• 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.

• Proceedings of The KACE
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• 2018.08a
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• pp.129-132
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• 2018

미래사회가 요구하는 창의융합형 인재 육성을 위한 기초소양 함양을 위해 소프트웨어 교육이 의무화되는 등 컴퓨팅 사고력과 지능정보사회에 필요한 핵심역량인 협력적 문제해결력의 향상을 위한 소프트웨어 교육에서의 교수 학습 방법이 강조되고 있다. 이에 따라 본 연구에서는 감성적 사고와 창의적 사고력의 균형을 추구하는 디자인 사고와 실생활 맥락적 문제를 해결하는 메이커 활동을 결합한 디자인 사고 기반 메이커교육을 소프트웨어 교육에 적용하여 초등학생의 협력적 문제해결력에 미치는 영향을 검증하고자 한다. 이를 통하여 디자인 사고기반 메이커 교육의 학습효과를 밝히고, 초등학교 수업에서 다른 교과목과 융합한 소프트웨어 교육의 적용방법에 대한 시사점을 제공하고자 한다.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.37 no.3
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• pp.523-537
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• 2017

The purpose of this study is to investigate the features of elementary students' intuitive thinking emerged during problem solving activities as it related to thermal phenomena, focusing on when intuitive thinking appears and how it is related to logical thinking. For this, we presented a problem related to thermal phenomena to nine 5th-grade students, and examined how students' thinking emerged in the activities. We conducted clinical interviews to investigate the thinking process of students. The results of this study are as follows. First, students made their own solutions and justified it later during the emergence process of intuitive thinking. It was also found that students connected concrete materials and abstract concepts intuitively. They solved the problem by making predictions even when information is insufficient. Second, it was shown that intuitive thinking can emerge through the intended strategies such as drawing a mental image, thinking from a different perspective, and integrating methods. These results, which are related to the students' intuitive thinking has received little attention and will be the basis for helping students in the context of discovery of their problem solving activities.

• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.80-80
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• 2002

The main thesis of this article is that the decisive point of creativity education is the cultivation of critical thinking capability. Although the narrow conception of creativity as divergent thinking is not subsumed under that of critical thinking, the role of divergent thinking is not so crucial in the science context of creative problem-solving. On the contrary, the broad conception of creativity as focusing on the reference to utility and the third conception of creativity as a process based on the variation and combination of existing pieces of information are crucial in creative problem-solving context, which are yet subsumed under that of critical thinking. The emphasis on critical thinking education is connected with the characteristics of contemporary knowledge-based society. This rapidly changing society requires situation-adaptive or situation-sensitive cognitive ability, whose core is critical thinking capability. Hence, the education of critical thinking is to be centered on the learning of blowing-how and procedural knowledge but not of knowing-that and declarative knowledge. Accordingly, the learning of critical thinking is to be headed towards the cultivation of competence but not just of performance. In conclusion, when a rational problem-solving through critical and logical thinking turns out consequently to be novel, we call it creative thinking. So, creativity is an emergent property based on critical and logical thinking.

• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.81-90
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• 2002

The main thesis of this article is that the decisive point of creativity education is the cultivation of critical thinking capability. Although the narrow conception of creativity as divergent thinking is not subsumed under that of critical thinking, the role of divergent thinking is not so crucial in the science context of creative problem-solving. On the contrary, the broad conception of creativity as focusing on the reference to utility and the third conception of creativity as a process based on the variation and combination of existing pieces of information are crucial in creative problem-solving context, which are yet subsumed under that of critical thinking. The emphasis on critical thinking education is connected with the characteristics of contemporary knowledge-based society. This rapidly changing society requires situation-adaptive or situation-sensitive cognitive ability, whose core is critical thinking capability. Hence, the education of critical thinking is to be centered on the learning of blowing-how and procedural knowledge but not of knowing-that and declarative knowledge. Accordingly, the learning of critical thinking is to be headed towards the cultivation of competence but not just of performance. In conclusion, when a rational problem-solving through critical and logical thinking turns out consequently to be novel, we call it creative thinking. So, creativity is an emergent property based on critical and logical thinking.

