• International conference on construction engineering and project management
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• 2011.02a
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• pp.647-652
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• 2011

Developments in the teaching of the National Diploma in Building students should be geared towards meeting the needs of the construction industry in South Africa. These needs are usually in the form of skills and knowledge required to resolve thorny issues encountered in practice. The lack of capacity in the construction industry needs to be addressed from the basis of ensuring that the education system caters for both mature entry and matriculation entry students. The paper looks at a comparison in performance between mature entry and matriculation (just finish High School) entry students focusing on the National Diploma in Building students at the University of Johannesburg. The paper will make a comparison between those students who work first before enrolling for their first year National Diploma in Building and those who are directly from high school. Cooperative education involves training and systematically developing students through the acquisition of the requisite skills, attitudes, values and knowledge required to adequately perform in their chosen careers. The paper describes the problems and experiences that have been encountered by both mature and matriculation entry students in their three years of study which affects their performance. The paper will then look at the value of prior experience in enabling students to finish their National Diploma in Building within a three year period. The paper closes with some recommendations for the future.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.651-660
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• 2018

To determine the educational effects of collaborative story creation activities using the Entry programming language, we instructed first year students at the national university of education on these activities for three weeks and analyzed the changes in their software (SW) education capacity and story creating ability. The completed analysis showed no significant changes in the students' SW education capacity as related to information literacy, computational thinking, and learner competency; however, the students' ability to create stories increased significantly. Although students struggled to learn story creation using Entry, they gradually found that the activities were useful and their interest in creating stories grew. Therefore, we suggest expanding the number of subject curriculum activities using Entry in order to improve SW education capacity as well as the subject capacity for student teachers.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.65-73
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• 2022

In this study, by using Entry text model learning, educational contents for artificial intelligence education of elementary school students are developed and applied to actual classes. Based on the elementary and secondary artificial intelligence content table, the achievement standards of practical software education and artificial intelligence education will be reconstructed.. Among text, images, and sounds capable of machine learning, "production of emotion recognition programs using text model learning" will be selected as the educational content, which can be easily understood while reducing data preparation time for elementary school students. Entry artificial intelligence is selected as an education platform to develop artificial intelligence education contents that create emotion recognition programs using text model learning and apply them to actual elementary school classes. Based on the contents of this study, As a result of class application, students showed positive responses and interest in the entry AI class. it is suggested that quantitative research on the effectiveness of classes for elementary school students is necessary as a follow-up study.

• Research in Mathematical Education
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.51-66
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• 2012

This study investigated the impact of entry level of mathematics subject knowledge on student teachers' mathematics pedagogical content knowledge development and performance in mathematics teaching practice. The sample consisted of 24 mathematics student teachers, 12 of whom passed A-Level mathematics and 12 of whom only passed O-level mathematics. They were all studying in a 4-year bachelor of education (Honours/Primary) programme; they were either majoring or minoring in mathematics. Results showed that student teachers' entry-level mathematics subject knowledge is not related to their mathematics pedagogical content knowledge development or their mathematics teaching performance. These findings may lead society to consider whether student teachers who have passed O-level mathematics are already eligible to be trained as professional primary mathematics teachers. As a consequence, this study raises the issues of how to develop student teachers' mathematics pedagogical content knowledge and whether we need to restructure our bachelor of education (Primary) programmes' curriculum in teacher professionalism.

• Journal of Creative Information Culture
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.307-317
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• 2019

This study is an example of the education of block coding and physical computing teaching tool for preservice teachers at the college of education. The students were familiar with coding and improved their coding skills in solving various problems through 'Entry' that support block coding. In addition, the students configured the computing system with various input / output devices of the physical computing teaching tool and controlled things through programming and produced the educational portfolio to experience the whole process of problem analysis, design, implementation, and testing in coding. We applied Flow based coding and Pair programming as the teaching methods, and the results of the survey to measure the effectiveness of the study show that students have a good understanding of the entry and physical computing teaching tool and using the combination of the entry and physical computing teaching tool were more effective in learning than the Entry-only coding. In addition, it was confirmed that the effect of Pair programming applied in the physical computing teaching tool.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.28 no.5
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• pp.80-88
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• 2014

