• Journal of Science Education
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• v.35 no.2
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• pp.230-239
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• 2011

This study developed examination test tools for concepts of weather changes of middle school students, analyzed the hierarchy of concepts associated with weather changes by means of knowledge state analysis method, and examined the knowledge state and lesson effects of each individual learner. The hierarchy of the knowledge state of concepts of middle school students associated with weather changes followed the steps of 'humidity ${\rightarrow}$ air mass ${\rightarrow}$ cloud ${\rightarrow}$ precipitation ${\rightarrow}$ front ${\rightarrow}$ weather'. Cases were identified where the knowledge state of students that was thought to be similar to each other among the group of students who have scored almost the same points and thus were thought to have almost the same learning ability, have turned out different in the knowledge state from each other. Namely, the level of knowledge state structuralized differed, suggesting that differing prescriptions should be made according to the knowledge state of each student concerned. Analysis of the knowledge state of learners helps prepare learning prescriptions for each student and appraise prior learning. To examine effects of teaching-learning that has taken into consideration the hierarchy of knowledge state and concepts, lessons were conducted in comparison with the order in which syllabuses are presented in the textbooks, with the result that when knowledge state of learners have been taken into consideration, students made scores significantly higher (p < .05) than otherwise. This indicates that in introducing the unit of weather changes better teaching and learning can be achieved by reordering the contents of subject matters of the textbook by grasping the knowledge state of learners.

• Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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• v.39 no.1
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• pp.153-168
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• 2004

This study begins with the interests of the problems in learning a region under the Korean National Curriculum in geography field and the perceptions on the region which affects students 'formation of regional concept. The purposes of this study are to find problems in learning a region and to construct a new content for learning a region to improve the current problems. This study suggests that it is necessary for student to establish a clear concept on a region in order to effectively learn a region. Therefore, this study reviews how concepts on a region have changed and selects important elements in learning a region by considering a level of students' understanding. The important elements selected in this study are the definition of a region, the formation of a region, and the system of a region. By learning a real region established as a 'region for instruction' of a medium scale, students can reach an appropriate level of meaningful understanding of a region. This study found that an appropriate selection of scale in choosing the extent of a region was critical in success of effective organization of learning contents.

• Journal of the Korean School Mathematics Society
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.199-213
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• 2011

The factors contributing to learning can be broadly classified into four different groups; Learner's characteristic variable, Instructor's characteristic variable, Learning task characteristic variable and environmental characteristic variable. And the first thing we need to do here is understanding of learner's characteristics among those factors in order to devise a plan for education. Accordingly, the purpose of this study is to find out what impact the affective traits (self-concept learning habits learning attitude), one of the learner's features, have on the mathematics-learning achievement and to seek for a good teaching method with reference to elementary school students' learning accomplishments and attitudes. For this, a questionnaire survey was conducted of 78 students of two fifth-grade classes in an elementary school located in South Chungcheong Province in this study. In consequence, it has been shown that the mathematics-learning achievement has the greatest relevance to the self-concept in connection with mathematics followed by the self-concept in connection with learning, the learning habits relating to mathematics, the attitude towards mathematics, the learning habits concerning studies and the attitude towards learning.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.569-572
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• 2010

맞춤형 이러닝은 학습효과의 증진을 위한 방안으로 개인 맞춤형, 개인화 혹은 적응화 등의 개념이 제안되고 확장되었다. 본 논문에서는 초기 선호도, 흥미도 혹은 검색습관을 고려하는 방식으로부터, 특정한 학습객체를 자율 선택하여 반복 학습할 수 있도록 개념단위를 적용한 방식, 학습자의 능력을 고려한 최적 난이도 학습객체를 제공하는 방식 등 다양하게 제안되고 있는 현대적 개인 맞춤형 이러닝 체계들을 비교 분석한다. 개별 시스템에 따라 '평가'에 국한되거나 '평가'와 '학습'을 연계하는 경우가 존재하며, 이에 따른 적용에 의하여 학습환경과 맞춤형 제공방식 및 학습효과를 상호 연계할 수 있음을 밝힌다.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.35 no.4
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• pp.359-376
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• 2021

In this study, in accordance with the research trend that the learner's emotions expressed positively or negatively in mathematics learning or the learner's beliefs and attitudes toward mathematics learning affect the results of mathematics learning, the learner's emotions and affective factors are analyzed in the learner's own learning. A power that can be adjusted according to a goal or purpose is needed, and I tried to explain this power through meta-affect. To this end, the meaning of the definitional and conceptual factors of meta-affect was explored based on prior studies. Affective factors of meta-affect were viewed as emotions, attitudes, and beliefs, and conceptual factors of meta-affect were viewed as awareness, evaluating, controlling, utilization, and monitoring, and the meaning of each conceptual factor was also defined. In this study, the conceptual factors and meanings of meta-affect in terms of using them to help in learning mathematics by controlling them, beyond the identification or examination of the characteristics of the affective factors, which are meaningfully dealt with in the field of mathematics education.

