK training program, which was administered to a control group, the TPACK-P training program proved to be more effective in the development of Technological Pedagogical Knowledge(TPK) and TPACK among pre-service teachers.

• The Mathematical Education
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• v.51 no.3
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• pp.281-300
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• 2012

This study has examined the current status of mathematics education departments by analyzing its curriculum and teaching methods. We analyzed data set of the number of faculty and students, curricula, textbooks and instructional methods among 23 mathematics education department in Korea. The data reveals that the curricula of the universities of education has shown that more content knowledge subjects are taught than pedagogy knowledge subjects. However, it is important to note that there is increasing emphasis on pedagogical content knowledge. In addition, the curricula of mathematics education departments deal with various aspects of pedagogical content knowledge. What matters is whether the system works for developing a sound and deep understanding of fundamental aspects of the subject matter in future mathematics teachers. The results of the study point to the importance of pedagogical content knowledge and to the essential components that can promote further understanding of effective teaching for preparing future teachers in mathematics education departments.

• Research in Mathematical Education
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.323-332
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• 2010

It is the development of a mathematics teachers' teaching knowledge that manifests a mathematics teacher's professional knowledge growth. It is becoming a direct and effective approach of conversion of mathematical knowledge into the knowledge of mathematics teaching. Through the investigation, the study revealed that the knowledge conversion process of mathematics teachers in middle school is restricted by three aspects including eight factors. From this point, the authors have structured the path and model on influencing factors of middle school Mathematics Teaching Knowledge Conversion (MPCK), and discuss the mechanism of the transformation process.

• International Journal of Knowledge Content Development & Technology
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.85-105
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• 2017

Given the variety of approaches to mapping the universe of knowledge that have been presented and discussed in the literature, the purpose of this paper is to systematize their main principles and their applications in the major general modern library classification schemes. We conducted an analysis of the literature on classification and the main classification systems, namely Dewey/Universal Decimal Classification, Cutter's Expansive Classification, Subject Classification of J.D. Brown, Colon Classification, Library of Congress Classification, Bibliographic Classification, Rider's International Classification, Bibliothecal Bibliographic Klassification (BBK), and Broad System of Ordering (BSO). We conclude that the arrangement of the main classes can be done following four principles that are not mutually exclusive: ideological principle, social purpose principle, scientific order, and division by discipline. The paper provides examples and analysis of each system. We also conclude that as knowledge is ever-changing, classifications also change and present a different structure of knowledge depending upon the society and time of their design.