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유튜브의 개인화 알고리즘이 유도하는 적극이용 경로에 대한 실증분석 (An Empirical Analysis of the Active Use Paths induced by YouTube's Personalization Algorithm)

  • 배승주
    • 한국산업정보학회논문지
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    • 제28권2호
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    • pp.31-45
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    • 2023
  • 본 연구는 유튜브 이용자의 사용 시간이 양적으로 증대하면서 나타나는 질적 단계와 경로에 주목하였다. 그리고 심리학과 신경과학의 이론을 적용하여 추천시스템의 개인화 알고리즘과 적극이용의 구간을 세분화하였고, 이론연구와 실증연구를 병행하였다. 이론연구에서 심리학과 신경과학의 관점으로 포그의 행동모델(FBM), 가변적 보상, 도파민 중독을 적용하였다. 포그의 행동모델(FBM)은 연관 콘텐츠 제시 기능인 개인화 추천 알고리즘이 트리거(계기)로서 쉬운 클릭을 유발하고, 가변적 보상은 검색하는 콘텐츠에 대한 예측불가능성으로 동기부여의 효과성을 높이며, 도파민 중독은 도파민 신경을 자극하면 지속적 적극적으로 콘텐츠를 소비하게 하는 것으로 요약된다. 본 연구는 개인화 추천 알고리즘과 적극이용 구간에서 콘텐츠의 이용 목적을 심리적 측면에서 처음이용, 재이용, 지속이용, 적극이용의 4단계로 구분하고, 경로를 분석하였다는 점에서 학문적 실무적 기여를 할 것으로 기대한다.

textNAS의 다변수 시계열 데이터로의 적용 및 손동작 인식 (TextNAS Application to Multivariate Time Series Data and Hand Gesture Recognition)

  • 김기덕;김미숙;이학만
    • 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국정보통신학회 2021년도 추계학술대회
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    • pp.518-520
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    • 2021
  • 본 논문에서는 텍스트 분류에 사용된 textNAS를 다변수 시계열 데이터에 적용 가능하도록 수정하여 이를 통한 손동작 인식 방법을 제안한다. 이를 사용하면 다변수 시계열 데이터 분류를 통한 행동 인식, 감정 인식, 손동작 인식 등 다양한 분야에 적용 가능하다. 그리고 분류에 적합한 딥러닝 모델을 학습을 통해 자동으로 찾아줘 사용자의 부담을 덜어주며 높은 성능의 클래스 분류 정확도를 얻을 수 있다. 손동작 인식 데이터셋인 DHG-14/28과 Shrec'17 데이터셋에 제안한 방법을 적용하여 기존의 모델보다 높은 클래스 분류 정확도를 얻을 수 있었다. 분류 정확도는 DHG-14/28의 경우 98.72%, 98.16%, Shrec'17 14 class/28 class는 97.82%, 98.39%를 얻었다.

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인문학자의 전자정보원 이용행태에 관한 연구 (Research on the Usage of Electronic Information Resources of the Humanities Scholars in Korea)

  • 윤정옥
    • 한국문헌정보학회지
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    • 제43권2호
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    • pp.5-28
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    • 2009
  • 이 연구의 목적은 우리나라 인문학자들의 전자정보원 이용행태를 포괄적으로 분석하고, 이를 근거로 대학도서관들이 서비스를 제공할 수 있는 방안을 제안하는 것이다. 이 연구를 위해 스물다섯 개 대학 소속 인문학 분야 교수 중 799명을 표본으로 확정한 후, 2007년 11월부터 2008년 1월 사이 우편 서베이를 실시하여, 모두 132개의 분석 가능한 설문을 수집하였다. 응답자들은 대체로 연구와 교육에 균등한 시간을 배분하며, 주로 단독연구를 수행하는 독자적 연구자들이다. 이들은 지난 일 년 간 수행한 연구를 위해 어느 정도 전자자원을 이용하였고, 대학도서관 전자 컬렉션을 정보원으로 사용하였으며, 대부분 텍스트형태의 전자자원에 의존하였다. 이들이 정기적으로 이용하는 전자정보원은 학술논문 입수 정보원을 제외하고는 개별 연구자마다 상이하여 분산되어 있었다. 인문학자들은 전자정보원의 접근과 이용편이성 등을 높이 평가하였으나, 내용의 제한 및 품질 등 문제점을 지적하였으며, 대체로 자신의 전자정보원 이용 및 검색 능력 등을 긍정적으로 평가하고 있었다. 여기에서는 대학도서관은 인문학자들을 위해 (1) 대학도서관 웹사이트의 주요한 내 외부 전자자원의 관문 역할 수행, (2) 진정한 전자자원의 관문으로서 단일경로 접근 및 통합검색 방법 제공, 및 (3) 도서관 내외부 전자자원 활용을 위한 "맞춤형" 이용교육 강화가 필요함을 제안하였다.

