• Research in Mathematical Education
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.99-118
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• 2013

The present study focuses on the contribution of a teaching unit to the development of spatial ability of third graders in general and from a gender point of view in particular. The research population consisted of seventy-four pupils: thirty-seven pupils in the experimental group who attended the teaching unit and thirty-seven pupils in the control group. The spatial ability of all the pupils was examined by means of common tests which checked cognitive capabilities of spatial ability. The research findings illustrate an improvement in the spatial ability of the experimental group pupils following the participation in the teaching unit. Moreover, regarding the gender aspect, the findings show that there was no significant differentiation between the spatial ability of third grade boys and the spatial ability of girls of the same age group.

• English Language & Literature Teaching
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.159-180
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• 2007

The present study proposes a set of activities of teaching English reading through English newspapers to narrow the gap between the English required in authentic situation and the one taught in schools. Newspapers can provide students with opportunities to review what they have studied in the classes. The purpose of this study is, therefore, to investigate how extra-curricular activities using English newspapers have an influence on the development of the three low-achieving high school students' English reading ability. The five-month study yielded that the activities using English newspapers exerted positive effects on the students' interest in English and their English scores. It suggests that using English newspapers as teaching materials may be a desirable way both to motivate students to study English harder and to develop their English reading ability.

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.35 no.6
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• pp.173-189
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• 1997

The purpose of this study was to investigate housewives'time use and satisfaction with it and analyze the factors affection these. Subjects were 222 housewives with pre-and elementary school children. The data were analyzed by mean, standard deviation, X-test, t-test, ANOVA and Duncan's multiple range test. The results of this study were as follows : 1) Housewives spent over 1/3 of time on physical care(sleeping.. etc.). 2)The use of time by housewives was mainly influenced by husband's status and children's state(age, the number of extra curricular hours, educational level) 3) The satisfaction with time use was affected by first child's age, husband's age, husband's educational level, wives's educational level, and household income.

• Research in Mathematical Education
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.1-28
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• 2002

This study explored teachers (n = 219) from northern, central, southern and eastern Taiwan concerning their views about children's learning difficulties, mathematical instruction and school mathematics curricular. Results showed that teachers' mathematics knowledge or their instruction methods had no significant influence on their views of children's learning difficulties. Even though teachers indicated that understanding of abstract mathematical concepts was the most prominent difficulty for children, they tended to employ direct instruction rather than constructive and cooperative problem solving in their teaching. However, teachers' views of children's learning difficulties did influence their instructional practice. Results from in-dept interviews revealed that there were some obstacles that prevented teachers from putting constructiveism perspectives of instruction into teaching practice. Further investigation is needed to develop a better understanding of epistemology and teaming psychology as well as to help teachers create constructive learning situations.

• Research in Mathematical Education
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.87-100
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• 2007

This paper is intended to document the development of the Mathematics across the Curriculum (MAC) movement, following a mathematics problem solving model. Of course, just as new, related problems often arise after we have completed the solution of a current mathematics problem, so too, many questions remain regarding the future of MAC. Although preliminary assessments have been favorable, no broad-based evaluation of the impact of MAC has been conducted. To what extent has the promise of increased student understanding of mathematics and its connections to other disciplines been realized? What can be done to overcome logistical obstacles preventing instructors from working together in real schools settings? Are changes in institutional culture and relationships among academics merely transitory? Is the development of a strong base of curricular materials forthcoming? In other words, will MAC reach a level of educational permanence, or ultimately be discarded as another interesting, but unmanageable instructional fad?

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.38 no.3
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• pp.91-115
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• 2007

This research has been done to evaluate a curricular model for the information literacy course and verify its effectiveness in a regular class. The pretest and the post-test which comprised the same 47 questions were executed to 135 students in an information literacy-related course. On the basis of the results, some general conclusions and suggestions for improving the quality of information literacy course were made.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.108-137
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• 1990

The purpose of this paper is to compare the library and information education system in Ost-and West Germany. Toward this purpose, first, the historical beginning of library education is intraduced, secondly, library education system after the year of 1879 is descriebed along with theoretical foundation. Thirdly, seperated library education of the public librarian and academic librarian in Germany before and after the I. II World War was descirebed in context with historical and theoretical background and finnaly, in the modern information society. the library and information education of the seperated Ost-and West Germany is descriebed with their curricular.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.30 no.3
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• pp.151-174
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• 1999

Recently, the Ministry of Education is striving to move education and school libraries toward the information age and to create an atmosphere open education. School libraries need to be furnished with lots of useful materials for the curriculum of open education. School libraries need to be furnished with lots of useful materials for the curriculum of open education. Therefore, school libraries should adopt the concepts and techniques of marketing. The results of this study can be summarized as follows. 1. Nonprofit organizations such as school libraries should adopt the concepts and techniques of marketing to solve the problems for the rational management of the system. 2. Marketing techniques can be adopted in the areas such as collection development, service fee, selection of the place of library, advertising, better library user organization etc. 3. School libraries should be total educational information centers to realize educational goal and the curricular. 4. Procedures for marketing strategies for school libraries are embodied in mission statement, environmental analysis, marketing audit, marketing mix, marketing segmentation, evaluation methods etc. 5. The 4 "Ps", product, price, place, promotion make up the marketing mix for school libraries.libraries.

• Journal of the Speleological Society of Korea
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• no.75
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• pp.55-64
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• 2006

The extension of development and originality of the ability which is various leads and studying voluntary character and the ability back the education which it considers actively it raises and the infield it does. With activation plan of cave resources home page of Speleological Society of Korean like home page of Speleological Society of Japan cave crane information, caving information, cave Q/A, cave publication, the relation site back the possibility of seeing information regarding the cave which is various in order to be, it reorganizes. The possibility of coming in contact in order to be, various branch information also the general rain specialist regarding the cave resources. Currently the Possibility of seeing the various branch data for the application of the cave resources at any time it is, home page of Speleological Society of Korean the possibility of doing to lead in order to be, it proposes the plan. From one person it will be able to study the data regarding the cave of various field in order, all curricular materials regarding the cave resources the educational program which leads a home page about under developing it proposes the activation plan of the cave resources.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.53-60
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• 1978

The aims of this study are to find the evel of the conception of 'Water Displacement', and to suggest some educational impications from the findings of the study. The result are as follows; Firstly, About 20% of 12 year children among the subjects of this study are aware of the conception of Water Displacement' which is lower than the finding of the study conducted by J. Piaget and Elkind. Secondarly. Most of the subjects in this study are in the transitional level, so this finding suggests that curricular developers should provide the material needed for the educational activities to make children develop the conception of 'Water Displacement'.