• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.14 no.10
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• pp.416-428
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• 2014

This study aimed to identify middle school students' perceptions and practices of handwriting, and factors affecting their attitudes towards handwriting. Data were collected by means of a survey targeting 346 students enrolled in 9 middle schools(Male=172, Female=172, Unknown=2, M=13.5 years old, SD= .94). Interviews, too, were conducted with 12 students in order to identify the students' perceptions of handwriting. The analyses of both survey and interview data revealed the following: (1) the majority of the interviewee students believed that handwriting is useful for memory and summarization so as to get a better school grade, including performance evaluations; (2) Many of the interviewee students were unsatisfied with their handwriting skills, giving higher scores to their peers' handwriting; (3) 45.7% of the students reported that mother was the one who taught them how to write for the first time; and 49.7% of them had no learning experience of taking notes; (4) Girls than boys and 1st graders than 2 or 3 graders showed more positive attitude towards handwriting; and (5) A multiple regression analysis showed that all the variables entered in the regression model, including sex, grade, affective attitude toward hands-on activities, physical abilities, time spent using a computer, and perceptions of Korean characters, had significant impacts on the students' attitudes towards handwriting.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.463-472
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• 2005

The purpose of the paper was to investigate students' perceptions of tablet computer-based mobile learning in a middle school. We examined the perceptions in terms of: 1) learning effectiveness, which refers to the effects of tablet computer on learning outcomes such as the grade; 2) attitude change, which is the change of students' attitudes and study habit; 3) learning activities, which refers to the kinds of learning activities using tablet computer; and 4) computer utilization, which is the ways of computer use in the study. The result showed that, in general, tablet computer affected all four types of perceptions positively.