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An Analysis of Data Science Curriculum in Korea (데이터과학 교육과정에 대한 분석적 연구)

  • Lee, Hyewon;Han, Seunghee
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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    • v.54 no.1
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    • pp.365-385
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    • 2020
  • In this study, in order to analyze the current status of the data science curriculum in Korea as of October 2019, we conducted an analysis of the prior studies on the curriculum in the data science field and the competencies required for data professional. This study was conducted on 80 curricula and 2,041 courses, and analyzed from the following perspectives; 1) the analysis of the characteristics of data science domain, 2) the analysis of key competencies in data science, 3) the content analysis of the course titles. As a result, data science program in Korea has become a research-oriented professional curriculum based on an academic approach rather than a technical, vocational, and practitional view. In addition, it was confirmed that various courses were established with a focus on statistical analysis competency, and interdisciplinary characteristics based on information technology, statistics, and business administration were reflected in the curriculum.

Comparison and Analysis of the 2009 Elementary Science Curriculum of South Korea and the Elementary Science Curriculum of Finland (우리나라 2009 개정 초등 과학교육과정과 핀란드 초등 과학교육과정 비교분석)

  • Lee, Soyoung;Noh, Sukgoo
    • Journal of Korean Elementary Science Education
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    • v.33 no.3
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    • pp.491-509
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    • 2014
  • The purpose of this study was to compare and analyze the elementary science curriculum of Finland, which ranked at the first place in the science domain of Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), a comparative study on the academic achievements of OECD member nations, for three consecutive years and recorded a high national competitiveness index, and that of South Korea, thus providing information needed to develop curriculums and textbooks in the middle of occasional curriculum revisions and giving useful implications for the implementation of curriculum in the field of education in South Korea. The research findings were as follows: First, as for the science content areas based on the ratio of large area items according to the evaluation and analysis framework of TIMSS 2007, South Korea's ratio of life, chemistry, physics, and earth hardly showed fitness for TIMSS 2007 and exhibited equal distribution among the areas. In Finland, the ratio of life, chemistry, physical, and earth was similar to the fourth grade level of TIMSS 2007. The country showed differential distribution with life accounting for the highest percentage. Second, as for the cognitive domains, South Korea showed a high percentage in "Uses and Procedures of Tools" of "1. Knowing" and "Making Connections," "Comparison/Contrast/Classification," and "Uses of Models" of "2. Application." Finland recorded a high percentage in "Information Interpretation" of "2. Application." While South Korea focused on the uses and methods of scientific instruments during scientific activities, Finland made an approach with a focus on problems related to daily life such as the interpretation of information including reports and graphs from an interpretative perspective.

The Analysis of Comparison on the Material Area in the 6th and 7th National Curriculums초 3rd and 4th Grade Science Textbooks (제 6.7차 교육과정 초등학교 3.4학년 과학교과서 물질영역 비교 분석)

  • 이하룡;이석희;김용권
    • Journal of Korean Elementary Science Education
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.187-200
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    • 2002
  • The purpose of this study is to examine how well students can acquire scientific knowledge from the process and activity presented in the textbook. This is achieved by analysing of comparison on the material area in the 6th and 7th national curriculums' 3rd and 4th grade science textbooks. The method of this study is to analyse the contents, teacher's instruction and illustrations of the textbooks in the material area in both 6th and 7th national curriculum's 3rd and 4th grade science textbooks. Following is the result of the study. First, compared to the 6th national curriculum's content. 7th national curriculum is composed by phenomenon and activity focused. This considers student's developmental stages and abilities of concentration so one topic in the textbook is divided into 16 small contents. Therefore the textbook content of the 7th curriculum seems to have desirable changes. Secondly, teacher's instruction in the textbook of the 7th curriculum has impartial distribution in part Ⅰ and part Ⅱ according to Homey's analysis. This shows that some problems of writing textbooks that were pointed in the 6th curriculum have been improved. Thirdly, the content of the textbook emphasizes inquiry process as the 6th curriculum did. The 7th curriculum, however, more deeply deals with expecting and inferring. Finally, the analysis of illustration shows that the proportion of motive induction is high. This is also desirable approach to give students more interests in studying science.

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A Study on Computer Education Curriculum in Middle School for Computer Science Education (컴퓨터과학교육을 위한 중학교 컴퓨터교육과정 연구)

  • Park, Jung-Ho;Lee, Jae-Woon;Lee, Tae-Wuk
    • The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.37-45
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    • 2006
  • Computer education currently executed at middle schools showed problems of system of education curriculum, repetition, and lack of consistent system as a result of analyzing index for information and communication technology curriculum, and related literatures, and most of the education contents have difficulty to nurture logic thinking and problem-solving ability since they are composed mainly of software function learning. Concerning this issue, this study suggests an innovated computer education curriculum with reinforced information ethics field with computer principle, algorithm, and programming, in other words, a corrected and supplemented version of former content system based on computer science guidance cases of ACM computer science curriculum model of USA, computer science curriculum of Florida state, and Unplugged Project(http://www.unplugged.canterbury.ac.nz) judging that introduction of computer science factors are desperate to improve computer education curriculum in middle schools.

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Evaluation of Necessity of Clinical Nutrition Education in the Medical School Curriculum (의과대학 교육과정중 임상영양교육의 필요성 평가)

  • 장현숙;권정숙
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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    • v.25 no.3
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    • pp.415-422
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    • 1996
  • This study was conducted to evaluate the necessity of clinical nutrition education in the medical school curriculum. One hundred and eighty five medical school students, residents, nurses, and forty undergraduate students majoring in food science and nutrition were involved in this study. The survey included questions about nutritional knowledge, necessity of nutrition counseling, necessity of clinical nutrition and nutritional attitudes. The nutritional knowledge scores of the subjects in medical school and residents were significantly lower than those of the students majoring in food science and nutrition. Subjects of 91.3% strongly agreed to the necessity of nutrition counseling for patients ; 78.9% agreed that the present nutrition education in medical schools was inadequate. Most subjects (94.1%) agreed that clinical nutrition was an important field in the treatment of diseases. The medical profession is facing the challenges of the 1990s with the shift to outpatient care and preventative services. Clinical nutrition is an essential element in the process of curriculum change. The nutrition educator will be expected to take a leading role in integrating clinical nutrition into medical school curriculum.

