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Development of Storytelling Program for Science Learning Utilizing Local Myths as Contents

  • Kang, Kyunghee
    • International Journal of Contents
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    • v.10 no.3
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    • pp.55-63
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    • 2014
  • Existing science education that excludes narrative thinking impedes the understanding of the context of workbook content. The object of this research is to develop a storytelling-learning program based on narrative thinking to elevate learners' interest in science and expand their inventive problem-solving abilities. Following an analysis of the current Korean curriculum, eight types of storytelling materials that utilize local content were developed for grades 7-9. The learning program used quest storytelling and was designed such that learning activities such as investigation, discussion, and experimentation were included in the process of solving each quest. Learners experienced an interest in storytelling learning resulting from participation in this storytelling-learning program. Moreover, learners demonstrated inventive problem-solving abilities in the process of completing the stories. During the process of assembling the storytelling materials, the students interacted with enthusiasm and generated ideas. The teachers indicated a positive feedback to the storytelling program as a new attempt to stimulate learners' interests. In the future, with continuous development and application, storytelling-science-learning programs that base science learning on narrative thinking are expected to be successful.

Elementary Preservice Teachers' Conceptions about and its Changes in the Nature of Science and Constructivist' View of Learning. (교육대학생의 과학의 본성 개념과 구성주의 학습관의 연관성 및 변화 조사)

  • Kwon, Sung-Gi;Pak, Sung-Jae
    • Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.104-115
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    • 1995
  • Teachers' conception about the nature of science is considered to be an important factor to improve the students' conceptions of that. It is assumed that teachers' conception of the nature of science may be influenced by their views of learning. The first purpose of this study was to investigate the exploratory relationships between teachers' conceptions about the nature of science and their views of learning. The second one was to compare the their conceptions and views of learning before and after science education lectures during 1 semester. We administered the questionnaires for the nature of science and for constructivist's learning, respectively, consisted of 5 dimensions (relativism-positivism; inductivism- deductivism; decontextualism-contextualism; content-process; instrumentalism-realism) and of 6 aspects (student; learning; instruction; teacher; curriculum; evaluations) were administered to 57 pre-service elementary teachers (female=44; male=13) before and after lectures. In pre-test it was revealed that respondents had not the consistent conceptions about the nature of science. The conception of relativism was more dominant than those of positivism, deductivism than inductivism, decontextualism than contextualism, process than content and instrumentalism than realism. They had more constructivist views in the respect of process of learning than in other respects, that is, students, instruction, teacher, curriculum and evaluation. But no significant correlations between the dimensions of the nature of science and the aspects of the views of learning suggest that constructivst views of learning was not deeply related with their conceptions of the nature of science. In post-test we had similar results with those of the pre-test, but the process-content dimensions of the nature of science was correlated with the constuctivist views of learning. Therefore we concluded that elementary pre-service teachers had the constructivist views of learning which was isolated with their conceptions of the nature of science although they had science educations course. We need to develop the course to make the conceptions of the nature of science relate view of learning.

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Elementary Students' Awareness about Self-directed Learning Experiments at Science Club (과학 동아리에서 경험한 자기 주도적 실험 학습에 대한 초등학생들의 인식)

  • Ju, Eun Jeong;Kim, Heung-Tae
    • Journal of Korean Elementary Science Education
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    • v.35 no.2
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    • pp.253-264
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    • 2016
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate implications of self-directed learning experiments in elementary science education through understanding elementary school students' awareness of their experiences in self-directed learning experiments. Twenty students joined the school science club voluntarily and conducted self-directed learning experiments. We collected data through observation of the experiments, interviews, and questionnaires. The students who participated in the club showed high satisfaction with self-directed learning experiments. The participants were aware that their scientific interest and knowledge, and the confidence in conducting experiments were increased. The students felt positive about the inquiry process of conducting self-directed learning experiments with their own subjects. They also felt a sense of achievement in attempting their experiments in defiance of several failures. The participants realized that the self-directed inquires led to increased declarative and procedural knowledge of science. The students stated that they had some difficulties in coping with the different results contrary to expectations and preparing laboratory materials and instruments. Nonetheless, they showed the promotion of their scientific literacy during overcoming those difficulties. We suggest that self-directed learning experiments can be a more effective way in science learning to make students experience the nature of science than existing school experiments. This can be implemented through a creative experience activities such as science clubs.

The Effects of Cooperative Learning by Students' Performance Goal Orientation in Elementary Science Classes (초등학교 과학 수업에서 학생들의 수행 목표 지향성 수준에 따른 협동 학습의 효과)

  • Koh, Han-Joong;Kim, Youn-Sil;Kang, Suk-Jin
    • Journal of Korean Elementary Science Education
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    • v.29 no.3
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    • pp.307-315
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    • 2010
  • In this study, we investigated the effects of cooperative learning by the levels of students' performance goal orientation in science classes on 6th graders' science achievement and science learning motivation. Two classes (47 students) from an elementary school were respectively assigned to a control group and a treatment group. A performance goal orientation test and a science learning motivation test were administered as pretests. The intervention of cooperative learning lasted for 24 class periods. A researcher-made achievement test and the science learning motivation test were administered after the instructions. ANCOVA results indicated that the score of the treatment group was significantly higher than that of the control group in the achievement test. However, no interaction was found between the cooperative learning treatment and the levels of students' performance goal orientation. There were significant aptitude-treatment interactions in science learning motivation.