The purpose of this study is to present an effective plan that can improve satisfaction of curriculum for preparatory firefighters who participated in a course for entry-level. It also aims at examining which elements have a significant effect on curriculum is what satisfises the entry-level firefighters through survey and research for education satisfaction. Independent variables influencing education satisfaction of entry-level firefighters include training facilities, training contents, instruction, relationships between trainers and trainees and relationships between trainees. Suggestions in terms of policy based on analysis of this study are as follows. Transfer effect of training for entry-level firefighters should be produced. Demander centered training should be given so that various methods can be attempted. In addition, sensibility training should be boosted through mutual sympathy between trainees and trainers and trainers should make constant effort to improve expertises, multidisciplinary training of various fields should be given.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.24 no.5
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• pp.473-481
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• 2020

Data science starts with small data analysis and includes machine learning and deep learning for big data analysis. Data science is a core area of artificial intelligence technology and should be systematically reflected in the school curriculum. For data science education, The Entry also provides a data analysis tool for elementary education. In a big data analysis, data samples are extracted and analysis results are interpreted through statistical guesses and judgments. In this paper, the big data analysis area that requires statistical knowledge is excluded from the elementary area, and data science education examples focusing on the elementary area are proposed. To this end, the general data science education stage was explained first, and the elementary data science education stage was newly proposed. After that, an example of comparing values of data variables and an example of analyzing correlations between data variables were proposed with public small data provided by Entry, according to the elementary data science education stage. By using these Entry data-analysis examples proposed in this paper, it is possible to provide data science convergence education in elementary school, with given data generated from various subjects. In addition, data science educational materials combined with text, audio and video recognition AI tools can be developed by using the Entry.

• Journal of Creative Information Culture
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.197-206
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• 2021

This study is a case of convergence education using the AI model of entry in elementary schools. The subject is English, and the class was conducted based on the image learning model among the convergence activities with the art department drawing and the AI model of the entry. In order to effectively achieve the learning goals of speaking and writing in English education. The class was designed by combining art and SW. Students experienced communication using AI, improved confidence, and were able to improve creativity and communication skills by expressing not only listening and speaking but also expressing through various media such as pictures and photos. In addition, in order to find out the effectiveness of the class, a survey was conducted on students and the results were analyzed. As a result of the analysis, it was found that it had a positive effect on students' participation rate, degree of understanding AI after class, interest in AI, satisfaction with AI classes.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.403-413
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• 2017

The purpose of this paper is to verify whether the entry programming course applied with the flow based learning type is to affect the flow of students' learning. The subjects of the study were the students in the 3rd grade of the National University of education who had not experienced the coding before, and conducted two hours of programming lessons per week for three months. Learning contents and learning materials of beginner course in Entry Homepage were used as learning materials. The teaching and learning process consisted of clear goals setting, motivation, follow-up and immediate feedback, providing application problems, and providing reflection time for students. As a result of the study, the nine factors of flow were compared before and after the experiment. The seven factors - A balance between challenges and skills, Immediate feedback, Action and awareness are merged, Distractions are excluded from consciousness, No worry of failure. Self-consciousness disappears, The activity becomes autotelic-were obtained.

• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.61-68
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• 2017

The purpose of this study is to develop and validate the effects of the software education contents for enhancing metacognition of the cognitive issues that improve the creative problem solving ability. The experimental group was taught by entry programming class using the software education contents developed in this study while the control group was taught by traditional method for entry programming. To confirm the changes of two groups, metacognitive post t-test was performed and compared with pre t-test results. The analysis result of the post t-test showed the following: There are statistically significant differences between the experimental group and the control group at a significance level of 0.05 for the interest of the experimental group. Therefore it was confirmed that the programming classes using software contents is effective in improving the metacognition of students.