• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.523-543
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• 2009

We conduct a survey to find out the academic achievement factors for 484 second grade students at two middle schools in Busan city and Kyungsangnam Do, respectively. The survey questionnaire includes home environment and background, students' personal character, relationships with friends, learning attitudes towards improving problem solving, variables related to teaching methods and teachers, the school's computer facilities, mobile class by students levels, private education current situations, etc. Private education current situations are presented according to regions. Based on survey data we perform factor analysis to find major factors affecting mathematics academic achievement. We analyze the characteristics of the major factors. We also propose basic data and implications to mathematics educators and mathematics teachers at middle schools for improving middle school mathematics education quality.

• Journal of Korean Home Economics Education Association
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.67-78
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• 2010

The purpose of this study was to examine hope in relation to social support in adolescents. Four hundred adolescents at two middle schools and two high schools participated in Gwangju metropolitan city. Hope and social support were assessed using self-report questionnaires. Findings indicated that there were significant positive associations between social support and level of hope in adolescents. Adolescents' hope was influenced by gender, religious experience and social support. Specifically, informational support of parents and appraisal support of friends were the two most important factors in explaining hope of adolescents.

• Korean Educational Research Journal
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.47-66
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• 2016

The purpose of this study is to examine the analysis on the effect of incentive gap of teacher's merit-pay on organizational commitment and organizational citizenship behavior. The study verified the hypothetical path model and analyzed the effects of incentive gap of teacher's merit-pay, organizational commitment and organizational citizenship behavior. The subjects of the study are 762 elementary and secondary school teachers. The results of the study are as follows: Firstly, it was found that there are significant correlations among incentive gap of teacher's merit-pay, organizational commitment and organizational citizenship behavior. Secondly, incentive gap of teacher's merit-pay affects organizational commitment and organizational citizenship behavior. Lastly, S grade teachers of teacher's merit-pay are more organizational commitment and organizational citizenship behavior level were higher than A and B grade teacher. Therefore teacher's merit-pay have positive impacts to the teachers.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.39 no.6
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• pp.755-765
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• 2019

This study aims to develop the scales to measure the innovation configurations of Science. Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics (STEAM) from the perspective of elementary school teachers and investigates the effect of the innovation configurations and related environmental factors on the usage levels of STEAM based on the newly developed scales for the innovation configurations of STEAM. The scales for the innovation configurations of STEAM are based on analyzing the various previous studies and in-depth interviews and consist of four sub-configurations: The 'Preparation,' 'Design,' 'Implementation,' and 'Evaluation.' The innovation configurations of STEAM was investigated with the developed scales through 266 teachers who are leading STEAM school teachers, are involved in STEAM research group, or are implementing STEAM in general schools. The final 19 questionnaires for the scale of the innovation configuration of STEAM are confirmed with exploratory factor analysis and reliability analysis. In order to examine the relationship between the innovation configurations and levels of use, the direct relationship between four sub-configurations and the usage levels of STEAM and the effect of environmental factors on the innovation configuration and the usage levels of STEAM have been conducted and their interactions are considered. The results show that 'Implementation' in the innovation configurations of STEAM and 'STEAM training experience' are most important factors to improve the usage levels of STEAM for elementary school teachers. It implies that the scales are very helpful in improving as well as figuring out the current innovation configurations of STEAM.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.347-358
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• 2021

The purpose of this study was to investigate the stage of concern and use level of early childhood teachers' STEAM, and to find out whether there is a difference in the stage of concern according to individual teachers' variables. The subjects were 242 teachers in charge of 3-5 years old kindergarten and daycare center in G city. The research tool was the stages of concern questionnaire (SoCQ). The collected data were converted to relative intensity by applying percentile conversion chart in the guidelines, and this was expressed as a concern profile graph, and t-test and ANOVA were performed to find out the difference in concern according to teacher's background variables. The research results are as follows. First, the stage of concern in early childhood teachers' STEAM was identified as a critical non-user profile. Second, the stage of concern in the teacher's STEAM was judged as a person who did not use, or was implemented for less than 2 years, and was a non-user or a novice. In addition, it was found that most of the teachers did not receive formal education for STEAM. third. There were differences in the educational background, career, current execution status of teachers, whether or not to take related courses in pre-service teacher education, and whether to plan for future implementation. And there were no differences in the majors and institution types of teachers. Based on these results, a support plan for changing the stage of concern of teachers about STEAM and improving the level of use was suggested.