A Study on the Meaning and Strategy of Keyword Advertising Marketing

  • Park, Nam Goo
    • 유통과학연구
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    • 제8권3호
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    • pp.49-56
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    • 2010
  • At the initial stage of Internet advertising, banner advertising came into fashion. As the Internet developed into a central part of daily lives and the competition in the on-line advertising market was getting fierce, there was not enough space for banner advertising, which rushed to portal sites only. All these factors was responsible for an upsurge in advertising prices. Consequently, the high-cost and low-efficiency problems with banner advertising were raised, which led to an emergence of keyword advertising as a new type of Internet advertising to replace its predecessor. In the beginning of 2000s, when Internet advertising came to be activated, display advertisement including banner advertising dominated the Net. However, display advertising showed signs of gradual decline, and registered minus growth in the year 2009, whereas keyword advertising showed rapid growth and started to outdo display advertising as of the year 2005. Keyword advertising refers to the advertising technique that exposes relevant advertisements on the top of research sites when one searches for a keyword. Instead of exposing advertisements to unspecified individuals like banner advertising, keyword advertising, or targeted advertising technique, shows advertisements only when customers search for a desired keyword so that only highly prospective customers are given a chance to see them. In this context, it is also referred to as search advertising. It is regarded as more aggressive advertising with a high hit rate than previous advertising in that, instead of the seller discovering customers and running an advertisement for them like TV, radios or banner advertising, it exposes advertisements to visiting customers. Keyword advertising makes it possible for a company to seek publicity on line simply by making use of a single word and to achieve a maximum of efficiency at a minimum cost. The strong point of keyword advertising is that customers are allowed to directly contact the products in question through its more efficient advertising when compared to the advertisements of mass media such as TV and radio, etc. The weak point of keyword advertising is that a company should have its advertisement registered on each and every portal site and finds it hard to exercise substantial supervision over its advertisement, there being a possibility of its advertising expenses exceeding its profits. Keyword advertising severs as the most appropriate methods of advertising for the sales and publicity of small and medium enterprises which are in need of a maximum of advertising effect at a low advertising cost. At present, keyword advertising is divided into CPC advertising and CPM advertising. The former is known as the most efficient technique, which is also referred to as advertising based on the meter rate system; A company is supposed to pay for the number of clicks on a searched keyword which users have searched. This is representatively adopted by Overture, Google's Adwords, Naver's Clickchoice, and Daum's Clicks, etc. CPM advertising is dependent upon the flat rate payment system, making a company pay for its advertisement on the basis of the number of exposure, not on the basis of the number of clicks. This method fixes a price for advertisement on the basis of 1,000-time exposure, and is mainly adopted by Naver's Timechoice, Daum's Speciallink, and Nate's Speedup, etc, At present, the CPC method is most frequently adopted. The weak point of the CPC method is that advertising cost can rise through constant clicks from the same IP. If a company makes good use of strategies for maximizing the strong points of keyword advertising and complementing its weak points, it is highly likely to turn its visitors into prospective customers. Accordingly, an advertiser should make an analysis of customers' behavior and approach them in a variety of ways, trying hard to find out what they want. With this in mind, her or she has to put multiple keywords into use when running for ads. When he or she first runs an ad, he or she should first give priority to which keyword to select. The advertiser should consider how many individuals using a search engine will click the keyword in question and how much money he or she has to pay for the advertisement. As the popular keywords that the users of search engines are frequently using are expensive in terms of a unit cost per click, the advertisers without much money for advertising at the initial phrase should pay attention to detailed keywords suitable to their budget. Detailed keywords are also referred to as peripheral keywords or extension keywords, which can be called a combination of major keywords. Most keywords are in the form of texts. The biggest strong point of text-based advertising is that it looks like search results, causing little antipathy to it. But it fails to attract much attention because of the fact that most keyword advertising is in the form of texts. Image-embedded advertising is easy to notice due to images, but it is exposed on the lower part of a web page and regarded as an advertisement, which leads to a low click through rate. However, its strong point is that its prices are lower than those of text-based advertising. If a company owns a logo or a product that is easy enough for people to recognize, the company is well advised to make good use of image-embedded advertising so as to attract Internet users' attention. Advertisers should make an analysis of their logos and examine customers' responses based on the events of sites in question and the composition of products as a vehicle for monitoring their behavior in detail. Besides, keyword advertising allows them to analyze the advertising effects of exposed keywords through the analysis of logos. The logo analysis refers to a close analysis of the current situation of a site by making an analysis of information about visitors on the basis of the analysis of the number of visitors and page view, and that of cookie values. It is in the log files generated through each Web server that a user's IP, used pages, the time when he or she uses it, and cookie values are stored. The log files contain a huge amount of data. As it is almost impossible to make a direct analysis of these log files, one is supposed to make an analysis of them by using solutions for a log analysis. The generic information that can be extracted from tools for each logo analysis includes the number of viewing the total pages, the number of average page view per day, the number of basic page view, the number of page view per visit, the total number of hits, the number of average hits per day, the number of hits per visit, the number of visits, the number of average visits per day, the net number of visitors, average visitors per day, one-time visitors, visitors who have come more than twice, and average using hours, etc. These sites are deemed to be useful for utilizing data for the analysis of the situation and current status of rival companies as well as benchmarking. As keyword advertising exposes advertisements exclusively on search-result pages, competition among advertisers attempting to preoccupy popular keywords is very fierce. Some portal sites keep on giving priority to the existing advertisers, whereas others provide chances to purchase keywords in question to all the advertisers after the advertising contract is over. If an advertiser tries to rely on keywords sensitive to seasons and timeliness in case of sites providing priority to the established advertisers, he or she may as well make a purchase of a vacant place for advertising lest he or she should miss appropriate timing for advertising. However, Naver doesn't provide priority to the existing advertisers as far as all the keyword advertisements are concerned. In this case, one can preoccupy keywords if he or she enters into a contract after confirming the contract period for advertising. This study is designed to take a look at marketing for keyword advertising and to present effective strategies for keyword advertising marketing. At present, the Korean CPC advertising market is virtually monopolized by Overture. Its strong points are that Overture is based on the CPC charging model and that advertisements are registered on the top of the most representative portal sites in Korea. These advantages serve as the most appropriate medium for small and medium enterprises to use. However, the CPC method of Overture has its weak points, too. That is, the CPC method is not the only perfect advertising model among the search advertisements in the on-line market. So it is absolutely necessary that small and medium enterprises including independent shopping malls should complement the weaknesses of the CPC method and make good use of strategies for maximizing its strengths so as to increase their sales and to create a point of contact with customers.

