• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.37 no.5
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• pp.891-909
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• 2017

This study analyzed some of the discrepancies in quantitative and qualitative data focusing on cognitive and affective achievement in science education. Academic and affective achievement score of 308 high school students were collected as quantitative data, and 33 students were interviewed for qualitative data. We examined the causes and types of discrepancies in terms of testing tools. As a result from quantitative data, there were a large number of students with a big difference between subjects in cognitive achievement, and constructs in affective achievement. More than 20% of the students did not match tendency between achievements in two areas. Through interviews, some examples such as intentional control of science learning for future study and careers, different responses by differences in perception between school science and science, appeared. A comparison of quantitative data by testing tool between qualitative ones and interviews showed conflicting result, where most students evaluated themselves differently from their own quantitative data. That is due to the students' interaction with the testing tools. Two types of discrepancy related to testing tool are found. One is 'the concept difference between the item developer and students,' the other is 'the difference between students' exposed response and their real mindset.' These are related to the ambiguity of the terms used in the tool and response bias due to various causes. Based on this study, an effort is required to elaborate the testing item that matches students' actual perception and to apply students' science learning experience to testing items.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.297-311
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• 2011

This study is about research into 'National Assessment of Educational Achievement (NAEA)' and 'College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT)' in 5 metropolitan cities and analysis of the result. The objects of study are the materials of mathematics grade of NAEA from 2003 to 2009 and mathematics items of CSAT from 1994 to 2010. The contents of the study are followings. First, the trends of mathematics score of NAEA in elementary, middle and high school is analyzed according to gender, establishment type and the type of school. Second, the trends of CSAT is analyzed according to gender and line (cultural science line or natural science line). Also the trends of application number for cultural science line and natural science line. Third, the trends of the achievement test score of 6th grade in elementary school, third grade in middle school, first grade in high school and the CSAT score in third grade in high school for the same group is considered.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Industry Society
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.481-490
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• 2004

Today, most education activities in the junior or senior schools are connected with evaluation. In fact, the evaluation to be accomplished is not the practice of college or university entrance examination but the evaluation analysis of studies accomplishment. In this program, students process their teaming contents according to their level, and they evaluate the accomplishment of learning by themselves. Through the various analysis of evaluation, students who are not in the appropriate level get into the learning plan of low level course. This study makes them notice the lack of teaming ability in time and proposes proper evaluation system which offers right feedbacks and various analysis information for themselves.

• School Mathematics
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.113-136
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• 2010

According to the self-assessment tool identifying teacher's competence in assessment, many teachers have difficulty in making assessment tools. This study analyzes the types of modification with data of NAEA(National Assessment of Educational Achievement) items from 2006 to 2008. NAEA goes through complicated formalities from begin to make draft items to completing them. This study shows the types of item modification and its specific examples. NAEA analyzes the degrees of studuents' achievement according to the educational objectives of the National Curriculum. This study provides specific comments on making mathematics assessment items to the teachers who embody national curriculem. Therefore this study will contribute to improve mathematics teacher's professional competence in the area of assessment tool development.

• Journal of Science Education
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• v.42 no.2
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• pp.198-213
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• 2018

In recent years, descriptive evaluation has been gaining importance at school. The purpose of this study is to analyse descriptive evaluation items which have been made by school teachers. 300 items for regular examinations are collected from 7 middle schools (grades 1 through 3) in Gyeongnam Province. Distribution and types of items are examined to compare educational objectives of standard achievements and those of evaluation according to Bloom's revised taxonomy of educational objectives. The result shows that there exist a majority of shared subject units for descriptive evaluation. Huge difference of frequency is also found among subject units and standard achievements. Less than 65% of evaluation items are descriptive and the rest is simple completion or short answers. In addition, it reveals only 40.3% of agreement between educational objectives of standard achievements and those of evaluation items. The interviews with 27 teachers indicate that lack of ability to develop proper items and grading are the major obstacles. In conclusion, systematic training courses are to be provided in order to resolve issues over descriptive evaluation.

• Journal of the Korean School Mathematics Society
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.441-457
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• 2016

The purpose of this study is to analyze Korean students' mathematics achievement characteristics and draw implications for better math education in schools through comparing the results of three east Asian top level countries, Korea, Singapore, and Japan in PISA 2012 results. As a results, the rate of correct answers of Korea students was relatively low compared with those of Singapore, but relatively higher than Japan. From the results of effect size, similar results from t-test was discovered. As shown in analysis according to sub-elements in math assessment framework, the Korean students had low effect size in every sub-elements than Singapore. and they had high effect size at most of sub-elements than Japan, except "personal" context. In top performing level(above level 5), the Korean students had high effect size at "quantities" in mathematical contents, and "employ" in mathematical processes compared with Singapore. And they had row effect size at 6 sub-elements compared with Japan.