• Journal of the Korean earth science society
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• v.44 no.1
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• pp.47-61
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• 2023

Rather than an abstract discourse, the purpose of this study is to outline the core concepts in the 2015 revised curriculum as a concrete teaching and learning method in the school context. We interviewed eight secondary science teachers and reported their perceptions and perspectives on core concepts using a backward design model based on the cyclical process of the platform, deliberation, and design for developing teaching and learning materials to understand core concepts. The participants perceived these core concepts differently, such as big ideas corresponding to the ultimate principle, minimum science concepts required for daily life, and primary and significant key concepts. In addition, this affects the association of teaching and learning. When core concepts are understood as transferable and expandable big ideas, there is a tendency to focus on the relationship between concepts and design project learning in a specific direction. However, if core concepts are identified as minimum science concepts at the level of science literacy, that can be recalled within the context of life, there is a tendency to emphasize on activities that make a meaningful difference to the lives of students with focus on case studies that are relevant to everyday life. Once core concepts are identified as key scientific content elements, such as basic or significant concepts, teachers recognize that it is essential to emphasize concept changes by correcting misconceptions, acquiring accurate scientific knowledge, and developing problem-solving items through paper-and-pencil evaluation. As the 2015 revised curriculum is finalized and the 2022 revised curriculum is scheduled for release, effective policy support is required to ensure that the curriculum is revised, which emphasizes the purpose of big ideas by naming core concepts as core ideas, to be stably implemented in schools.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.591-623
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• 2002

본 연구에서는 우리 나라의 학교 수학에서 실제적으로 CBL, CBR과 같은 실시간 테크놀로지와 MathWorld와 같은 소프트웨어를 활용한 활동 중심의 실험 학습의 가능성을 탐색하고, 이를 통하여 수학 학습의 기초가 되는 함수적 개념의 이해와 그 표상과의 연관성, 그리고 기존의 형성되어 있던 함수에 대한 오개념에 어떠한 영향을 미치는지를 분석하고자 하였다.

• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.79-88
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• 2006

This study investigated the effects of computer-assisted instruction adapting to the level of students' conceptual understanding upon students' conceptual understanding, retention of conceptions, learning motivation, and perception about computer-assisted instruction in concept learning. 94 seventh grade students from a coed middle school in Seoul were randomly assigned to control, CAI, adaptive CAI groups, and were taught about 'motion of molecules' for 7 class periods. Two-way ANCOVA results revealed that the scores of a conception test and a learning motivation test for the adaptive CAI group were significantly higher than those for the control group. The scores of a retention test of conceptions for the adaptive CAI group were significantly higher than those for other two groups. There were no significant interactions between the instruction and the level of previous achievement in the scores of the conception test, the learning motivation test, and the retention test of conceptions. The perception about computer-assisted instruction for the students of the adaptive CAI group were more positive than those for the students of the CAI group.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2014.04a
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• pp.757-760
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• 2014

프로그래밍 능력은 21세기 정보화 사회를 살아가는데 있어 인간이 컴퓨터를 활용하여 다양한 문제를 해결할 수 있도록 도움을 준다. 효과적인 프로그래밍 교육이 이루어지기 위해서는 학습자들에게 순차적 수행, 조건적 수행, 반복적 수행과 같은 기본적인 프로그래밍 개념을 습득하도록 할 필요가 있다. 따라서 본 연구는 스도쿠 인공지능 프로그래밍 교육에서 프로그래밍의 기본 개념을 바탕으로 알고리즘을 설계하는 방법을 학습시키는 방안을 모색하기 위한 목적이 있다. 연구의 목적을 달성하기 위해 중학생 10명을 대상으로 실험 연구를 진행하였다. 연구 결과, 학습자는 연구자가 제안한 활동지가 알고리즘 설계 학습에 도움이 된 것으로 인식한 것을 확인할 수 있었다. 본 연구는 프로그래밍 교육에서 초보 학습자가 이해하기 어려워하는 프로그래밍 개념을 학습하는데 도움이 되는 학습 방법을 제시하였다는데 의의가 있다.

• Journal of the Korean earth science society
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• v.32 no.7
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• pp.902-912
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• 2011

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of teaching based on analysis of a hierarchy of the concepts associated with astronomical observation as well as each learner's status of knowledge through analytical methods of the knowledge state. A test instrument was developed to measure high school students' concepts associated with astronomical observation before instruction. The learners' psychological hierarchy associated with astronomical observation that the participants possessed showed the order of 'motion of the earth${\rightarrow}$coordinate system${\rightarrow}$astronomical observation (mechanism of the telescope${\rightarrow}$installation of the telescope${\rightarrow}$observation through the telescope)', and so was the hierarchy of teaching (70.6%). The learners' knowledge state that is supposed to be similar each other in the ability of observing celestial bodies was different even through they scored the same on the concept test. There were cases with the knowledge state well-structured and not well-structured, which suggests that differentiated instruction with appropriate teaching-learning prescriptions be prepared. An analysis of the knowledge state can play the role of both preparing individualized learning prescriptions and formative evaluation. In the unit dealing with astronomical observation of Earth ScienceI, teaching according to the psychological hierarchy of learners rather than the order in which the textbook syllabi were presented scored significantly higher (p<0.05) on the level of concept achievements. This result suggests that the teacher can help students achieve more efficient in learning by analyzing the learner's knowledge state and reordering the syllabi of the textbook in teaching the concepts associated with astronomical observation.