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온라인 쇼핑에서 웹루밍으로의 쇼핑전환 의도에 영향을 미치는 요인에 대한 연구 (An Empirical Study on Influencing Factors of Switching Intention from Online Shopping to Webrooming)

  • 최현승;양성병
    • 지능정보연구
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    • 제22권1호
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    • pp.19-41
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    • 2016
  • 정보통신기술의 발전과 모바일 기기 사용의 생활화로 인해 최근 많은 소비자들이 멀티채널 쇼핑(multi-channel shopping)이라는 새로운 쇼핑 행태를 보이고 있다. 온라인 쇼핑이 등장한 이후, 온라인 매장에서 상품을 구매하기 전 오프라인 매장에서 상품을 먼저 확인하는 쇼루밍(showrooming) 형태의 멀티채널 쇼핑이 한 때 대세를 이루었으나, 최근에는 스마트폰, 태블릿 PC, 스마트워치 등 스마트 기기 사용의 폭발적 증가와 옴니채널(omni-channel) 전략으로 대표되는 오프라인 채널의 대대적 반격으로 인해 오프라인 매장에서 상품을 구매하기 전 온라인(혹은 모바일)으로 정보를 먼저 확인하는 웹루밍(webrooming) 현상이 도드라지게 나타나 온라인 소매업자를 위협하고 있다. 이러한 상황에서 소비자의 온라인 쇼핑에서 웹루밍으로의 쇼핑전환 의도에 영향을 미치는 요인을 분석하는 것이 의미가 있음에도 불구하고, 기존 대부분의 선행연구는 싱글채널(single-channel) 혹은 멀티채널 쇼핑 자체에만 초점을 맞추고 있다. 이에, 본 연구에서는 밀고-당기기-이주이론(push-pull-mooring theory)을 바탕으로 소비자의 온라인 채널 쇼핑이 웹루밍 형태의 쇼핑으로 전환되는 과정을 상품정보 탐색과 구매행위로 각각 구분하여 그 영향을 실증하였다. 연구모형을 검증하기 위하여, 웹루밍 경험이 있는 수도권 소재 대학생을 대상으로 280개의 설문 표본을 수집하였다. 본 연구의 결과는 현업 마케팅 종사자에게 멀티채널 소비자들을 관리하는 데 있어 실무적인 시사점을 제공함과 동시에, 향후 다양한 형태의 멀티채널 쇼핑전환 연구로의 확장에 기여할 수 있을 것으로 기대한다.

