• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.131-154
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• 2014

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of essay writing-centered mathematics instruction on problem solving and mathematical deposition in the elementary school. For the present study, two 6th grade classes with equivalent achievement in terms of problem solving and mathematical disposition based on the pretest. A total of 15 mathematics lessons focused on writing activities were administered to the experiment group for two months, while the textbook-based traditional lessons were given to the comparison group. Both quantitative and qualitative methods were adopted to analyze the data. The results of the present study showed that essay writing-centered mathematics teaching is statistically superior that the textbook-based mathematics teaching with respect to students' problem solving and mathematical disposition. In addition, it was evidenced that essay writing-centered mathematics instruction makes an influence on students' perceptions toward essay-based assessment in a positive way.

• Journal of Science Education
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• v.46 no.1
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• pp.121-149
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• 2022

Descriptive assessment is a meaningful assessment method in relation to problem solving ability, reasoning ability, and communication ability as emphasized in mathematics curriculum. In Korea, as performance assessment has been emphasized since the 7th mathematics curriculum, descriptive assessment is being conducted as a method of performance assessment in schools. However, descriptive assessment has not been introduced in the university scholastic ability test for various reasons. Considering that descriptive assessment is emphasized in the mathematics classroom and has sufficient educational value, a serious discussion on the implementation of descriptive assessment in the university scholastic ability test will be necessary. In this study, we analyzed the descriptive assessment of Russia's unified state examination (USE) in the mathematics, which corresponds to Korea's university scholastic ability test. Through a literature review, we investigated how mathematics examination problems were structured in the USE and which mathematical abilities were required for the examination. In particular, the outer structure of the problems was analyzed focusing on the mathematics problems of the USE 2021, and the scoring method of the descriptive problems was also analyzed. The results of this study are expected to provide a variety of information on the possibility of introducing descriptive assessment in the Korean university scholastic ability tests.

• Journal of Elementary Mathematics Education in Korea
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.195-219
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• 2006

This study was proposed to analyze mathematical communication activity and mathematical attitudes while students were solving project problem and to consider how the conclusions effects mathematics education. This study analyzed through qualitative research method. The questions for this study are following, First, how does the process of the mathematical communication activity proceed during solving project problem in a small group? Second, what reactions can be shown on mathematical attitudes during solving project problem in a small group? Four project problems sampled from pilot study in order to examine these questions were applied on two small groups consisting of four 5th grade students. It was recorded while each group was finding out the solution of the given problems. Afterward, consequences were analyzed according to each question after all contents were noted. Consequently, conclusions can be derived as follows. First, it was shown that each student used different elements of contents in mathematical communication activity. Second, during mathematical communication activity, most students preferred common languages to mathematical ones. Third, it was found that each student has their own mathematical attitude. Fourth, Students were more interested in the game project problem and the practical using project problem than others.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2023.11a
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• pp.23-26
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• 2023

본 논문에서는 서술형 수학 문제 풀이 모델의 숫자 대소관계 파악을 위한 명시적 자질추출방식 Explicit Feature Extraction(EFE) Reasoner 모델을 제안한다. 서술형 수학 문제는 자연현상이나 일상에서 벌어지는 사건을 수학적으로 기술한 문제이다. 서술형 수학 문제 풀이를 위해서는 인공지능 모델이 문장에 함축된 논리를 파악하여 수식 또는 답을 도출해야 한다. 때문에 서술형 수학 문제 데이터셋은 인공지능 모델의 언어 이해 및 추론 능력을 평가하는 지표로 활용되고 있다. 기존 연구에서는 문제를 이해할 때 숫자의 대소관계를 파악하지 않고 문제에 등장하는 변수의 논리적인 관계만을 사용하여 수식을 도출한다는 한계점이 존재했다. 본 논문에서는 자연어 이해계열 모델 중 SVAMP 데이터셋에서 가장 높은 성능을 내고 있는 Deductive-Reasoner 모델에 숫자의 대소관계를 파악할 수 있는 방법론인 EFE 를 적용했을 때 RoBERTa-base 에서 1.1%, RoBERTa-large 에서 2.8%의 성능 향상을 얻었다. 이 결과를 통해 자연어 이해 모델이 숫자의 대소관계를 이해하는 것이 정답률 향상에 기여할 수 있음을 확인한다.

