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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2014.15.3.1458

The Effects of Thesis-writing Activity based Project method on the Ability of Girl's Middle School Student's Self Directed Learning and Learning Attitude  

Lee, Jae-Cheol (Dept. of Education, Korea National University of Education)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.15, no.3, 2014 , pp. 1458-1464 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this study were to identify the effect of thesis-writing activity based project method on the ability of girl's middle school student's self directed learning(SDL) and learning attitude. To achieve above study purpose, the subject of this study were selected 60 from second-grade students of reading club(thesis-writing activities participants 30, non-participants 30), applied a program based project method to experimental group, to carry out a pre-post examined targeting two-group with early making a SDL ability and learning attitude inventory, and the results of the data were analyzed by t-test using the SPSS(Ver. 18). The results were as follows: In the aspect of SDL ability development by thesis-writing activity, the student participant showed somewhat significant differences compared to the non-participants. First, a openess, inner-motivation, autonomy, self-conception of SDL ability was significantly higher than those non-participants. Second, confidence, success expert, attention, effectiveness, affection of learning attitude was significantly higher than those non-participants. These results represent that various programs, which can develop SDL ability and learning attitude, can be provided for youth when they join any thesis-writing activity based project method in general and those programs are also very effective in developing SDL ability and learning attitude of juveniles. Furthermore, It is suggested that thesis-writing activity based project method are a necessary element at the school education fields.
Keywords
Learning attitude; Project method; SDL(Self-Directed Learning) ability; Thesis-writing activity;
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