• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.36 no.1
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• pp.45-61
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• 2016

The purpose of this study is to explore students' epistemic goals and considerations in designing an experiment task and to investigate how a shift in the students' epistemology affected their argumentation. Four 7th grade students were selected as a focus group. According to the results, when they designed their own experiment, their epistemic goal was 'scientific sense-making' and their epistemic considerations - the perception of the nature of the knowledge product was 'this experiment should explain how something happened', the perception of the justification was 'we need to use our interpretation of the data' and the perception of the audience was 'constructor' - contributed to designing their experiment actively. When students tried to select one argument, their epistemic goal shifted to 'winning a debate', showing 'my experiment is better than the others' with the perception of the audience, 'competitor'. Consequently, students only deprecated the limits of different experiment so that they did not explore the meaning of each experiment design deeply. Eventually, student A's experiment design was selected due to time restrictions. When they elaborated upon their result, their epistemic goal shifted to 'scientific sensemaking', reviewing 'how this experiment design is scientifically valid' through scientific justification - we need justification to make members accept it - acting as 'cooperator'. Consequently, all members engaged in a productive argumentation that led to the development of the group result. This study lays the foundation for future work on understanding students' epistemic goals and considerations to prompt productive argumentation in science classrooms.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.519-531
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• 2004

In recent years, there has been an increased emphasis on performance assessment to evaluate students' abilities. Our nation has introduced a change in testing and assessment. Additional work on the efficacy, reliability, and comparability in order to develop the performance assessment item has been needed in the enforcement of the 7th National Science Curriculum. Also, criteria for professional and technical standards has been needed to be developed. The purpose of this study was to draw out various key concepts and to develop achievement standards, assessment standards and performance assessment items based on the 7th National Science Curriculum on the subject matter of reproduction(chapter 13) and biological accumulation(chapter 17). And also, this study examined the validity of completed performance assessment items based on classical test theory and polytomous item response theory. Twelve key concepts in chapter 13(reproduction) and four from chapter 17(biological accumulation) were abstracted. Twenty-six achievement standards in chapter 13(reproduction), and nine in chapter 17(biological accumulation) were developed. The achievement standards were determined in terms of knowledge(K), process skill(P) and attitude(A). Twenty-five assessment standards in chapter 13(reproduction) and nine in chapter 17(biological accumulation) were developed. Based on the developed achievement standards and assessment standards, twenty-two performance assessment items(seventeen open-ended questions, three essays, and two portfolios) with concrete grading criteria were developed. Eight open-ended items were applied to 240 10th graders to evaluate reliabilities of the test which consisted of four items per each chapter. The results would be suggested that the applied items were valid for performance assessment because item difficulties and item discriminations were proper. There was not much differences in item discrimination between interpretation from classical test theory and that from polytomous item response theory. However, there were some differences in item difficulties between the interpretations of two theories because the characteristics of examinees were reflected in classical test theory.

• The Korean Journal of Archival Studies
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• no.65
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• pp.365-396
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• 2020

I examined the archival basis of two historians who wrote history books with the same title of 'History'; Simaqian of ancient China and Herodotus of Halikarnassos. I examined a prejudice to these two history books, a misunderstanding of them as an imagination rather than a history. How can an imagination become a history? First, I explained the common characteristics found in their compilation and writing of 'History.' Simaqian and Herodotus did their field-works in historical sites, gathered oral-histories, and arranged archives they collected. These two historians heavily engaged in archival works in terms of verifying authenticity and reliability of their sources on the basis of historical empiricism. There are some misunderstanding on their archival endeavor and on the very nature of archives and historical studies as empirical studies. Furthermore, this misunderstanding regarding them as literature came from a confusion over the concept of literature. The creativity of literature is not equal to the "fictitiousness" of history despite historical works sometimes may give us an impression by the way of describing and providing insight into a certain event(s) and a person(s). As Herodotus said, a recognition of the differences of each race and human is a departure of historical archiving of the valuable experiences of human-beings. By doing so, natural results of archival behaviors, preservation of the records, and consistent inquiry of historian-archivists become a humanistic passage overcoming the current wrong trends of historical studies confined to a narrow nation-history.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture
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• v.38 no.2
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• pp.25-36
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• 2010

