• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.355-361
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• 2018

The purpose of this study is to examine whether self-understanding influences self-directed learning, and to analyze the mediating effect of future-oriented thinking in the relationship. For this purpose, 240 middle school students in G area were surveyed using self-understanding scale, future-oriented thinking scale, and self-directed learning scale. The structural equation model was used to verify the mediating effect. The main results are as follows. First, self-understanding of middle school students influenced self-directed learning. Second, future-oriented thinking has a complete mediation effect on self-directed learning. As a result of this research, comprehensive implications were suggested for interventions.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.139-146
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• 2020

There is a hot debate about what the core competencies of future generations, who have to live an uncertain future, should cultivate. The future society is expected to become a Software-oriented Society driven by software. Under these circumstances, interest in software education is exploding around the world, and interest in cultivating computational thinking through software education is also increasing. Also, discussions about what computational thinking is and what competence factors are made up are in progress. However, the research on the relationship between the competence factors of computational thinking is relatively insufficient. In order to solve this problem, this study proceeded as follows. First, five competence factors of computational thinking were selected. Second, we defined a path model to analyze the relationships among the competence factors of computational thinking. Third, we chose a test tool to test computational thinking. Fourth, the computational thinking tests were conducted for 801 students in grades 3 through 6 of elementary school. Fifth, implications were derived by analyzing various viewpoints based on the results of the computational thinking test.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.81-90
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• 2019

Since 2015, the government has been striving to strengthen the software capabilities required for future talent through software-oriented university in Korea. In the university selected as a software-oriented university, basic software education is given to all departments such as humanities, social science, engineering, natural science, arts and the sports within the university in order to foster convergent human resources with different knowledge and software literacy. In this paper, we analyze the contents of basic software education for twenty universities selected as software-oriented universities. As a result of analysis, most of the basic software education which is carried out to the students of the non-majors students was aimed at improvement of problem solving ability centered on computational thinking for future society and improvement of convergence ability based on computer science. It uses block-based educational programming language and text-based advanced programming language to adjust the difficulty of programming contents and contents reflecting characteristics of each major. Problem-based learning, project-based learning, and discussion method were used as the teaching and learning methods for problem solving. In the future, this paper will help to establish the systematic direction for basic software education of non-majors students.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.19 no.8
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• pp.214-223
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• 2019

This study was to review the research trends in domestic computing thinking and to suggest future research direction by analyzing 138 papers related to computing thinking published in domestic academic journals from 2015 to 2018. As a result, domestic research on computing thinking has been steadily increasing since 2015, and quantitative research, development research and experimental research were mainly used. Most research were conducted for elementary school students and university students. Research topics are oriented to the curriculum and program as well as the relationship among the variables related with computational thinking. It is necessary to explore empirical studies such as teaching methods, teaching tools, media utilization, and evaluation methods in order to promote learner's computing thinking. Also, it is needed to explore various variables related to enhance computing thinking and the relationship among the variables.

• Journal of Engineering Education Research
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.3-13
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• 2020

The purpose of this study is to analyze the differences in the perception and education requirements between industry and engineering students on engineering convergence competency, and to suggest implications for fostering engineers suitable to industry demand and direction of focus improvement in the current engineering education field. To this end, 73 industrial representatives and 104 engineering students are surveyed the engineering convergence competency and educational needs. The results of this analysis are as follows: first, the difference in engineering convergence competency by background variable was significantly different in gender of engineering students. Second, it is found that there is a significant difference between the current level and the required level of engineering convergence competency from an industry perspective. In the IPA results, it shows that new knowledge generation and future-oriented vision skills are urgently needed to be improved. And it is showed that the creative thinking, knowledge utilization, communication, and cooperation capabilities skills need to be maintained continuously. Third, as a result of the analysis of the differences in recognition of the current competency levels between industry and engineering students, there is statistically significant differences in systemic thinking, communication and cooperation, understanding of other academic fields, humanities, and future-oriented perspectives. Therefore, it is necessary to specific plans and efforts to reduce this perception gap should be prepared at the university.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.12 no.8
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• pp.4057-4071
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• 2018

