• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.288-301
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• 2001

The essence of adapting education to the information age consists of two parts. One is the building of infrastructure for information education and the other is putting information and communication technology to educational use. Moreover, from a usage point of view, it is the most important thing that secures much educational software of good quality supporting adapting schools to the information age. It does mean the investigation about the plan of evaluation of educational software is important. Thus, in this study, we provide scientific information for efficient selection and use of educational software as end-users, and provide objective evaluation criteria of quality as a developer. In addition, through this research, we can lay the foundation for adapting education to the information age. For this purpose, we analyzed previous research relevant to the evaluation of educational software, divided the criteria of evaluation into three parts, educational, applicational, and technical, and develop the criteria of evaluation in detail.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.681-687
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• 2018

Many papers are published in KCI-listed journals for objectively validating research results and evaluations. This study collected articles published from 2008 to October, 2018 (10 years) of KAIE, which is a representative KCI registration institute which publishes various research related to elementary information education, and classified and analyzed by 10 subject areas. As a result, 34.2% of the papers published in the topic related to software education were found in the whole papers, and 33% of the papers published in this society showed the highest number of citations of papers relating to software education. Many of the remaining articles analyzed by subject area were overlapped with software education in the field of small scale medicine. In the future, a considerable number of researchers are expected to focus on software education.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.585-596
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• 2020

The purpose of this study is to examine effects of maker education for high-school students on attitude toward software education, creative problem solving, and computational thinking. The program was designed to develop an artificial intelligence robot using mBlock and Arduino and implemented at a maker space. We analyzed 19 students among 20 who participated in the program, the result of paired t-test indicated significant increase in all variables. Also, we performed a multiple regression analysis to investigate predictors of perceived achievement and satisfaction. The finding demonstrated an initial attitude toward software education was found to be the significant predictor of perceived achievement and satisfaction. With the results, we confirmed maker education enhances attitude toward software education, creative problem solving, and computational thinking. Lastly, we discussed the implications and limitations and suggested the direction for future research.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.459-466
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• 2015

The content of software education for elementary school students in the 2015 revisions to the national curriculum are not sufficient because class time dedicated to software education has been limited to 17 hours in fifth and sixth grades. In this study, I developed the algorithm and programming model for Korea. I analyzed domestic and international software education curricula as well as training platforms, such as Code.org, Blockly Games, and Entry. The suggested algorithm and programming framework is known as the Rainbow system, which is divided into 7 steps, 14 criteria, and 3 content areas--understanding the algorithm, the actual programming, and evaluation of the program. Using the Rainbow system, once students have completed a level they can be promoted to the next stage, regardless of their grade.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.385-398
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• 2015

In this study, we presented a App Inventor utilization Software Education program in the process of education for Computational Thinking improvement of elementary school girls. In order to analyze the effects of education programs that have been developed, to elect the 3, 4, 5 grade girls of the sample of volunteers by volunteers form collection as an experimental population, was charged with the development programs, and It was analyzed educational effect using the results of the pre-post tests. The results of the analysis, App Inventor utilization Software Education program that was developed in this study it was found that help in Computational Thinking kidney of elementary school girls.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.11 no.12
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• pp.2419-2425
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• 2007

There are many activities that open source software can using at several areas from the government. It enforces the open source software demonstration activities with different meaning link It is an evaluation field whether or not using the open source software in information projects. But the public information and the education against the open source software are insufficient to the middle and high school students who are be latent open source software users. In this paper, I present an examination and analysis of the open source software understanding of the middle and high computer subject teachers in Korea. This research results could be applied with the place fundamental data which searches a program which revitalizes the open source software education from the middle and high school.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.533-544
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• 2015

In this study, the direction for hierarchical curriculum organization about software education in Korea was suggested in terms of overall execution of software education. The international case studies especially was conducted in order to suggest the propel educational programming language for level of students in the programming activity. In terms of the international case studies, the type of programming language was examined, which is suggested to each school level as a part of required regular curriculum. Then, the direction was supposed to suggest the instructional system organization of software education for Korea through the result of case studies. The results of case studies indicated that elementary school use the block based programming language, and text based programming languages are used from middle school.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.409-418
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• 2015

The purpose of this study is derived implications at software curriculum development utilizing the backward design model. In this study, we developed 'Algorithms and Programming' unit teaching plan based on backward design template. First, we have derived enduring understandings, essential questions, specific knowledge and skill on 'Algorithms and Programming' unit by considering the goal, content, achievement standard of Software education operating instructions. Second, we developed authentic tasks using GRASPS technic and holistic scoring rubrics. Third, we developed 7 lesson 14 WHERETO element for effective teaching in 'Algorithms and Programming' unit. Fourth, we investigated about the effectiveness of the development unit based on backward design. Backward design could be useful of developing curriculum unit and lesson plan at software education.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.9-18
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• 2019

In this study, the contents of the Software Education area included in the Practical Art textbooks of the elementary school were analyzed based on the achievement standards of the Software Education in the 2015 revised curriculum for exploring the characteristics of the Software Education and the direction to go. According to the results of the analysis, the five achievement standards presented by the Ministry of Education were assigned to 17 or 18 times according to the textbooks. Unplugged activities related to Algorithm and unplugged activities related to Computer Science were included in textbooks. Contents of [6P04-09] and [6P04-10] standards were shown differently according to textbooks.Based on the results, it is suggested that Subsequent studies with quantitative and qualitative analysis for six kinds of textbooks should be continue.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.26 no.6
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• pp.930-935
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• 2022

The ability to use software is an essential competency in modern society. As a result, programming education is conducted from elementary school to university. In case of programming education for non-majors conducted in the liberal arts at universities, if it is conducted online using high-quality contents, problems such as the shortage of professional professor and the limitation of practice time can be solved. Also, it has the advantage of providing students with enough time to think and solve problems. In this paper, the possibility of online lectures was investigated through a survey before and after lectures in software liberal arts courses conducted online. From the results of the survey, it is judged that the goal of software education can be achieved even if software lectures are conducted online, which is to improve computational thinking and problem-solving skills.