• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.17 no.11
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• pp.242-251
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• 2017

For the purposes of this research, a corpus of words was created from the English textbooks of the "First Middle School" for the gifted in North Korea, and using the corpus, their linguistic characteristics were analyzed. Although there have been many studies that identified the traits of English textbooks in the North Korea's general middle school, not much focus has been placed on the English textbooks used at North Korea's First Middle School. Initially, the structure of English textbooks of the first, second, fourth, and sixth grades that had been procured from the Information Center on North Korea was reviewed, after which their corpus was created. Then, by using Wordsmith Tools 7.0, linguistic properties and high frequency content words appeared in the English textbook of the first grade were analyzed specifically. Basic statistical data gathered indicated that while the number of vocabulary did not increase as students progress through the grades, the words used tended to diversify incrementally. In the mean time, a distribution of the high frequency content words by grade illustrated that a big difference was found between the content words used in the English texts of each grade, and it was a subject matter of the texts that determined such difference.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.740-749
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• 2002

The purpose of this study was to survey junior high school teachers' and students' perceptions on the science textbooks. Subjects of this study were 113 science teachers and 715 students from junior high schools in Daegu and Kyungpook area. As statistical method, one-way ANOVA and t-test were used to check differences of the perceptions between teachers and students. Teachers had different perceptions by school location and class size, while students had different perceptions by school location, co-ed, class size, and grade level. Both teachers and students having the relativistic viewpoint on textbook knowledge regarded the knowledge as relativistic one, and preferred the student-centered textbooks. Teachers liked textbooks written by the student-centered view more than students did. Teachers had the more absolutistic viewpoint on textbook knowledge and on teaching, while students liked the electronic textbooks more than teachers did.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.19 no.12
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• pp.487-494
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• 2021

This study aims to find out how the leadership type of middle school soccer coach affects sport flow and team atmosphere, and the results are as follows. First, as a result of analyzing the demographic characteristics, it was found that there was a significant difference in the peer relationship characteristics of the team atmosphere by the variable of age, and the mutual leadership by the variable of life period with coach. Second, as a result of examining the influence of middle school soccer coach's leadership type on sport flow, it was found that among leadership types, servant leadership affected all sub-factors of sport flow and transformational leadership affected behavioral flow. Third, as a result of examining the effect of middle school soccer coach's leadership type on team atmosphere, it was found that all leadership types had an effect on the role characteristics, which are the sub-factors of team atmosphere, servant leadership on the peer relationship characteristics, and transactional leadership on the team characteristics.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.263-272
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• 2016

The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of flipped learning on science achievement, science interest, and intrinsic motivation in middle school science course. In order to achieve the purpose of this study, data was collected from 90 7th graders who were assigned to the experimental group(flipped learning class) or comparison group(lecture class) in Seoul. After collecting data, we examined mean difference between teaching method using ANCOVA. The results of this study were as follows: The flipped learning is associated with significant improvements in science achievement and science interest. However, the flipped learning is not associated with significant improvements in intrinsic motivation. This study was investigated effects of the flipped learning and expanded the understanding of the flipped learning.

• The Mathematical Education
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• v.58 no.3
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• pp.459-481
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• 2019

This study aims to investigate students' statistical thinking through statistical processes in different instructional settings: Teacher-centered instruction vs. student-centered learning. We first developed instructional materials that allowed students to experience all the processes of statistics, including data collection, data analysis, data representation, and interpretation of the results. Using the instructional materials for four classes, we collected and analyzed the data from 57 seventh graders' discourse and artifacts from two different instructional settings using the analytic framework generated on the basis of literature review. The results showed that students felt difficulty particularly in the process of data collection and graph representations. In addition, even though data description has been heavily emphasized for data analysis in statistics education, it is surprisingly discovered that students had a hard time to understand the relationship between data and representations. Also, there were relationships between students' statistical thinking and instructional settings. Even though both groups of students showed difficulty in data collection and graph representations of the data, there were significant differences between the groups in terms of their performance. Whereas students from student-centered learning class outperformed in making decisions considering verification and justification, students from teacher-centered lecture class did better in problems requiring accuracy than the counterpart. The results from the study provide meaningful implications on developing curriculum and instructional methods for statistics education.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.336-344
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• 2019