The software centered world following the fourth industrial revolution is rapidly approaching us. Countries around the world attach importance to software's ability as one of the key elements for training future human resources. In order to train software centered human resources, each university has designated Software Education as an essential curriculum for not only major but also non-majors. In the past Software Education was an education for a major, but recent Software Education was changed to the essential education that is necessary for all living in the software centered world. In the past the curriculum was focused on software development and implementation-oriented education, but recent curriculum emphasizes sequential arranging and thinking of problem solving. In order to reflect trends in recent Software Education in detail, we integrate Software Education with major concept of Computational Thinking. In this paper, we analyzed the effect of the main concept of Computational Thinking on Software Education for non-majored learners who received Software Education based on Computational Thinking (here refers to learners who major in humanities, social sciences and arts). In addition, research models of satisfaction, self-efficacy, and occupational change was established as the elements of Software Education, and it was found that there was a relation between Computational Thinking and Software Education.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.49-58
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• 2020

The study was conducted on 492 social workers in Seoul and Gyeonggi Province to find out the impact of self-leadership on job satisfaction by social workers, centering on the mediated effect of self-efficacy. First, in the self-leadership of social workers, we confirmed that behavior-oriented and constructive thinking have a positive effect on job satisfaction, and the natural compensation has no effect. Second, in the self-leadership of social workers, we confirmed that behavior-oriented and constructive thinking have a positive effect on self-efficacy, and the natural compensation has no effect. Third, the self-efficacy of social workers was found to have a positive effect on job satisfaction. Fourth, the behavior-oriented and constructive thinking of the social worker who has self-leadership were found to have a positive effect on job satisfaction by mediating self-efficacy. Based on such research, some suggestions for social welfare practice and future research tasks are proposed.

• Journal of Creative Information Culture
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.275-283
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• 2019

The fourth industrial revolution is emerging as the talk of the times. The industrial structure is changing greatly from the past, as well as the social scene, changing our daily lives. Especially, the importance of the software sector is growing. For students who have to live in this future society, computational thinking is a key capability. In order to achieve this goal, this study was carried out in the following steps. First, we organized a SW education convergence program based on life-oriented aspects. Second, the configured program was applied to the site to verify the effectiveness of computational thinking. The results of this study show that the experimental group has 32 points better than the pre-test, and the comparative group has about 2 points better. The statistical significance probability was a significant difference of .028. The results of this study may be used as a reference for the training of SW convergence education and future talent in the future.

• Educational Technology International
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.1-16
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• 2007

The general aim of this article is to explicate what can be researched in our field based on the new understanding on the ability of human visual intelligence. To follow this aim, three key discussions were followed. The first is to explain why the human visual intelligence research is so important in our field and how it was neglected. The basic orientations of the research questions used in its framing and in answering are reviewed. After reviewing traditional research orientations, as the second discussion, alternative, more useful perspective for thinking about human visual intelligence is suggested. And the possibility of contribution for the future research in general is discussed. In doing so, human visual intelligence was defined in rather practically oriented ways rather than theoretically oriented ones. More practical perspectives were suggested. The third discussion is to show how to use the alternative perspectives of human visual intelligence in the areas of educational technology research. It was hoped that the article lays out conceptual groundwork for generation of educational technology research frameworks which can be used for the research conduct, reproduction and sharing by adopting practically oriented views on human visual intelligence as a new territory of educational technology research.

• The Mathematical Education
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• v.58 no.4
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• pp.483-505
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• 2019

Across the world, there is a movement to incorporate computational thinking(CT) into school curricula, and math is at the heart of this movement. This paper reviewed the meanings of CT based on the point of view of Jeanette Wing, and the trend of domestic and international studies that incorporated CT into the field of mathematics education was analyzed to provide implications for mathematics education and future research. Results indicated that the meaning of CT, defined by mainly computer educators, varied in their operationalization of CT. Although CT and mathematical thinking generally have common points that are oriented toward problem solving, there were differences in the way of abstraction that is central to the two thinking processes. The experimental studies on CT in the field of mathematics education focused mainly on the development of students' cognitive capacities and affective domains through programming(coding). Furthermore, the previous studies were mainly conducted on students in school, and the studies conducted in the context of higher education, including pre-service and in-service teachers, were insufficient. Implications for mathematics teacher educators and teacher education as well as the relationship between CT and mathematical thinking are discussed.