• 응용통계연구
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• 제32권4호
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• pp.485-502
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• 2019

이론통계학은 통계학의 원리를 수학을 이용하여 배우는 교과목이다. 학생들이 수학을 충분히 알지 못하는 경우 이론통계학 교육을 통해 통계학의 원리를 이해하는 데에는 제약이 있다. 이론통계학 교육을 통해 통계학의 원리에 대한 이해를 높이기 위해 수학적 문제풀이 외에 R 프로그램을 이용한 통계 시뮬레이션이 보조적으로 도입되어 왔지만 수학을 이용한 문제풀이를 대신하지는 못하고 있다. 이 논문에서는 wxMaxima, Wolfram Alpha 등 기호 수학 연산이 가능한 수학 소프트웨어 CAS를 소개하고, 이를 이용하여 이론통계학 교육에 걸림돌이 되는 수학의 어려움에서 벗어나 통계학의 원리 자체를 학습할 수 있는 방안을 모색하였다.

• Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.5-18
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• 2014

This exploratory study investigates the use of a computational knowledge engine (WolframAlpha) and social networking sites (Gmail, Yahoo and Facebook) by 200 students at De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde, their "friends" and their "friends of friends" during the 2009 through 2013 school years, and how this appears to have added value in knowledge generation. The primary aim is to identify what enhances productiveness in knowledge generation in Philippine Tertiary Education. The phenomenological approach is used, therefore there are no specific research questions or hypotheses proposed in this paper. Considering that knowledge generation is a complex phenomenon, a stochastic modelling approach is also used for the investigation that was developed specifically to study un-deterministic complex systems. A list of salient features for knowledge generation is presented as a result. In addition to these features, various problem types are identified from literature. These are then integrated to provide a proposed framework of inclusive (friendly) and innovative social networks, for knowledge generation in Philippine tertiary education. Such a framework is necessarily multidisciplinary and useful for problem-solving in a globalized and pluralist reality. The implementation of this framework is illustrated in the three parts of the study: Part 1: Online lessons, discussions, and examinations in General Psychology, Introduction to Sociology, and Life and Works of Jose Rizal, for the author's students in De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde; Part 2: Facebook Report analytics of students and teachers, their friends and their friends of friends via WolframAlpha; and Part 3: Social Network Analysis of the people and groups influencing the courses' scope-and-sequence in the new General Education Curriculum for Tertiary Schools and Institutions in the Philippines.