• Korean Journal of Childcare and Education
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.63-83
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• 2015

The purpose of this study was to examine the multicultural sensitivity of early childhood teachers, their perception on the purpose of multicultural education and any possible differences in those regards according to their background variables in an effort to determine the influence of the multicultural sensitivity of early childhood teachers and their perception on the purpose of multiculitural education on multicultural sensitivity, as the two variables were closely bound up with multicultural teaching efficacy. The subjects in this study were 283 selected early childhood teachers. The findings of the study were as follows: First, as for perception on the purpose of multicultural education, caring-centered perception was most common among the early childhood teachers, and their scores in multicultural sensitivity were a little above average. Second, there were significant differences among the teachers in multicultural sensitivity and perception on the purpose of multicultural education according to career, age and academic credential. Third, multicultural sensitivity and four perceptions on the purpose of multicultural education had a significant positive correlation with multicultural teaching efficacy. Multicultural sensitivity exerted the largest influence on multicultural teaching efficacy. Among the four perceptions of the purpose of multicultural education, caring-centered perception and social action-centered one turned out to have an impact on the subvariables of multicultural teaching efficacy. This study will provide basic information to prepare some solutions that enforce ealry childhood teachers' mulitucultutral education ability by improving their multicultural teaching efficacy.

• 재활복지
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.145-164
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• 2014

The purpose of the study is to examine the relationships of parents' satisfaction towards their children's school education and the demographic variables associated with decision-making on post high school academic completion of parents of the students with disabilities. The Korean Education Longitudinal Study data, which contained the responses of 162 parents of high school students with mild disabilities who enrolled in regular high schools, was used for the study. For data analysis, descriptive statistics, ordinal logistic regression analysis, and chi-square test were used. As a result, provision of college entrance related information/consultation, improvement of academic performance level, collaboration/ communication between the teachers and parents, and overall school education were significantly related to parents' decision-making on their children's post high school academic completion. Also, mothers' educational level showed significant difference in parents' decision-making on their children's post high school academic completion.

• Korean Journal of Childcare and Education
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.167-187
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• 2015

The purpose of this study was to purpose fundamental data which can be used for the development of a flourish competency enhancement program for infant teachers. The methods of the questionnaire study were performed on 213 infant teachers. The results are as follows. First, as a result of investigating their awareness of a flourish competency, many of the infant teachers replied that they were aware of it to a certain extent. The differences of institution type were statistically significant. Second, as a results of looking for any possible difference in the teacher's background variables in needs for the development of an enhancement program for flourish competency, there weren't significant differences in opinions on the needs of the program, effects of the program, purpose of the program, execution cycle, methods of the program training, intention of involvement. But needs of flourish competency existed of significant differences in institution type and execution time and program operator existed of significant differences in institution type and career. This study is hope to suggest some of the development directions of a flourish competency enhancement program for infant teachers.

• Korean Educational Research Journal
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• v.43 no.1
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• pp.125-152
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• 2022

The purpose of this study is to examine the differences of perceptions of teachers and students regarding teaching skills. For the analysis, data was collected by ICALT(International Comparative Analysis of Learning and Teaching) class observation tool and students survey called My Teacher Questionnaire. a student survey. The data of teachers and students can be compared because as the two tools have seven common domains(Safe and stimulating learning climate, Efficient organization, Clear and structured instructions, Intensive and activating teaching, Adjusting instructions and learner processing to inter-learner differences, Teaching learning strategies, Learner engagement). In 2016, in Daejeon, Chungbuk and Chungnam. trained teachers collected data from 106 classes, and 2,866 students responded the survey. The reliability and validity of the two tools, class observation and MTQ(My Teacher Questionnaire) are proven to be satisfactory for use in Korean schools. Students perception on teaching was high, particularly when students are in lower grades and learning major subjects like English, Korean, and math. The domain of higher teaching skills, male students show higher perceptions while female students reported higher perceptions on lower-level teaching skill domains. To compare the perceptions of teachers and students, the predictive reliability of students engagement against teaching skill domains was used. Teachers showed higher predictive reliability on lower teaching skill domains while students showed higher predictive reliability on higher teaching skill domains. It is recommended for further study to develop a professional development model using a teacher class observation tool and the My Teacher Questionnaire for pre-service teachers and school teachers.

• 대한공업교육학회지
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• v.39 no.1
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• pp.209-226
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• 2014

This study investigates invention and patent specialized high school teachers' understanding of terminology and their meaning differences in the realm of invention, career-specific, and freestyle Invention according to background variables. The population of this research consists of 333 teachers currently employed in invention and patent specialized high school and complete enumeration survey has been used. To analyze the terminology understanding and their meaning differences, total of 216 questionnaires have been collected and 211 of them (63.4%) were used, excluding the ones with insincere answers. The results of this study are as follows. First, in regard to invention, carrer-specific, freestyle Invention terminology understanding, established teachers showed higher results over new teachers. In addition, experienced teachers showed higher results over inexperienced teachers, and teachers with in-service training experiences showed higher results over the ones without. Second, when it came to understanding the terminology differences in the three realms, the new teachers showed higher results than the established teachers, inexperienced teachers over those with teaching experiences, and ones who have never taken any in-service training showed higher results than the ones with training experiences. The ones who answered 'don't know' regarding the meaning differences among terminology were established teachers over new teachers, experienced teachers over inexperienced teachers, and in-service training recipients over the ones without.