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http://dx.doi.org/10.3745/KTCCS.2019.8.5.103

Analysis on the Aspect of Learners' Explorations Reflected in High School Informatics Textbooks Based on the 2015 Revised National Curriculum  

Kang, Oh-Han (안동대학교 컴퓨터교육과)
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KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems / v.8, no.5, 2019 , pp. 103-110 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this research, one common chapter, Problem Solving and Programming, in seven different types of high school informatics textbooks was analyzed in terms of the aspect of learners' explorations. These textbooks were newly developed based on the 2015 revised national curriculum. Romey's analysis was used to the textbooks along with four analytic elements: texts, data, activities, and evaluation. The study results showed that the textbooks can highly encourage learners' further explorations according to the four analytic elements reflected in the seven textbooks: one out of the six textbooks well designed for texts, three for data, six for activities, two for evaluation. In terms of Romey's involvement index points, six of the seven textbooks had low indexes of texts, ranging from 0.175 to 0.393. Data indexes were extremely low in four out of the seven textbooks, ranging from 0.058 to 0.226. Five out of the seven textbooks had very high indexes of evaluation in the broad range of 2 to 6.333 points. Furthermore, these newly designed textbooks can more greatly facilitate students' explorations than previously existing textbooks in three elements: texts, data, and activities. Evaluation indexes significantly increased in these new textbooks from 0.916 to 3.914, which had excessive points in terms of promoting students' explorations. Further methods to improve the textbook quality is proposed based on the results from this analysis.
Keywords
Curriculum; Informatics Subject; Textbook; Inquisitive Tendency; Romey Analysis;
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