The generally known important functions of forests include air purification and the health benefits that humans can receive when relaxing and enjoying recreation in the forests. In recent years, people have appreciated the value of the natural environment but it is not easy to answer the question how much monetary value a natural environment has. Because environmental property is public property, which is not traded on the market, market prices cannot be established, so it is not easy to assess the currency value. Methods for estimating environmental property value have been studied by economists. The representative method for measuring environmental property value is a contingent valuation method, or CVM. Various methods have been researched and attempted along with the development and fusion of mathematics, statistics, and economics. Representative methods of CVM are single-bound and double-bound logit and probit methods. This study has been carried out to compare four estimates. Estimates are as follows: the lowest estimate is derived from a single-bound logit WTPmedian while the highest estimate is from double-bound probit WTPmean. While there are some preceding studies on price estimation and methods of measurement through CVM, they offer only partial comparisons. This study suggests four analytic methods and prices through 1,123 questionnaires. The results can be used for the subsequent comparison of estimate prices and the methods of measurement

• School Mathematics
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.101-120
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• 2013

International comparative studies of students' performance in mathematics have shown that Korean students possess very negative attitudes toward mathematics, while they are ranked as one of the highest in the cognitive achievement of mathematics. This has prompted mathematics educators to seek for a way to improve the quality of mathematics education. In this context, this research has been conducted to investigate the learning style of Korean middle school students under the assumption that it is of essence to understand the characteristics of our students as mathematics learners. For the purpose, in-depth interview had been conducted and sixteen middle students participated in the interview. The students were chosen to represent the average group of their age-cohorts based on their performance in mathematics and their SES. The interview was designed as a semi-structured clinical interview. In the interview, the students were given mathematical tasks dealing with central themes in the domain of function. Each student was given about 30 to 50 minutes to solve the tasks. After an interviewee finished the tasks, s/he was asked to explained how s/he solved the tasks. The researchers asked additional questions to clarify the students' understanding of the mathematical themes in the tasks and to identify their strategies for learning mathematics. The analysis of the in-depth interview has primarily identified the characteristics of the students' understanding of the main themes in function and then has been extended to investigate their characteristic styles for learning mathematics. The analysis of the interview identified the learning styles of the students as 'inductive learning based on prototypical cases', 'repeated practice of exemplar mathematics problems', 'disengaged learning', and 'double standards in learning mathematics'. Based on the results of the analysis, this research presents the implications for the improvement of mathematics education.

• The Korean Nurse
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• v.15 no.6 s.86
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• pp.42-60
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• 1976

