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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2011.12.7.3022

Analysis of Inquisitive Tendencies in the Units 'Information Society and IT' in Middle School Informatics Textbooks  

Kim, Ja-Mee (Department of Computer Science Education, Graduate School, Korea University)
Jang, Yun-Jae (Department of Computer Science Education, Graduate School, Korea University)
Lee, Won-Gyu (Department of Computer Science Education, Korea University)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.12, no.7, 2011 , pp. 3022-3029 More about this Journal
Abstract
One of the characteristics of the informatics subject implementing the revised national curriculum is to develop the practical attitude of the student as an active member of information society. The purpose of this study is to examine whether the units 'Information Society and IT' in middle school informatics textbooks reflect inquisitive tendencies to student's practice. After four textbooks that were widely selected by schools were selected from among the authorized textbooks, the sentences of the selected textbooks were analyzed by utilizing Romey's analysis method to see whether there was such an inquisitive tendency in them. As a result of analyzing six content elements of the textbooks, one textbook and two textbooks had an inquisitive tendency in three elements or more in terms of texts and activities index respectively. But there was no inquisitive tendency in the textbooks in terms of figure/diagrams, questions at the end of chapters and chapter synthesis. This study is meaningful in that it attempted to make a quantitative analysis of middle school informatics textbooks and to investigate an inquisitive tendency in the textbooks by analyzing every statement and sentence instead of analyzing just some parts of the textbooks.
Keywords
Information society; Inquisitive tendency; Informatics textbook analysis;
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