• Journal of Elementary Mathematics Education in Korea
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.99-115
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• 2007

The purpose of this study was to look into whether this mathematising learning utilizing realistic context has an effect on the mathematical thinking. To solve the above problem, two 5th grade classes of D Elementary School in Seoul were selected for performing necessary experiments with one class designated as an experimental group and the other class as a comparative group. Throughout 17 times for six weeks, the comparative group was educated with general mathematics learning by mathematics and "mathematics practices," while the experimental group was taught mainly with mathematising learning using realistic context. As a result, to start with, in case of the experimental group that conducted the mathematising learning utilizing realistic coherence, in the analogical and developmental thoughts which are mathematical thoughts related to the methods of mathematics, in the thinking of expression and the one of basic character which are mathematical thoughts related to the contents of mathematics, and in the thinking of operation, the average points were improved more than the comparative group, also having statistically significant differences. The study suggested that it is necessary to conduct subsequent studies that can verify by expanding to each grade, sex and region, develop teaching methods suitably to the other content domains and purposes of figures, and demonstrate the effects. In addition to those, evaluation tools which can evaluate the mathematical thinking processes of children appropriately and in more diversified methods will have to be developed. Furthermore, in order to maximize mathematising for each group in each mathematising process, it would be necessary to make efforts for further developing realistic problem situations, works and work sheets, which are adequate to the characteristics of the upper and lower groups.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.51 no.4
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• pp.279-311
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• 2020

People collectively understand and often use information and knowledge as terms in a variety of contexts without concern nor discussion of their many competing conceptual and theoretical definitions. The concepts of information and knowledge are intrinsically linked and suffer some of the same problems when scholars try to define them, especially when truth is a prerequisite. This theory paper presents a simple thought experiment that relates the reliabilist and truth-tracking analyses of knowledge with the physical and cognitive paradigms of information, respectively. The results of the thought experiment are discussed within the context of the Post-Truth era, with implications and applications for information literacy.

• Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.101-115
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• 2012

Analogy, a plausible reasoning on the basis of similarity, is one of the thinking strategy for concept formation, problem solving, and new discovery in many disciplines. Statistics educators argue that analogy can be used as an useful thinking strategy in statistics as well. This study investigated the characteristics of students' analogical thinking in statistics. The mathematically gifted were asked to construct similar problems to a base problem which is a statistical problem having a statistical context. From the analysis of the problems, students' new problems were classified into five types on the basis of the preservation of the statistical context and that of the basic structure of the base problem. From the result, researchers provide some implications. In statistics, the problems, which failed to preserve the statistical context of base problem, have no meaning in statistics. However, the problems which preserved the statistical context can give possibilities for reconceptualization of the statistical concept even though the basic structure of the problem were changed.

• Journal of the KSME
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.366-376
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• 1988

피로에 있어서 해결되지 않은 문제는 현재도 허다하여 많은 연구가 필요하나, 현재까지의 지식 으로도 크나 큰 피로파괴사고는 충분히 방지할 수 있다고 저자는 생각하고 있다. 본고의 파손 해소예로부터도 어느 정도 추측이 가능하듯이 현재의 파괴사고의 대부분은 인위적인 것이다. 인위적인 파괴사고를 방지하는 방법의 하나는 합리적인 설계 및 보수, 관리시스템을 확립하는 것일 것이다. 당해기술이 현재도 미흡한 국내에서는 그 필요성이 더욱 절실히 느껴져, 본고에서 소개한 건전성 평가절차도 그러한 맥락에서 이루어지고 있다.

• Proceedings of the ESK Conference
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• 1997.04a
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• pp.61-71
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• 1997

큰 사고가 일어날 때마다 '안전관리는 그 무엇보다도 중요하다'라고 강조하지만 우리나라 안전 관리의 현 상황은 열악하다고 할 수밖에 없다. 많은 중소기업이나 심지어 대기업에서도 무의식적 으로 등한시하거나 별로 크게 중요하게 여기는 것 같지는 않은 데, 이것은 현재의 사고발생율과 강도율들을 살펴 보면 누구나 쉽게 공감할 수 있을 것이다. 이러한 맥락에서 이 논문은 안전의 또 하나의 사각지대인 호텔관련업에서의 종사원들은 과연안전에 대하여 어떤 사고방식을 가지고 있으며, 실제 그들의 안전사고는 어떤 것들이며, 안전교육의 효과는 어떠한 가 등을 중점적으로 연구하였다. 실증적 분석에서는 안전관리가 어떻게 이루어 지고 있는 가에 대한 설문조사를 통하여 조사분석하였다. 조사 표본대상으로는 우리나라의 특급 호텔4개와 1개의 콘도미니엄 종사원들을 대상으로 하여 설문지를 배포하여 총 207명에 대한 답변을 토대로 분석을 하였다. 부상내용은 칼종류에 베임이 제일 많았으며, 안전사고의 주원인은 불안전한 자세와 불안전한 행동으로서 이에 대한 교육이 요구된다. 직업과 관련된 육체적 고통으로는 만성피로가 가장 많았다. 그외 구두가 발에 피로감을 주지말 것, 주방의 미끄럼방지, VDT증후군예방, 안전체조 및 구호복창 등의 사항들을 안전사고 예방을 위해 주의해야할 사항으로 요약할 수 있다.