1.행동특성별 제언 1 기본 지식면 첫째, 간호원리, 법칙에 관한 지식을 갖게 한다. 둘째, 간호학의 용어, 기호, 단어 및 개념에 대한 지식을 갖게 한다. 셋째, 간호원리, 의견, 활동을 검증하고 판단하는 기준에 관한 지식을 갖게 한다. 넷째, 간호현상의 과정, 경향, 원인, 순서에 관한 지식을 갖게 한다. 다섯째, 간호문제 요구를 처리하는데 필요한 수단 형식, 체제, 용법에 관한 지식을 갖게 한다. 여섯째, 학설에 관한 지식을 갖게 한다. 일곱째, 간호학 분야에서의 특수한 문제나 현상을 다루는데 쓰이는 탐구방법에 관한 지식을 갖게 한다. 여덟째, 간호 문제나 자료의 분류에 관한 지식을 갖게 한다. 아홉째, 특수한 사실의 성질, 특징, 정확성에 관한 지식을 갖게 한다. 제언 2 이해능력면 첫째, 간호문제를 창조적으로 해결하고 연구, 발전 시킬 수 있는 능력을 기른다. 둘째 간호현상을 정확하게 추리하고 검증하여 결론을 추출하며 진술하는 능력을 기른다. 셋째, 간호문제를 해석하고 자료를 재정리, 재배열, 또한 새로운 견지에서 해설하는 능력을 기른다. 넷째, 관찰된 간호현상을 설문화 또는 도표화 하는 능력을 기른다. 제언 3 태도면 첫째, 정서적 안정감을 유지하면서 환자와의 인간 관계를 원만하게 유지할 수 있는 태도를 기른다. 둘째, 확신을 갖고 간호활동에 임하는 태도를 기른다. 셋째, 한국사회가 필요로 하는 간호원의 역할을 스스로 감지 적응하고 간호활동 개선에 이바지하는 태도를 기른다. 넷째, 약품을 신중히 다루는 태도를 기른다. 다섯째, 새로운 직을 배워 개척하고자 하는 의욕을 갖게 한다. 제언 4 기능면 첫째, 환자를 이해하고 안정시킬 수 있는 능력을 갖게 한다. 둘째, 간호를 포괄적으로 수행할 수 있는 능력을 기른다. 셋째, 간호문제를 창의적으로 처리할 수 있는 능력을 기른다. 넷째, 새로운 간호지식이나 기술에 대해서 자율적으로 연수, 학습할 수 있는 능력을 기른다. 다섯째, 간호 문제에 대한 흥미와 호기심을 갖게 한다. 여섯째, 병실기구를 과학적이고 합리적으로 관리하는 기능을 기른다. 일곱째, 의료(진료)기구를 조작할 수 있는 능력을 기른다. 제언5 비판능력면 첫째, 간호문제나 현상 방법에 있어서 그 가치를 논리적 또는 주관적 기준에 의해 자료를 평가하는 능력을 기른다. 둘째, 일반적인 이론, 학설, 표준 사실에 입각해서 자료를 평가할 수 있는 능력을 기른다. 제언 6 분석능력면 첫째, 요소 및 부분들간의 관련과 상호작용 또는 인간관계를 관찰하고 분석할 수 있는 능력을 기른다. 둘째, 복잡한 간호문제를 부문별, 요소별로 분석하는 능력을 기른다. 셋째, 자료의 형태, 구조, 형식의 특징과 조직을 분석하는 능력을 기른다. 제언 7 종합 능력면 첫째, 간호계획 절차를 창안할 수 있는 능력을 기른다. 둘째, 자기의 생각을 효율적으로 전달하는 능력을 기른다. 셋째, 특수한 간호 현상이나 기본적 명제에서 어떤 추상적 관계를 연역해 낼 수 있는 능력을 기른다. 제언 8 응용능력면 첫째, 간호문제를 해결하는데 실제로 응용 할 수 있는 교육을 시킨다. 둘째, 간호이론을 구체적인 상황에 효율적으로 응용할 수 있는 능력을 기른다. 셋째, 지역사회의 특성에 알맞은 간호기술이나 간호절차를 창안할 수 있는 능력을 기른다. 넷째, 간호방법을 모색하고 이용하는 능력을 기른다. 다섯째, 조사를 통해 합리적이고 논리적인 결론을 내릴 수 있는 능력을 기른다.

• The Korean Journal of Ecology
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.191-202
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• 2001