초등수학수업의 과제제시 및 해결활동에서 나타나는 교사의 행동 분석 (An Analysis on Teachers' Behaviors in Problem Presenting and Solving Activities in Elementary Mathematics Class)

  • 이윤미;강완
    • 한국수학교육학회지시리즈C:초등수학교육
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    • 제11권2호
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    • pp.121-139
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    • 2008
  • 수학 교실에서 가치 있는 수학적 과제는 학생들에게 수학적 아이디어를 제공하고 지적으로 흥미를 갖고 도전해 보게 한다. 최근 수학적 과제에 대한 중요성은 여러 측면에서 강조되고 있다. 특히 과제에 따라 학생들의 수업 참여도가 달라지고 수업 시간의 활동이 결정된다는 연구 결과와 학습 기회는 학생들이 참여하는 과제의 사고 수준과 사고 종류에 의해 결정된다는 주장은 교수 학습 과정에서의 과제의 중요성을 한층 더 부각시키고 있다. 이에 본 연구는 다양하고 실제적인 과제 제시 및 해결 활동에 대한 구체적인 이해를 위하여 연구자의 개입이 없는 자연스러운 교실 상황 내에서 교수 학습 활동을 관찰하고자 한다. 교수 학습 활동에서 나타나는 교사의 과제 제시 방법, 과제 해결을 위한 기회 제공 방법, 과제 해결 시 나타나는 교사의 행동을 분석하여 각 관점에 따른 교사의 행동 유형을 분류해 보고, 이를 통해 수학적 소양과 수학적 힘을 신장시킬 수 있는 학생 중심의 개혁적인 수학 교실 수업 실현을 위한 기초적인 정보를 제공하고자 하는데 그 목적이 있다.

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중국고객 해외의료관광국가 선택의도에 영향을 미치는 요인에 관한 연구: 구전 조절효과를 중심으로 (Factors Influencing Chinese Customers' Selection of Health Care Service Countries: Focusing on Word-of-Mouth Moderating Effects)

  • 장준;이훈영
    • 유통과학연구
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    • 제13권12호
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    • pp.41-52
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    • 2015
  • Purpose - Given globalization, the new niche market of medical tourism is likely to experience sustainable growth for various reasons, such as aging populations and a shift in the medical consumerism paradigm toward prevention. Importantly, understanding medical customers' behavior is necessary to benefit from a competitive advantage in this industry. The existing research primarily accessed the key factors of medical quality and costs to explain health customers' behavior but is limited in terms of enabling an understanding of the decision process. This limitation exists because, given the intangibility and greater associated risks in the highly professional industry of international medical tourism, most customers lack the knowledge and experience needed to evaluate the central factors-such as the medical competence of health care countries-before purchases. Therefore, they actively search for useful information through various distributions to reduce uncertainty and to make better choices. Interestingly, most of these information channels are associated with word-of-mouth (WOM). However, no evidence is found in the literature to estimate the effect of WOM in the medical tourism field. Thus, this study focuses on WOM to explore its interaction with key medical characteristic factors and the attractiveness of destinations referred to by sources. This study also affects customers' evaluations and, in turn, influences their intention to seek health care services abroad. Research design, data, and methodology - The literature review addressed an interesting research model for estimating the relations among WOM, medical characteristics, attractiveness, and customers' choice intention regarding international health care. In the key economic regions in China, such as Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Shandong, and Guangdong, 2,500 survey questionnaires were distributed to potential customers of different ages, education, and income levels. A resulting 1,717 (68.68 percent of the original 2,500) usable surveys were obtained for analysis. Moderated regression analysis was used to determine the effects of WOM in the decision process regarding international health care destinations. Results - The results indicate that WOM is a good moderator of the relationships between the factors evaluated by sources and customers. More importantly, the WOM effects reflect the factors of tie strength, credibility, and vividness. The results also reveal that, given the moderating role of WOM, the intention of potential Chinese customers to seek the referred health care country varies according to the medical characteristics of medical competency and reputation as evaluated by customers. In contrast, the travel attractiveness of the attractions, facilities, accessibility, and social environment are critical determinants of destination choice intention. Conclusions - The moderating role of WOM has been confirmed through the international healthcare destination selection process. Medical tourism managers should user WOM as an effective marketing tool for industry development. Specially, marketers should consider the effects of WOM determinants, such as tie strength, credibility, and vividness, to develop an effective strategy. Furthermore, this study estimates the factors that affect customers' selection of medical tourism destinations. Health care managers or policy makers should consider a broad variety of variables that may attract more Chinese customers to international health care.

