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Human Tutoring vs. Teachable Agent Tutoring: The Effectiveness of "Learning by Teaching" in TA Program on Cognition and Motivation

  • Lim, Ka-Ram;So, Yeon-Hee;Han, Cheon-Woo;Hwang, Su-Young;Ryu, Ki-Gon;Shin, Mo-Ran;Kim, Sung-Il
    • 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2006.02a
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    • pp.945-953
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    • 2006
  • The researchers in the field of cognitive science and learning science suggest that the teaching activity induces the elaborative and meaningful learning. Actually, lots of research findings have shown the beneficial effect of learning by teaching such as peer tutoring. But peer tutoring has some limitations in the practical learning context. To overcome some limitations, the new concept of "learning by teaching" through the agent called Teachable Agent. The teachable agent is a modified version of traditional intelligent tutoring system that assigns a role of tutor to teach the agent. The teachable agent monitors individual difference and provides a student with a chance for deep learning and motivation to learn by allowing them to play an active role in the process of learning. That is, The teaching activity induces the elaborative and meaningful learning. This study compared the effects of our teachable agent, KORI, and peer tutoring on the cognition and motivation. The field experiment was conducted to examine whether learning by teaching the teachable agent would be more effective than peer tutoring and reading condition. In the experiment, all participants took 30 minutes lesson on rock and rock cycle together to acquire the base knowledge in the domain. After the lesson, participants were randomly assigned to one of the three experimental conditions; reading condition, peer tutoring condition, and teachable agent condition. Next, participants of each condition moved into separated place and performed their own learning activity. After finishing all of the learning activities in each condition, all participants were instructed to rate the interestingness using a 5-point scale on their own learning activity and leaning material, and were given the comprehension test. The results indicated that the teachable agent condition and the peer tutoring condition showed more interests in the learning than the reading condition. It is suggested that teachable agent has more advantages in overcoming the several practical limitations of peer tutoring such as restrictions in time and place, tutor's cognitive burden, unnecessary interaction during peer tutoring. The applicability and prospects of the teachable agent as an efficient substitute for peer tutoring and traditional intelligent tutoring system were also discussed.

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Teaching learning-based optimization for design of cantilever retaining walls

  • Temur, Rasim;Bekdas, Gebrail
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.57 no.4
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    • pp.763-783
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    • 2016
  • A methodology based on Teaching Learning-Based Optimization (TLBO) algorithm is proposed for optimum design of reinforced concrete retaining walls. The objective function is to minimize total material cost including concrete and steel per unit length of the retaining walls. The requirements of the American Concrete Institute (ACI 318-05-Building code requirements for structural concrete) are considered for reinforced concrete (RC) design. During the optimization process, totally twenty-nine design constraints composed from stability, flexural moment capacity, shear strength capacity and RC design requirements such as minimum and maximum reinforcement ratio, development length of reinforcement are checked. Comparing to other nature-inspired algorithm, TLBO is a simple algorithm without parameters entered by users and self-adjusting ranges without intervention of users. In numerical examples, a retaining wall taken from the documented researches is optimized and the several effects (backfill slope angle, internal friction angle of retaining soil and surcharge load) on the optimum results are also investigated in the study. As a conclusion, TLBO based methods are feasible.

Developing Teaching and Learning Materials for the Gifted Students Based upon a Creative Output Related to Catalan Number (`카탈란수의 탐구`에 관련된 창의적 산출물 중심의 수학영재 교수-학습 자료의 개발)

  • Lee, Sang-Keun;Chung, Ki-Young
    • Communications of Mathematical Education
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    • v.21 no.1 s.29
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    • pp.65-79
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    • 2007
  • In this paper we study various aspects of Catalan number with its focus on creative output. As a result we we develop teaching and learning materials for the gifted students which can lead to creative output at the middle school level.