Human being has extensively invaded, occupied, and used the natural environment as a consequence of the advance of civilization. Mankind has increasingly modified the environment for his own benefit. Such modification has not only caused the extinction of many other species but also, caused human being himself to confront to serious environmental problems. The recognition of this fact by human is expressed in the establishment and development of restoration ecology. This new study fold is, in fact, an "Eco-technology" directed towards healing of damages to the environment. The goal is to reestablish processes and functions in a damaged site, imitating the way of healing works that an integral natural system carries out. Ecological restoration uses different treatments and approaches according to extents of the existing damage and to the specific goal to be achieved. An ecological diagnosis is, therefore, required prior to restoration practice. The cost and efforts to achieve a proposed goal can be significantly reduced when a restoration plan is formulated upon the results of well-conducted ecological diagnosis. Under such perspectives, restoration ecology is a practical science, which aims to solve the problems of the real world based on the existing ecological principle. Furthermore, restoration ecology offers opportunities to test the ecological concepts and theories obtained by means of the former ecological studies. Human being exploited natural environment excessively for his comfort on one hand but damaged it inevitably on the other hand. Such intensive resource utilization and continuous environmental damaging will extend into the future and ultimately jeopardize the survival of humankind if no prompt action is taken. In the present situation, we must not continue such lives without any preparation. We have to cope with the environmental crises approaching near us by pursuing the ecological restoration that reduce the unnecessary use, recruit the deficient part, and strengthen the weak portion in our environment. Restoration ecology could be recognized as the ecology for the future in such viewpoints.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.13 no.11
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• pp.626-635
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• 2013

The purpose of this study is to research the practical cases of the reflective curriculum design and the improvement of the dance courses as a general education at University. This study deals with the recreation dance program with 40 students participating for 15 weeks. This study is qualitative research to explore the practical meaning and value the process on the basis of the interviews and reports of the students and the class evaluation of the instructors. The results were as follows: First is the experience of 'thinking dance'. Not just a functional movement, but moreover, they could experience the attraction, sensitivity and culture of the dance altogether. Second is the experience of 'communicating dance'. They experienced the sociability from the relationship with new partners, the overcome of the passivity (shyness) and the manner of consideration. The third is the experience of 'creating dance together'. As a member of a group, they could learn the integrity, responsibility and satisfaction in the middle of cooperative task performance. The view from the teacher regarding the class reflective assessment is as followed: The importance of dance instruction is to improve the expressive personality and potentiality of the students. Forcing the students to follow the basic choreography could be exhaustive.

• Journal of Engineering Education Research
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.12-23
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• 2008

The purpose of this study is to explore teaching and learning strategies through analyzing cases of foreign engineering education. With the analysis criteria composed of engineering education model, teaching and learning method, evaluation strategy, and technology supporting strategy, 10 foreign colleges of engineering in 5 countries were examined and analyzed. Teaching and learning strategies deduced from analysis state as follows. First of all, it need to develop engineering education models that reform should be made in systematic approach to teaching and learning, workplaces and laboratories, evaluation, technology support, etc. Secondly, the strategy for teaching and learning recommends supporting student directed learning, active learning participation, and collaboration learning by inductive learning strategies such as problem based learning, inquiry learning, project based learning, studio based learning, and blended learning. Thirdly, the evaluation strategy suggests that evaluation should be made to reflect students' learning and facilitate continuous learning based current learning results while it is necessary to build up a whole evaluation system. Finally, it is the educational technology approach for systematic engineering education that is required considering that many foreign colleges of engineering have reformed engineering education through technology supporting systems and are maximizing research and education in connection with other universities. This study is expected to contribute as preliminary data in developing further teaching and learning models and strategies for nurturing engineering students.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.98-110
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• 2005

This study aims to explore the usefulness and the way of practical use of dilemma episodes in science teacher education by the responses of teachers on the given dilemma episodes and connected discussions. The research based on the idea of constructivist teacher education, the assumption that dilemmas can provide teachers with an open investigation context, an understanding of nature of science education. The dilemmas episodes in Wallace and Louden(2002) were introduced and discussed in order during graduate course to 11 elementary teachers. Perception on the reality and importance of given dilemmas differed by topics, but many of them were very similar to their experiences, brought active discussion on the issues. Some could not arouse sympathy because of cultural differences. The teachers recognized the dilemma episodes provided thoughtful reflection on their own teaching, opportunity of sharing experience and knowledge with peers, overall view for science education. Most of them gave positive opinion on the use of dilemma episodes in teacher education. Upon these teachers' responses and exploratory research experiences, some practical suggestion were made for science teacher educators.