• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.76-92
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• 2002

OECD/PISA(Programme for International Student Assessment) is significant in that it is the first international comparative study assessing 15-year-old students' scientific literacy. Based on Korean students' results of percent correct in 35 science items, several characteristics such as followings were revealed. First, from the perspectives of science application area, Korean students showed the highest achievement in the area of 'science in technology' followed by in the areas of 'science in life and health' and 'science in earth and environment'. Male students achieved significantly better than female counterparts in all three areas. Second, the achievement in items of science knowledge was significantly higher than in items of scientific processes. Whereas the achievement difference between science knowledge- and scientific process items was larger for male students. Third, from the perspectives of application contexts, Korean students showed the highest achievement in the historical context and the lowest achievement in the personal context. Fourth, from the perspectives of item format, Korean students performed significantly better in open-constructed items rather than in multiple-choice items. Fifth, Korean students showed low performance in items of biotechnology and environment-related issue, which was more prominent for female students. Sixth, whereas male students performed significantly better than female students in most aspects, it is noteworthy that there was no significant gender differences in items of scientific processes and females performed significantly better than male students in open-constructed items which require long sentence.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.11 no.4 s.27
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• pp.77-91
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• 2005

The aim of this study was to determine what kinds of an effect on dietary behaviors of elementary school students in seoul by gender. So this survey is classified into nutrition knowledge, food habit dietary behaviors. Nutrition knowledge is different from gender, male is scoring 6.90 out of 10 and female is scoring 7.03 out of 10. Food habit is also different from gender, male is scoring 4.17 out of 10 and female is scoring 4.79 out of 10. Dietary behaviors also female is better than male. This result shows that food service should be more highly satisfied with the food service quality than the food service quantity.

• Korean journal of food and cookery science
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.84-90
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• 2000

This study was to investigate the eating attitutes, food habits, perceived stress of high school students. Three hundred and fifty four high school students in Seoul area were surveyed to obtain the information from Sep. 18 to 26 in 1997. The average height and weight of high school students were 173.7 cm, 62.9 kg for male students and 162.5 cm, 52.6 kg for female students. The 52.5% of high school students were normal weight and 41.5% of them were underweight. Female students(46.7%) showed higher proportion of underweight than male students(37.0%). The students(50.9%) ate breakfast irregularly and most students(92.5%) ate Korean food for breakfast. The dietary changes of high school students over past few years showed that the intake of vegetable, fruit and yogurt were increased. The food habit score showed no significant difference by gender, mother's employment and monthly spending money. The nutritional knowledge score of female students were higher than the score of male students. Most high school students(93.9%) were highly stressed in their living. The stress score(3.35) of female students were higher than those of male students(3.15). However, excercise, eating slowly and good appetite could lower their perceived stress.

• Journal of Engineering Education Research
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.46-54
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• 2011

The present study was carried out to investigate gender-related attitudes of professors in engineering as a socio-environmental factor for career barriers of female engineering students. For this purpose, 220 professors, 169 in engineering and 51 in non-engineering, completed questionnaires that evaluated gender-related knowledge, behavior, and career expectations. Our results showed that both engineering and non-engineering professors showed a low level of knowledge of gender differences. Both groups selected soft skills such as leadership, initiative and self efficacy as lacking in female students, rather than their academic skills. Professors in engineering showed higher expectations of female students pursuing a career in engineering but lower expectations for working on core projects and taking leadership at the workplace than the professors in non-engineering. The level of gender-sensitivity related to teaching was lower for professors in engineering than those in non-engineering, although professors in engineering evaluated their gender sensitivity higher than the evaluation of their female students. In addition, professors in engineering opted less for developing programs for female student career development in engineering than professors in non-engineering, and they showed a low interest level in participating in such programs. This study showed that the efforts to make engineering professors aware of the characteristics of female students should precede the development of education programs.

• Journal of the korean academy of Pediatric Dentistry
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• v.43 no.4
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• pp.401-409
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• 2016

This research investigates into overall oral health status of adolescent girl inmates in a juvenile detention facility and ordinary school students in the same age range of 11 to 18 years old and compares the results focusing on the difference between the two groups. The last 5 years dental records for girl inmates in Juvenile detention facility and for students who have visited the Department of Pediatric Dentistry at Ajou University Hospital was colleted and analyzed. The restorative treatments took up the greatest part in their history of treatments. While the percentage of extractions of permanent teeth due to dental caries had been gradually increased, in Juvenile detention facility students, throughout the transition period from middle school to high school, in dental hospital patients, the phenomenon of the same kind has hardly been detected. After that record analysis, oral examination for Juvenile detention facility students and dental hospital patients was conducted. DMFT index for dental hospital patients are 4.15, whereas, the value for Juvenile detention facility students are as twice as high to be 7.53.