The Ministry of Education (2015) announced the "2015 Revised Curriculum for Elementary and Secondary Schools" and announced that SW (Software) training for elementary and junior high school students to develop Computational Thinking will be gradually introduced from 2018. In addition, 'problem solving' and 'programming' have become important areas. Furthermore, the ability to analyze and utilize big data is becoming more emphasized. We developed and applied the statistical - Python programming convergence curriculum based on the idea that convergence education combining information and mathematics, programming and statistical literacy is needed according to current trends. Before and after the experiment, problem solving ability test and programming / mathematical interest test were conducted and compared with the corresponding sample t-test. According to the analysis results, there were significant differences in the pre- and post-test on problem solving ability, programming interest and mathematical interest at the significance level of 0.05.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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• v.25 no.9
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• pp.1563-1570
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• 2001

이 연구의 목적은 중학교 의생활수업에 대한 창의적 문제해결 수업모형 적용에 있어 창의성 증진효과를 검증하는데 있다. 연구는 중학교 1학년 2개 학급의 남·녀 81명의 학생을 대상으로 하였으며, 가정과 의복의 재활용 단원 수업을 실험반과 비교반으로 나누어 동일한 교사에 의해 주당2시간씩 4회 실시하였다 실험반에는 창의적 문제 해결 수업모형이 적용되었으며, 비교반에는 전통적 수업이 적용되었다. 창의성검사는 한국창의성연구소의 창의성 검사지를 사용하였으며, 사전검사와 사후검사가 동일 검사지로 이루어졌다. 자료의 분석은 사전검사에서 두 학급간의 창의성에 의미있는 차이가 나타나, 두 학급간의 창의성의 차검증에서 사전검사의 영향력을 배제하기 위하여 ANCOVA분석을 실시하였다. 분석 결과 창의성의 유창성 , 융통성 , 독창성 세 개의 하위요인 점수와 이를 합산한 전체 창의성 점수에서 모두 창의적 문제해결 수업 모형을 적용한 실험반의 점수가 통계적으로 의미 있게 높은 것으로 나타났다 이러한 결과를 통하여 볼 때 창의적 문제해결 수업모형을 의생활 수업에 적용하였을 때 창의성이 증진된다고 할 수 있으며 , 중학교 뿐 아니라 고등학교 및 초등학교에서의 창의성 증진을 목표로 하는 의생활 수업에도 적용 가능할 것으로 보며 후속 연구의 수행을 제안하는 바이다.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.191-198
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• 2011

In this paper, we examine the different viewpoints of teachers and undergraduates on middle school informatics textbook. For this research, a survey is conducted on middle school informatics teachers and undergraduates who are preparing the state examination for informatics-computer teachers. Items of the survey were chosen to investigate the level of completion on the contents and structure of the textbook and to examine overall satisfaction with the textbook. Seven items concerning the level of completion are based on national textbook authorization criteria. A t-test was performed to analyze meaningful difference in perception of textbook between the teacher and student groups. The result shows there is meaningful difference on two items which are 'compliance with informatics curriculum' and 'content selection and organization'.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.385-392
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• 2006

This study investigated the effects of weekly reports as a method for encouraging student questions in middle school science instruction by focusing on student conceptual understanding, achievement, concept map, and perceptions of weekly reports. Seventh graders (N=211) from a middle school were assigned to control and weekly reports (WR) groups. All students were taught about the 'three states of matter', the 'motion of molecules', and the 'change of states and thermal energy' for eighteen class hours. Students in the WR group were required to write weekly reports for six of those periods. Results revealed that conception test scores for the WR group were significantly higher than those for the control group. Compared conception test scores by learning strategy, students using a surface learning strategy in the WR group scored significantly higher than those in the control group. While students employing a deep learning strategy in the WR group also performed better than those in the control group, the difference was relatively small. The scores of an achievement test and a concept map test for the WR group were significantly higher than those for the control group. However, there were no significant interactions between instruction and students' learning strategy in the two variables. It was also found that most students in the WR group positively perceived weekly reports.

• The Mathematical Education
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• v.58 no.1
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• pp.139-160
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• 2019

This study attempts to examine statistical tasks in the middle-school mathematics textbooks of Korea and Connected Mathematics 3 [CMP] of the US in terms of an opportunity-to-learn for statistical reasoning. We utilized an analytical framework consisting of types of context, statistical reasoning level, cognitive demand of the tasks, and types of student response. The findings from the task analysis suggested that Korean textbooks focused on finding answers by applying previously learned algorithms or formulas and thus provided students with very limited opportunities to experience statistical reasoning. Also, the results proposed that the mathematical tasks in statistics unit of CMP3 offer more essential and complex tasks that promote students' conceptual understanding of various statistical ideas and statistical reasoning in a meaningful way.