• Journal of the Korean association of regional geographers
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.195-212
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• 2017

This study analyzed on the content validity of the Korean geography subject evaluation questions on the College Scholastic Ability Test(CSAT) from 2014 to 2016 regarding the national curriculum achievement standards. The main results are as follows. First, from 'the knowledge dimension' aspect, both the achievement standard and the CSAT questions showed the highest ratio of 'factual knowledge'. Second, from 'the cognitive process dimension' aspect, the percentage of 'understand' was the highest in the achievement standard, whereas in the CSAT questions, the ratio of 'analyze' and complex type of 'analyze' and 'understand' was the highest. Third, in the result of the analysis of the content validity of the Korean geography CSAT questions through proportion test, all of the analysis targets showed 'a little low'. Finally, the content validity analysis showed that there was a significant difference between the main types of the achievement standards and the CSAT questions in the 'Geomorphological Environment and Ecosystem part' and 'Space of Production and Consumption part' from the cognitive process aspect, which showed relatively low content validity compared to other areas. The results of this study suggest that the achievement standards should be reflected on the Korean geography CSAT questions and it should not be focused on evaluating the learner's analysing ability.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.34 no.7
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• pp.647-655
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• 2014

The purpose of this study is to acquire teaching insights for improving scientific literacy by analyzing the effects of scientific communication skills, science process skills, and logical thinking skills of elementary school students on academic achievement level. The participants are 64, sixth grade elementary school students. Survey materials include the results of Scientific Communication Skill Test (SCST), Test of Science Process Skills (TSPS), Group Assessment of Logical Thinking (GALT), multiple choice test & short answer test, descriptive answer test on science, and academic achievement level test on all subjects. Based on these data, the study analyzed the relationships of science process skills, logical thinking skills, and scientific communication skills, and each category's effect on academic achievement level. Furthermore, under the assumption that scientific communication skills are affected by science process skills and logical thinking skills and directly influence the academic level, the research discovered three types of correlations as a structural model. The results show that there are considerable correlations in scientific communication skills, science process skills, and logical thinking skills. Also, these three abilities have meaningful correlations with learner's writing and descriptive question level on science curriculum and overall academic achievement level; the level of correlation differ a bit by subcategory factors. In conclusion, setting the model, science process skills and logical thinking skills influence scientific communication skill, and the skill directly influences the learner's academic level. Further analysis of the results show that scientific communication skill influences the academic achievement level of all subjects the most.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society of Elementary Mathematics Education
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• 2010.08a
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• pp.157-172
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• 2010

본 연구는 현행 초등학교에서 이루어지고 있는 서술형 평가의 유형과 문제점을 분석해 보고 2007개정 교육과정에 따른 수학과 서술형 예시 평가 문항을 개발해 보는데 목표가 있다. 학교에서 시행되고 있는 평가 자료의 분석은 수학교과서, 국가수준 학업성취도 평가지, 서울시 교육청 보급 2010 장학자료집, 서울시내 학교에서 시행되고 있는 평가 문항을 분석해 보았다. 그리고 예시 서술형 평가 문항개발은 2007개정 교육과정에 따른 수학과 4학년을 대상으로 하였다. 평가 문항 분석의 결과는 문항 유형이 단순하고 교과서와 장학자료집의 수준을 벗어나지 못하고 있으며 창의성 영역의 평가는 거의 이루어지고 있지 않았다. 서술형 예시평가 문항의 개발은 수학과의 내용영역과 인지적 영역뿐 아니라 교육계의 화두가 되고 있는 창의성 영역까지 평가내용으로 포함시키고자 노력하였으며 영역별 1-2 문항을 개발하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.25 no.10
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• pp.261-268
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• 2020

In this paper, we propose an effective software education model for youths with disability. This software education model consists of a four-step process. In the first step, it draws the education curriculum of the software education for different types of disabled youths based on the results of comparative analysis of software education field in special education curriculum. In the second step, it suggests achievement standards for effective software education for the disabled students by classifying students with intellectual disabilities and visual, hearing, and physical disabilities without any multiple disabilities. In the third step, the study developed a modular textbook comprised of unplugged activities using coding robot Albert, physical computing, and block/text coding with the reflection of the characteristic of each type of disability. In the fourth step, it applied the textbook to the school field and educated disabled students focusing on experience to allow them to think logically and by stages about different problems they face in daily lives. In addition, by analyzing the results of youths' performance evaluation and surveys, it was shown that 82.3% of developmental disabilities, 78.8% of visual impairments, 90.9% of hearing impairments, and 78.8% of physically disabilities achieved achievements above the "medium" level. These results prove that the software education model for youths with disabilities proposed in this paper is very effective in improving computational chinking of youths with disabilities.