• Journal of Engineering Education Research
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.34-45
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• 2008

The present study is designed to explore psychological correlates of career barrier of female college students in engineering fields by investigating psychological characteristics of female students and by comparing them with those of male students. For these ends 1,968 female and male students in 8 universities nation-wide completed the questionnaire which includes the measures for self career aspiration, self-efficacy, satisfaction and expectation in engineering career. The results of our study revealed female students scored significantly lower than male students in all of these variables. In addition, the developmental patterns of female and male students differ significantly; Male students aspiration, self-efficacy, expectation and satisfaction increased with the school experience whereas those of female students did not show any change or decrease. The results call for the intervention to improve the psychological vulnerability of female students in engineering field.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.489-500
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• 2021

The purpose of this study is to explore the experience and meaning of health domain in physical education practice process for female students, which can be used online. This study would like to provide physical education teachers with implications to revitalize female students' physical education. The research method used case study. Data composition and analysis used group interviews, in-depth interviews and field data. The results of study was first, the changes in classes and school sports after COVID-19 were divided into self-portraits of reality and school sports in COVID-19. Second, the new challenge was categorized into the practice process of the new online class in physical education and the change of movement for oneself. The discussion suggested the need for sympathetic consideration and communication in Corona-19, a path from crisis to opportunity. Follow-up studies should continue to study about girls' various experience participated in physical education classes, collaboration of the teacher learning community that teaches girls' classes and utilizing method of platforms and ICT that can motivate girls' physical education classes.

• Journal of Nutrition and Health
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• v.41 no.8
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• pp.818-831
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• 2008

The purpose of this study was to investigate the dietary behavior, health-related lifestyles and nutrient intake status of college students according to physical activity levels. The physical activity levels were measured using the Korean version of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) short form. The subjects of this study were 438 college students (243 males and 195 females) in Incheon area and were divided by gender and by physical activity levels, which included low, moderate and high physical activity groups. The average age of male and female students were 23.7 and 21.0 years old, respectively. The prevalence of the low physical activity group was 11.5% for males and 30.8% for females and that of the high physical activity group was 38.7% for males and 22.6% for females. According to the criteria for obesity in Asia-Pacific region, 39.1% of the males and 64.1% of the female students investigated were in the normal range of BMI and 30.9% of the males and 4.6% of the female students were in the obesity category. However, percent of body fat in the female students was significantly higher than that of the male students. The soft lean mass of the high physical activity group was higher compared to the other groups. In the low physical activity group, frequency of “eating out” was lower compared to the other groups. The average consumption of energy was 74.4% for males and 80.1% for females of the estimated energy requirement (EER). The mean intakes of vitamin C, vitamin B2, folic acid and Ca were 67.3%, 84%, 52.7% and 36.7% for males and 64.8%, 99.9%, 51.1% and 40.1% for females of recommended intake (RI), respectively. Therefore, it was necessary for obesity prevention as well as health promotion to increase physical activity and to eat an adequate, balanced diet in female college students.

• Korean Journal of Community Nutrition
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.767-768
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• 2000

• Korean Journal of Childcare and Education
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.1-22
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• 2011

The purpose of this study was a comparative of the differences, relationships and impacts between the self-concept and career development for elementary schoolers by gender. The subjects of this study were 259(133 boys and 126 girls) elementary schoolers. The instrument used in this study was Jung Jong Jin's(1996) self-concept Inventory and Ahn Chang gyu & Ahn Hyeon eui's(2006) Holland career development Inventory. The collected data were analyzed with a SPSS 12.0 program. The major findings of the study were as follows: (1) the mean score of boy(M=54.857, SD=7.593) was higher than girl(M=52.302, SD=8.908) in 'emotional-self'. (2) (1) the mean score of girl(M=42.200, SD=5.918) was higher than boy(M=37.372, SD=7.600) in 'gender-related prejudice about occupation'. (2) the mean score of boy(M=36.544, SD=5.544) was higher than girl(M=35.008, SD=5.118) in 'autonomy' (3) the revealed that self-concept was highly correlated with boy's(r=.175~.761) and girl's(r=.199~.667) career development. (4) (1) the 'academic-self' had an impact of the boy's(5.6%~56.3%) and girl's(8.4%~48.7%) career development. (2) the 'social-self' had an impact of the boy's(2.6%~5.9%) and girl's(2.7%~4.3%) career development. (3) the 'emotional-self' had an impact of the boy's(1.9%~37.0%) and girl's(11.2%) career development. (4) the 'physical-self' no had an impact of the boy's and girl's career development. The findings of the study illustrated that the self-concept for elementary schoolers had an impact career development.