제한된 정보를 이용한 저층 건물 구조물의 지진 응답 예측 기법 개발을 위한 해석적 연구 (Numerical Study on the Development of the Seismic Response Prediction Method for the Low-rise Building Structures using the Limited Information)

  • 최세운
    • 한국전산구조공학회논문집
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    • 제33권4호
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    • pp.271-277
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    • 2020
  • 여러 센서를 이용한 구조물의 구조 응답을 모니터링하는 사례가 증가하고 있다. 그러나 비용과 관리 문제로 인해 제한된 센서만이 구조물에 설치되어 일부의 구조 응답만을 수집하는 경우가 대부분이다. 이는 구조물의 전체 거동을 분석하는데 장애요소로 작용하게 된다. 따라서 제한된 센서를 이용해 센서가 설치되지 않은 위치에서의 응답을 신뢰할 수 있는 수준으로 예측하는 기술이 필요하다. 본 연구에서는 제한된 정보를 이용해 저층 건물 구조물의 지진 응답을 예측하는 해석적 연구를 수행한다. 활용 가능한 응답 정보는 1층과 최상층의 가속도 응답만을 사용할 수 있다고 가정한다. 두 정보를 이용하면 구조물의 1차 고유진동수를 얻을 수 있다. 1층 가속도 정보는 구조물의 가력 정보로 활용한다. 최상층의 가속도이력응답에 대한 오차와 대상 구조물의 1차 고유진동수 오차를 최소화하는 구조물의 질량과 강성 정보를 유전자알고리즘을 이용해 예측하는 기법을 제시한다. 제약조건은 고려하지 않는다. 탐색공간을 의미하는 설계변수의 범위를 결정하기 위해 인공신경망 기반의 파라미터 예측기법을 제시한다. 또한 유전자알고리즘을 통해 얻게 되는 해를 개선시키기 위해 앞서 언급한 인공신경망을 활용한다. 제시한 기법을 검증하기 위해 5층 구조물 예제를 사용한다.

모바일 위치기반 광고에서 소비자 특성이 이용의도에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구 (A Study on the Effect of Consumer Characteristics on Intention to Use in Mobile Location-Based Advertising)

  • 조원상;한동균;황재훈
    • 정보화정책
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    • 제29권1호
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    • pp.38-59
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    • 2022
  • IT 기술의 발달과 스마트폰의 보급 확산은 기업과 소비자에게 많은 영향을 미치고 있다. 소비자들은 스마트폰과 인터넷을 통해 과거보다 다양하고 많은 양의 정보를 습득할 수 있게 되었고, 의사결정에도 많은 영향을 미치게 되었다. 기업들도 이와 같은 소비자의 행동 패턴 변화에 민감하게 대응하고, 마케팅에 반영하게 되었다. 스마트폰이 가지고 있는 여러 가지 특징들 중, 위치기반 기술은 기업 입장에서 타겟 마케팅을 제공할 수 있는 중요한 요인이 되었다. 이와 같은 기술 발달과 사회적인 변화는 소비자의 위치를 중심으로 제품이나 서비스를 홍보하고 할인쿠폰과 같은 혜택을 제공하는 모바일 광고 시장의 확산으로 연결되었다. 본 연구에서는 모바일 광고 시장에서 중요한 마케팅 방법으로 자리 잡은 모바일 위치기반 광고에서 소비자 특성이 이용의도에 미치는 영향력에 대한 분석을 실시하였다. 개인화, 인게이지먼트, 쿠폰 이용성향, 경제성, 성가심의 변수가 태도와 정보 프라이버시 염려에 미치는 영향을 분석하고, 태도와 정보 프라이버시 염려가 이용의도에 미치는 영향을 분석하였다. 본 연구결과는 향후 소비자에게 모바일 위치기반 광고를 제공할 때, 고려해야 할 요인을 제시할 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

제 1, 2회 학생 과학 공동탐구 토론대회의 종합적 평가 (Summative Evaluation of 1993, 1994 Discussion Contest of Scientific Investigation)