• Journal of Elementary Mathematics Education in Korea
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.297-318
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• 2014

This study is designed for helping elementary school teachers have an insight into making or choosing questions of descriptive assessment in mathematics. For this, it is analyzed 30 descriptive mathematical questions produced by Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education in 2011 and 2012 and 3rd to 6th grade students' papers marked by their teachers in charge from 2 elementary schools located in Gyeonggi Province. The main focus of analysis is the errors of students' answers and teachers' marking not from their own mistakes but from the defects of questions themselves. As a result of analysis, 7 cases of problematic situations are induced and they are reorganized into 3 categories as follow: i) case of not performing unique purpose of descriptive assessment, ii) case of inducing the problem of fairness of grading, iii) case of leading students erroneous direction.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2022.05a
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• pp.568-571
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• 2022

본 논문에서는 서술형 수학 문제의 자동 풀이 기술 개발을 위한 데이터 증강 기법인 MOO 를 제안한다. 서술형 수학 문제는 일상에서의 상황을 수학적으로 기술한 자연어 문제로, 인공지능 모델로 이 문제를 풀이하는 기술은 활용 가능성이 높아 국내외에서 다양하게 연구되고 있으나 데이터의 부족으로 인해 성능 향상에서의 한계가 늘 존재해 왔다. 본 논문은 이를 해결하기 위해 시중의 수학 문제들을 수집하여 템플릿을 구축하고, 템플릿에 적합한 풀이계획을 생성할 수 있는 중간 언어인 MOOLang 을 통해 생성된 문제에 대응하는 Python 코드 형태의 풀이와 정답을 생성할 수 있는 데이터 증강 방법을 고안하였다. 이 기법을 통해 생성된 데이터로 기존의 최고 성능 모델인 KoEPT를 통해 학습을 시도해본 결과, 생성된 데이터셋을 통해 모델이 원활하게 데이터셋의 분포를 학습할 수 있다는 것을 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.59 no.5
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• pp.445-453
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• 2015

In 2005, descriptive assessment was introduced to increase students’ higher mental ability like problem-solving ability and creativity. Every year the ratio of descriptive assessment increases and it is regarded as an alternative evaluation to a multiple-choice item which measures simplicity knowledge. Externally the descriptive assessment took a root in school, but we can’t say definitely that it meets its original goal. In this paper, science descriptive assessment items of 5 middle schools in Gyeonggi-do were analysed; examiners was interviewed about how well they understood the characteristic of the assessment items. According to the analysis, characteristic of the items are ① unequal distribution of unit, ② difference of item’s type by unit, and ③ disappearance of measuring higher mental ability. It is considered that there are several factors of these characteristic - the lack of teachers’ ability to make assessment item; understanding of assessment instrument. These factors can be explained by the lack of assessment expertise. So the society’s effort is needed to raise teacher’s ability for the descriptive assessment.

• Journal of Elementary Mathematics Education in Korea
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.885-905
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• 2010

This study questions that mathematical evaluations strive to memorize fragmentary knowledge and have an objective test. To solve these problems on mathematical education We did descriptive test. Through the descriptive test, students think and express their ideas freely using mathematical terms. We want to know if that procedure is correct or not, and, if they understand what was being presented. We studied this because We want to analyze where and what kinds of faults they committed, and be able to correct an error so as to establish a correct mathematical concept. The result from this study can be summarized as the following; First, the mistakes students make when solving the descriptive tests can be divided into six things: error of question understanding, error of concept principle, error of data using, error of solving procedure, error of recording procedure, and solving procedure omissions. Second, students had difficulty with the part of the descriptive test that used logical thinking defined by mathematical terms. Third, errors pattern varied as did students' ability level. For high level students, there were a lot of cases of the solving procedure being correct, but simple calculations were not correct. There were also some mistakes due to some students' lack of concept understanding. For middle level students, they couldn't understand questions well, and they analyzed questions arbitrarily. They also have a tendency to solve questions using a wrong strategy with data that only they can understand. Low level students generally had difficulty understanding questions. Even when they understood questions, they couldn't derive the answers because they have a shortage of related knowledge as well as low enthusiasm on the subject.

• Journal of the Korean School Mathematics Society
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.275-290
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• 2014

This study aims to examine how secondary mathematics teachers perceive and how they use constructed-response assessment in their mathematics classrooms. For this purpose, we conducted a survey in Seoul, Inchun, and Gyeonggi-do; 189 teachers participated in the survey. Results from the data analysis suggest as follows: a) the secondary mathematics teachers participated in the survey seem to consider the primary goals of assessment through constructed-response items as evaluating student achievement and the development of students' thinking and creativity; b) the teachers perceive that constructed-response assessment would promote students' mathematical thinking and problem solving skills; c) in general, constructed-response items were included in both performance assessment(less than 20 percent) and paper-and-pencil test(20 to 40 percent); and d) constructed-response items were primarily used as a part of regular examination, rather than as an independent assessment.

• Journal of Elementary Mathematics Education in Korea
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.63-95
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• 2012

Since performance assessment was implemented for 10 years, a survey has been carried out from 212 elementary school teachers in Seoul area in terms of their perception and status about descriptive assessment. As results, most of teachers agreed strongly that using constructed-response items is necessary for assessment, and they showed that purpose of using constructed-response items in their mathematics classrooms was to evaluate accurately student achievement in accordance with learning objectives in mathematics and they referred mainly to items which they modified from problems or items in the textbook when they generate constructed-response items. In addition, they considered level of difficulty in creating constructed-response items mostly. Moreover, they indicated that the effects of assessment through constructed-response items would be improvement of students' problem solving and reasoning skills.