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The High School Common Science Textbook and Classes by the Point of Science Teacher's View (교사들에 의한 공통과학 교과서 평가와 수업내용 현황)

  • Kim, Sung-Won;Jin, Yoo-Jung
    • Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.405-413
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    • 1997
  • High school common science is introduced by the sixth national curriculum. It consists of physics, chemistry, biology and earth science like the secondary school science. In this paper, textbooks are analyzed by the science teachers and the status of the present teaching and learning methods is reported. The detailed results are as follows; 1. Almost high school teachers choose textbook that included little the STS material. More than two teachers are teaching the high school common science and when they are chosen, they are independent with their major. 2. According to the national curriculum, they evaluated the textbooks as it is below the middle level. This evaluations are not dependent on teachers' comparement and textbook's class except the several matters based on STS (science-technology-society). 3. The teacher teaching the high school common science thought that teaching the textbook in school is worse than analysizing it. they must have emphasised on learning of inquire method than system of knowledge, introduction to material connected with real life and STS in the high school common science.

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Development and Application of Teaching Materials for the Gifted and Talented Students in Elementary Science: Focused on Microscope (초등과학 영재교육 프로그램 개발 및 적용의 한 방안: 현미경을 중심으로)

  • 홍승호
    • Journal of Korean Elementary Science Education
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    • v.23 no.4
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    • pp.279-286
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    • 2004
  • The purpose of this study is to develop and apply effective teaching strategies and program for the gifted-in-science. The teaching material for the gifted students was focussed on microscope. This study consists of three steps according to the enrichment triad model of Renzulli. Firstly, the gifted students investigate and express themselves for theological backgrounds, for examples, kinds, structure and use in various ways of microscope. It is to provide basic data for the effective ideas and interest which help students have the appropriate microscopic conceptions. In the second step, it contains understanding of a term and function of microscope, making of simple microscope, principle of a statue focusing and size estimation of an outline of subjects by scientific investigation activity. Lastly, it focussed on enlargement of post-learning through investigation of relationship with inter-science and experiments using microscope. Therefore, it was concluded that this study may help teachers reconsider scientific program development for the gifted or enriched students and to be successful in the teaching-learning processes.

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MULTIDIMENSIONAL TEACHING: THOUGHTFUL WAYS OF CREATING A FLIPPED CLASSROOM

  • Cho, Hoyun;Osborne, Carolyn;Sanders, Tobie;Park, KyungEun
    • Korean Journal of Mathematics
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.93-114
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    • 2015
  • The "flipped" or "inverted" classroom, in which students study lecture-type material at home and do their "homework" in the classroom, has been the subject of research, particularly in the area of student achievement. Yet Bishop and Verleger (2013) state the need for an underlying theory to the practice. The purpose of this paper is to explore "multidimensional teaching," the authors' extension of the two-dimensional "flipped" classroom concept in light of Cambourne's (1995) Conditions for Learning. One author's math class for pre-service teachers was taught in two styles, a more traditional lecture format and in the \inverted" format. Students in the "flipped" format achieved at a higher level. Moreover, students' open-ended comments reveal that Cambourne's Conditions for Learning were implicit to the teaching practice. The authors suggest that practitioners of this style of teaching should deliberately develop student-centered practices, such as those mentioned by Cambourne, in order to retain the power that this teaching style currently has.

The Effect of CAI Program on the Learning Achievement in Mathematics -Focusing on the lesson statistics in the 3rd grade of middle school- (CAI 프로그램의 활용이 학업성취에 미치는 영향 - 중3 통계단원을 중심으로 -)

  • 이재국
    • Journal of the Korean School Mathematics Society
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.123-131
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    • 2000
  • In order to educate future leaders of the new age, we should help students to increase their basic knowledge, thinking and problem solving ability. It is necessary that we should use multi-media, computer as well as old teaching-learning material to improve students' basic knowledge and to motivate their interest in mathematics in the small-sized Middle School situated on the agricultural and fishery village. In solving this problem, it is ultimately necessary that we should utilize CAI program on the learning achievement in mathematics for the students to understand basic concept, principle, law and to promote teaching-learning process considered on individual different abilities. Therefore, this study is on the effect of students' interest and learning achievement in mathematics when we develop CAI program focusing on the lesson statistics in the 3rd Grade Middle School Mathematics Textbook and explain the concept and principle of statistics through using exact and various techniques of computers

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Development of Teaching and Learning Mathematical Materials Including Cross-Curriculum Based Contents (범교과적 학습 내용을 수반하는 수학과 교수-학습 자료 - 원자력 에너지를 중심으로 -)