  • 김은숙;윤혜경
    • 한국과학교육학회지
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    • 제16권4호
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    • pp.376-388
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    • 1996
  • The first and the second "Discussion Contest of Scientific Investigation" was evaluated in this study. This contest was a part of 'Korean Youth Science Festival' held in 1993 and 1994. The evaluation was based on the data collected from the middle school students of final teams, their teachers, a large number of middle school students and college students who were audience of the final competition. Questionnaires, interviews, reports of final teams, and video tape of final competition were used to collect data. The study focussed on three research questions. The first was about the preparation and the research process of students of final teams. The second was about the format and the proceeding of the Contest. The third was whether participating the Contest was useful experience for the students and the teachers of the final teams. The first area, the preparation and the research process of students, were investigated in three aspects. One was the level of cooperation, participation, support and the role of teachers. The second was the information search and experiment, and the third was the report writing. The students of the final teams from both years, had positive opinion about the cooperation, students' active involvement, and support from family and school. Students considered their teachers to be a guide or a counsellor, showing their level of active participation. On the other hand, the interview of 1993 participants showed that there were times that teachers took strong leading role. Therefore one can conclude that students took active roles most of the time while the room for improvement still exists. To search the information they need during the period of the preparation, student visited various places such as libraries, bookstores, universities, and research institutes. Their search was not limited to reading the books, although the books were primary source of information. Students also learned how to organize the information they found and considered leaning of organizing skill useful and fun. Variety of experiments was an important part of preparation and students had positive opinion about it. Understanding related theory was considered most difficult and important, while designing and building proper equipments was considered difficult but not important. This reflects the students' school experience where the equipments were all set in advance and students were asked to confirm the theories presented in the previous class hours. About the reports recording the research process, students recognize the importance and the necessity of the report but had difficulty in writing it. Their reports showed tendency to list everything they did without clear connection to the problem to be solved. Most of the reports did not record the references and some of them confused report writing with story telling. Therefore most of them need training in writing the reports. It is also desirable to describe the process of student learning when theory or mathematics that are beyond the level of middle school curriculum were used because it is part of their investigation. The second area of evaluation was about the format and the proceeding of the Contest, the problems given to students, and the process of student discussion. The format of the Contests, which consisted of four parts, presentation, refutation, debate and review, received good evaluation from students because it made students think more and gave more difficult time but was meaningful and helped to remember longer time according to students. On the other hand, students said the time given to each part of the contest was too short. The problems given to students were short and open ended to stimulate students' imagination and to offer various possible routes to the solution. This type of problem was very unfamiliar and gave a lot of difficulty to students. Student had positive opinion about the research process they experienced but did not recognize the fact that such a process was possible because of the oneness of the task. The level of the problems was rated as too difficult by teachers and college students but as appropriate by the middle school students in audience and participating students. This suggests that it is possible for student to convert the problems to be challengeable and intellectually satisfactory appropriate for their level of understanding even when the problems were difficult for middle school students. During the process of student discussion, a few problems were observed. Some problems were related to the technics of the discussion, such as inappropriate behavior for the role he/she was taking, mismatching answers to the questions. Some problems were related to thinking. For example, students thinking was off balanced toward deductive reasoning, and reasoning based on experimental data was weak. The last area of evaluation was the effect of the Contest. It was measured through the change of the attitude toward science and science classes, and willingness to attend the next Contest. According to the result of the questionnaire, no meaningful change in attitude was observed. However, through the interview several students were observed to have significant positive change in attitude while no student with negative change was observed. Most of the students participated in Contest said they would participate again or recommend their friend to participate. Most of the teachers agreed that the Contest should continue and they would recommend their colleagues or students to participate. As described above, the "Discussion Contest of Scientific Investigation", which was developed and tried as a new science contest, had positive response from participating students and teachers, and the audience. Two among the list of results especially demonstrated that the goal of the Contest, "active and cooperative science learning experience", was reached. One is the fact that students recognized the experience of cooperation, discussion, information search, variety of experiments to be fun and valuable. The other is the fact that the students recognized the format of the contest consisting of presentation, refutation, discussion and review, required more thinking and was challenging, but was more meaningful. Despite a few problems such as, unfamiliarity with the technics of discussion, weakness in inductive and/or experiment based reasoning, and difficulty in report writing, The Contest demonstrated the possibility of new science learning environment and science contest by offering the chance to challenge open tasks by utilizing student science knowledge and ability to inquire and to discuss rationally and critically with other students.

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