• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.148-159
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• 2014

The purpose of this study was to comparatively analyze local educational autonomy(LEA) between Korea and the U.S. and investigate the new directions that Korea can follow. To do so, a comparative analysis was employed to study the background, development process, principles and structural elements of the respective LEAs. The conclusions drawn from the study were as follows: First, the structure of the Korean LEA should be selected and established. Second, the LEA principles should be discussed again and decided anew to accomplish the goals of the LEA by mobilizing all local potential resources. Third, 'control by people,' one of essential LEA principles, should be expanded to include the participation of the people.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.535-543
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• 2014

In this paper, I proposed a way of improving computer education in elementary, middle and high schools. I firstly analyzed the importance of computer education by researching an index of a national economic condition, People's IT use frequency and the demand for computer education by students and parents. Secondly, I researched the condition of computer education in elementary, middle and high schools. Finally, I analyzed problems of current computer education and proposed three way of improving computer education in elementary, middle and high schools.

• 한국정보교육학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2011.01a
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• pp.67-73
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• 2011

In the basis on the revised Information and Communications Technology guidelines at elementary and middle school, it is newly emphasized in 3rd stage of ICT guidelines that the programming education is needed to cope with information-oriented society at the elementary school. But, it is a little difficult for the young students to learn how to make program. In this paper, we suggest a programming education curriculum with Scratch Language and educational contents for the elementary student.

• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.13-26
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• 2006

5 years are passed since the 7th National Curriculum of Education began. The curriculum didn't get successful outcomes, rather brought about several problems. Especially, the computer curriculum didn't effectively deal with fast developing computer technology. In present, the general and overall problems of middle school computer education suggested in many previous researches. After we investigate general computer education problems which computer teachers and students are felt, we must try to reflect the results in computer education policy. In this paper, on the basis of general computer education problems suggested by previous researches, we absolutely analyzed the teacher's and student's question results about correct situation of middle school, and suggested improvement methods of middle school computer education.

• School Mathematics
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.241-255
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• 2015

The purpose of this study is to analyze teachers' understanding on generating random number in Monte Carlo simulation and to provide educational implications in school practice. The results showed that the 70% of the teachers selected wrong ideas from three types for random-number as strategies for problem solving a probability problem and also they make some errors to justify their opinion. The first kind of the errors was that the probability of a point or boundary was equal to the value of the probability density function in the continuous probability distribution. The second kind of the errors was that the teachers failed to recognize that the sample space has been changed by conditional probability. The third kind of the errors was that when two random variables X, Y are independence of each other, then only, joint probability distribution is satisfied $P(X=x,\;Y=y)=p(X=x){\times}P(Y=y{\mid}X=x)$.

• Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.193-212
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• 2013

This paper aims to identify factors to elevate the effectiveness of a high school mathematics teacher's training program focused on the construction of test items, and to make a blueprint for the training program development of high school mathematics teachers. This study created and executed a teacher's training program, and then twice applied focus group interviews with the teachers who participated in the program. As a result, this study identifies four factors that elevate the effectiveness of a high school mathematics teacher's training program focused on the construction of test items: the structure of the training program that allows teachers to concentrate on constructing test items, the recognition and revision of their habits related to the construction of test items, the formation of a consensus among the participants, and self-reflection on the teachers' specialties in the construction of the test items.

• The Journal of Korean Institute for Practical Engineering Education
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.91-99
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• 2013

The purpose of this study was to analyse the textbooks of counseling skills and techniques to understand what contents are included and to identify differences of contents between psychological counseling textbooks and career counseling textbooks. 5 psychological counseling textbooks and 4 career counseling textbooks were to analyse. First of all, each textbook contains various contents from the author's viewpoint. Therefore, educators need to understand the characteristics of the textbooks, when they choose the textbook among them. Secondly, there are common contents and different contents between psychological counseling textbooks and career counseling textbooks. The common contents are 'skills based on counseling theory', 'counseling relationship', interview and counseling process skills', 'client assessment and understanding', 'multicultural counseling'. 'Response skills' are regarded as the most important content in psychological counseling textbooks, while 'client assessment and understanding' being the most important in career counseling textbooks.

• Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.137-162
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• 2012

Learning graphical representations for statistical data requires understanding of the context related to measurement in statistical investigation since the choice of representation and the features of the selected graph to represent the data are determined by the purpose and context of data collection and the types of the data collected. This study investigated whether middle school students can think critically about measurement and scales integrating contextual knowledge and statistical knowledge. According to our results, the students lacked critical thinking related to measurement process of data and scales of graphical representations. In particular, the students had a tendency not to question upon information provided from data and graphs. They also lacked competence to critique data and graphs and to make a flexible judgement in light of context including statistical purpose.

• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.53-61
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• 2020

In the information society, the ability of learners to use computers to conduct self-directed learning is important. Indeed, the higher the computer's ability to use computers, the more the academic achievement needs to be analyzed. The purpose of this study was to identify longitudinal trajectories of student awareness of ICT literacy and frequency of computer use. We also examined the effects of the longitudinal patterns on academic achievement and college major choice. A non-parametric approach, K-means for longitudinal data(KML) algorithm, was conducted using 9-year longitudinal data from Seoul Education Longitudinal Study (2010-2018). Findings indicated that a pattern presenting a higher awareness of ICT literacy and frequency of computer use showed better academic achievements and was likely to prefer to choose engineering-related majors.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.40 no.6
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• pp.649-656
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• 2020

In this study, we analyzed the learning elements and achievement standards, and explored the appropriateness and hierarchy of content were analyzed related to the nine types of traditional astronomical instruments presented in the traditional science unit of the History of Science course to improve the problematic situation in which students show low selection rates for the History of Science, one of the elective courses in high school science. Based on the results of this analysis, we suggested ways to utilize each astronomical instrument for teaching and learning in science curriculum with different grade bands. Using the results of this study as a starting point, if a follow-up study that develops specific achievement standards or inquiry activities related to traditional astronomical instruments can be conducted, students' awareness of Korean traditional science culture can be improved, and furthermore it is expected to increase the student's selection rate for the History of Science course.