  • 황혜정;조성민
    • The Mathematical Education
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    • v.41 no.1
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    • pp.19-34
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    • 2002
  • The 7th national mathematics curriculum lays emphasis on an interrelation of several subjects and a connection between mathematics and real life. In this reason, this study focuses on the enhancement of sound understanding nuclear energy which is one of important factor(concepts or contents) dealt with in the other subjects such as science, environment, social studies, etc.. Recently, even though it is insistent that nuclear energy be so important and request in the future society, there are still strong pro and cons regarding the use of it. In this study, teaching-and-learning materials were developed dealing with using nuclear energy, and consequently they might be used in math class for the purpose of enhancement of mathematical learning ability and of recognition on nuclear energy. In this study, Material 1 included a matter of the necessity for nuclear power plants using the ratio concept, and Material 2 did on a matter of the efficiency of nuclear energy and the unclear of nuclear power plants using ratio-graph, in the elementary and upper school mathematics. Material 3 focused on a matter of the principles of nuclear power plants using the properties of exponential law in high school mathematics. Ultimately, it is hoped in the study that more diverse instructional materials dealing with diverse situations inside and outside mathematics would be developed.

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The Effects of Learning When We Use "Swatch" as Studying Material in Economics Class of Highschool Curriculum - Centered on "Cloth" Contents in Highschool Home Economics Class - (고등학교 가정교과에서 옷감실물을 학습자료로 활용한 경우의 학습효과 - 고등학교 가정 교과 "옷감"내용을 중심으로 -)

  • 이순희;김병미
    • Journal of Korean Home Economics Education Association
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.15-24
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    • 2001
  • The purpose of this study is to find out practical teaching material about$\boxdr$Cloth$\boxul$part of home economics course in highschool and prove it's effect on learning as the result of applying to teaching and learning activities. The objects of this study were 144 first grade students of Puyo girl's high school located in Puyo county of Chung-nam province. They were identified to have the same quality through such inspections as intelligence quotient and previous scholastic ability test. Experiment group is composed of 72 students of two class in first grade and those students utilized swatch. Controlled group is also made up of 72 students like experiment group and they didn't use swatch. The procedure of this study was as follows : First we collected the real clothing material which was necessary in $\boxdr$Cloth$\boxul$part of high school home economics and made teaching plan that could be used to make use of swatch. In this study. we first seek the averages and variations to know how much is the influence of using real things as the studying materials on the class. Then we verified the level of attention to compare and the level of student's schoolwork accomplishment. interest and attitude between experiment group that used the swatch and controlled group who didn't use those material. The result of this study are as follow : 1) After using swatch. students'attitude toward receiving information was getting better. 2) Students'interest toward$\boxdr$Cloth$\boxul$part was getting higher. 3) Scholastic accomplishment of experimental group became higher than that of controlled group.

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Development of Teaching and Learning Materials for Elementary School Teachers to Foster Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Mathematics (초등 교사의 수학과 교수법적 내용 지식 정립을 위한 교수.학습 자료 개발)

  • Pang, Jeong-Suk;Kim, Sang-Hwa
    • Journal of the Korean School Mathematics Society
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.129-148
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    • 2007
  • Recent reform movement in mathematics education has focused not only on the curriculum development but also on teachers' learning or professional development. Whereas various theoretical paradigms call for different programs of professional development for teachers, one of the common emphases is on the pedagogical content knowledge [PCK] which encompasses contents and methods to teach. Against this background, this study developed comprehensive instructional materials for the purpose of fostering PCK in mathematics for elementary school teachers with 17 essential learning themes such as fraction, plane geometry, and area. Each loaming theme was first summarized on the basis of literature reviews and surveys in terms of knowledge in mathematics contents, knowledge in teaching methods, and knowledge in students' mathematical understanding and learning. Each theme was then analyzed in detail on how it was represented in the national curriculum and its concomitant textbooks along with workbooks. Finally, this report included a reconstruction of one unit in textbooks per each learning theme, followed by teaching notes and suggestions from classroom implementation. This was intended for teachers to apply what they might loam from this material to their actual mathematics instruction. Given the page limit, this paper dealt only with the learning theme of ratio.

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