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Pre-service Elementary School Teacher's Perception of Science Curriculum Use in Korea and Japan (한국과 일본의 초등 예비 교사의 과학과 교육 과정 운영에 대한 인식 비교 연구)

  • Kim, Jae-Young
    • Journal of Korean Elementary Science Education
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    • v.28 no.4
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    • pp.373-381
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    • 2009
  • This study investigated pre-service elementary school teacher's perception of science curriculum use in Korea and Japan. Ninety four pre-service elementary teachers in Korea and fifty three pre-service elementary teachers in Japan are participated in this study. As the result, four patterns were revealed. First, science isn't perceived as an important or interesting subject by the pre-service elementary teachers in both countries. Second, the perception of Korean pre-service teachers about the objectives of science subject is relatively negative. Third, in the case of Korea, the perception about the effectiveness of science subject content and level, and the amount of learning is shown to be more negative than those of Japan. Finally, in both countries, the science majors and the non-science majors have negative perceptions about the inclusion of the perspectives and methods of assessment and the preparation of teaching and learning plan in curriculum.

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A Study on Development of Science Education Modules (과학교육 모듈 개발 방안에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Wha-Kuk;Kim, Chang-Shik
    • Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.25-37
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    • 1990
  • Development of science education curriculum and instructional materials have been considered as the matt essential task for the establishment of scince education as an independent discipline, and for the intrenchment of status and identity of colles of Education The aim of this study was to identify the necessity and types for the development of science education curriculum and instructional materials. The nature and structure of science education were discussed in connection with school science subjects, science of education, and the structure of science education system. Also essential theory and practice of modular approach for development of curriculum were investigated in order to organize a guideline for the development of scince education modules. The guideline includes development procedures, major contents. and structure of science education modules which is organized by integration of the nature of scince education and concepts of modular approach for curriculum development.

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An Analysis on the Curriculum for the Classes of Elementary Science Gifted in Incheon (인천지역 초등과학영재학급의 교육과정 운영실태 분석)

  • 김은주;최선영;강호감
    • Journal of Korean Elementary Science Education
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    • v.23 no.3
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    • pp.192-198
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    • 2004
  • The purpose of this study was to analysis the curriculum for educating and operating the classes of elementary science gifted in Incheon Metropolitan Office of Education. We developed the framework for curriculum content analysis based on the principles of curriculum development for gifted education. The developed framework was applied to the curricula of four classes of elementary science gifted in Incheon. And the needs of gifted students were surveyed in the classes of the elementary science gifted. The results of this study were as follows: 1. The current curriculums of two classes described the goal of the elementary gifted education, but the content and theme of the curricula of three classes were not related to the contents of the 7th national curriculum. 2. The teaching methods used in the science gifted class were mainly a lecture and an experimental activity. and there was little the process of individual instruction. 3. There was not mostly the products as the results of learning because of little performed by a project teaming, an announcement and an exhibition in gifted class. 4. Most of the students of the science gifted class were estimated by the paper tests and observation of the teacher in charge of the gifted class, not by the products and presentation etc. 5. They mostly preferred the theme of everyday life in addition to the textbook, and the instructional type of enrichment teaming and acceleration learning over the grade of themselves. 6. They mainly expected that the curriculum of the gifted class is operated during the semester.

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A Study on Curriculum for Problem Solving Field in the Computer Science of Elementary School (초등학교 컴퓨터과학 교육과정 '문제 해결' 영역 개선에 관한 연구)

  • Jeong, InKee
    • The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.17-26
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    • 2007
  • Since 2001, we have taught computer in elementary school to become the advanced country of IT in the 21C. However, it is criticized that the contents of information literacy curriculum are weak because they are not the computer science but mainly the computer skills. In 2005, "ICT Education Guide Revision" is published. Thereafter, the curriculum has systematic frame because of the addition of the contents of computer science. However, the curriculum for improving the ability of problem solving which is one of the abilities of human in the information society is somewhat defective. Therefore, in this paper I analysed the curriculums of problem solving field in elementary school level of some countries and proposed the revised curriculum of problem solving field of elementary computer science course.

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A Study on the Planning Science Laboratory of Middle and High School Considering the 7th Education Curriculum -Focusing on Analysing Educational Curriculum- (7차 교육 과정에 따른 중·고등학교 과학실 구성에 관한 연구 - 교과 과정 분석을 중심으로 -)

  • Chung, Ho-Keun;Lee, Ho-Chin
    • The Journal of Sustainable Design and Educational Environment Research
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.1-21
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    • 2003
  • This study will focus on analysing changes in subject content, teaching and learning methods, teaching model, and evaluation which have been brought about by the introduction of the 7th education curriculum, and on considering how many kinds of science labs are needed, and on proposing the desirable direction of building them. Methods for studying the goals above are as follows: First, considerations were given on how science labs must be structured and on which equipment are needed, which were done by analysing change of science education for future society, science subjects in the 7th educational curriculum, current situation of science labs, and science educational materials. Second, based on the need of students, it was examined how many science classes were needed, and through this the number of labs needed and users' requirement were analysed. Third, on the basis of the analysis above, existing conditions in planning science labs and the example of existing labs were examined.

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