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Animated Game-Based Learning of Data Structures In Professional Education

  • Waseemullah, Waseemullah;Kazi, Abdul Karim;Hyder, Muhammad Faraz;Basit, Faraz Abdul
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.22 no.9
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    • pp.1-6
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    • 2022
  • Teaching and learning are one of the major issues during this pandemic (COVID-19). Since the pandemic started, there are many changes in teaching and learning styles as everything related to studies started online. Game-Based Learning has got remarkable importance in the educational system and pedagogy as an effective way of increasing student inspiration and engagement. In this field, most of the work has been carried out in digital games. This research uses an Animated Game-Based Learning design in enhancing student engagement and perception of learning. In teaching Computer Science (CS) concepts in higher education, to enhance the pedagogy activities in CS concepts, more specifically the concepts of "Data Structures (DS)" i.e., Array, Stack, and Queue concepts are focused. This study aims to observe the difference in students' learning with the use of different learning methods i.e., the traditional learning (TL) method and the Animated Game-Based Learning (AGBL) Method. The experimental results show that learning DS concepts has been improved by the AGBL method as compared to the TL method.

The Effects of Jigsaw II Cooperative Learning upon the Academic Achievement and the Self-directed Learning Ability Applied to Earth Science (지구과학 I 의 Jigsaw II 협동학습이 학업성취도 및 자기 주도적 학습능력에 미치는 효과)

  • Kim, Sang-Dal;Kim, Soon-Shik;Kim, Eun-Jeong
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Earth Science Education
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.28-40
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    • 2008
  • This study is the analysis of the effects of Jigsaw II Cooperative Learning upon the academic achievement and upon the ability of self-directed learning, compared to lecturing. It made it experimental target for two male and two female classes of students in the 2nd grade of humanity high school in Ulsan metropolitan area. One male and one female classes conducted Jigsaw II cooperative learning by making up a small group heterogeneously from the aspect of learning ability, and the other male and female classes carried out the lecturing focusing on a teacher. As for the academic achievement of science, Jigsaw II cooperative learning was shown to be effective compared to the lecturing. As for the ability of self-directed learning, Jigsaw II cooperative learning was indicated to be effective compared to the lecturing. As for the ability of self-directed learning for Jigsaw II cooperative learning, it was indicated to be effective compared to the lecturing. Given seeing this, it was identified the necessity for Jigsaw II cooperative learning to be applied to a school field as an alternative plan for the lecturing.

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Enhanced Machine Learning Algorithms: Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, and Q-Learning

  • Park, Ji Su;Park, Jong Hyuk
    • Journal of Information Processing Systems
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    • v.16 no.5
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    • pp.1001-1007
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    • 2020
  • In recent years, machine learning algorithms are continuously being used and expanded in various fields, such as facial recognition, signal processing, personal authentication, and stock prediction. In particular, various algorithms, such as deep learning, reinforcement learning, and Q-learning, are continuously being improved. Among these algorithms, the expansion of deep learning is rapidly changing. Nevertheless, machine learning algorithms have not yet been applied in several fields, such as personal authentication technology. This technology is an essential tool in the digital information era, walking recognition technology as promising biometrics, and technology for solving state-space problems. Therefore, algorithm technologies of deep learning, reinforcement learning, and Q-learning, which are typical machine learning algorithms in various fields, such as agricultural technology, personal authentication, wireless network, game, biometric recognition, and image recognition, are being improved and expanded in this paper.

The Effects of Science Teaching and Learning Using Student-led Instructional Strategies on Elementary School Students' Science Core Competencies (학생주도형 수업전략을 활용한 과학 교수 학습이 초등학생의 과학과 핵심역량에 미치는 효과)

  • Kang, Hountae;Noh, Sukgoo
    • Journal of Korean Elementary Science Education
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    • v.39 no.2
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    • pp.228-242
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    • 2020
  • The purpose of this study is to develop a student-led instructional strategy that is central to the teaching-learning process and to investigate its effects. For this study, we analyzed the learner-centered learning types (discovery learning, problem-based learning, inquiry learning) and extracted elements applicable to newly developed teaching-learning. Based on this, a student-led class strategy was established using pre-learning, teacher collaboration, small group composition, and limited open data and product presentation, and then science classes were conducted. As a result of the post-tests of the five science core competencies of the experimental group using the student-led instructional strategy and the comparative group conducting lecture-based classes, the experimental group showed higher scores than the comparative group in the scientific thinking, scientific communication, and scientific attitudes (p<.05). Based on these results, it was confirmed that the student-led class, in which the student self-adjusts the entire process of designing, exploring, and presenting learning, can help the student's scientific ability. In addition, I would like to discuss the implications of teachers' teaching-learning composition.

A Data-centric Analysis to Evaluate Suitable Machine-Learning-based Network-Attack Classification Schemes

  • Huong, Truong Thu;Bac, Ta Phuong;Thang, Bui Doan;Long, Dao Minh;Quang, Le Anh;Dan, Nguyen Minh;Hoang, Nguyen Viet
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.21 no.6
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    • pp.169-180
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    • 2021
  • Since machine learning was invented, there have been many different machine learning-based algorithms, from shallow learning to deep learning models, that provide solutions to the classification tasks. But then it poses a problem in choosing a suitable classification algorithm that can improve the classification/detection efficiency for a certain network context. With that comes whether an algorithm provides good performance, why it works in some problems and not in others. In this paper, we present a data-centric analysis to provide a way for selecting a suitable classification algorithm. This data-centric approach is a new viewpoint in exploring relationships between classification performance and facts and figures of data sets.