• Journal of Elementary Mathematics Education in Korea
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.49-72
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• 2017

Despite the importance and necessity of functional thinking in a primary school there has been lack of research in this area, specifically regarding young children. Given this, this study analyzed how students aged from 7 to 9 would figure out and represent the co-variational relationships in context-driven tasks. Semi-clinical interviews were conducted with a total of 12 students. Interview tasks included three types of functions: (a) y=x, (b) y=x+1, and (c) y=x+x. The results of this study showed that most students were able to figure out co-variational relationships in diverse ways. Some factors such as types of function or characteristics of tasks had an impact on how students recognized the relationships. The students also could represent the relationship in diverse ways such as gesture, picture, natural language, and variables. They usually used natural language, but had a trouble using variables when representing the relation between co-varying quantities. Based on these results, this study provides implications on how to foster functional thinking ability at the elementary school.

• 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.

• Journal of the Korean earth science society
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• v.32 no.7
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• pp.784-797
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• 2011

The purposes of this study are: (1) to develop educational program designed to improve high school students' knowledge integration and their system thinking skills about global warming and (2) to identify the change of students' system thinking level. The developed program was implemented to twenty seven high school students, and six students grouped into three highs and three lows in their performance were selected to analyze their level of system thinking. The word association, casual map and drawing were used to measure and identify any significant change. As a result, the low level system thinking group improved their system thinking skills for global warming and the earth and sub-systems after the intervention. However, participants' misconception remained the same. And the high level systems thinking group showed more organize system thinking skills about a global warming topic. It is suggested that more educational programs be developed on various topics in order for high school students to improve their systems thinking skills as well as knowledge integration of earth systems and earth environment in school curriculum.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.33 no.2
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• pp.501-510
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• 2013

In the creative problem solving processes, the core was to generate unique and various ideas. Thus, an assumption reversal thinking skill needed to be considered as a concrete method that could help students who have difficulties with generating ideas. In this study, we applied the assumption reversal thinking skill to university students and explored the characteristics of the idea generation process. On the basis of the results, we found that the assumption reversal thinking skill helped students generate new ideas, inducing their perspective changes. Therefore, we could ascertain the possibilities of the assumption reversal thinking skill as a thinking frame supporting students' idea generation. However, there is a need to develop methods for students to exclude prejudice by theoretical judgment, intervention of the value, and experience for fostering more effective assumption reversal thinking. Also, ways should be considered so that students would be able to cultivate task commitment and courage of implementing new ideas, bearing criticism from others.

• Education of Primary School Mathematics
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.53-68
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• 2017

Although the table, as one of the representations for helping mathematics understanding, steadily has been shown in the mathematics textbooks, there have been little studies that focus on the table and analyze how the table may be used in understanding students' functional thinking. This study investigated the elementary school 5th graders' abilities to design function tables. The results showed that about 75% of the students were able to create tables for themselves, which shaped horizontal and included information only from the problem contexts. And the students had more difficulties in solving geometric growing pattern problems than story problems. Building on these results, this paper is expected to provide implications of instructional directions of how to use the table as 'function table'.

• 한국정보교육학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.08a
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• pp.69-77
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• 2005

본 연구는 초등학생들의 논리적 사고력을 신장시키기 위해 지식 기반 프로그램인 선언적 프로그램을 통해 교육현장에서도 적용할 수 있는 프로그래밍 교육을 제언하고자 한다. 학생들에게 논리적 사고 중에서도 협의의 논리적 사고 즉, 기호적 사고, 분석적 사고, 추론적 사고, 종합적 사고를 분석적 방법을 통해 실제 프로그래밍을 해 봄으로써 연역적 사고 또는 귀납적 사고를 보다 효과적이고 체계적인 프로그래밍을 할 수 있도록 지도함으로써 제 8차 교육과정에서의 컴퓨터 교육과정의 일부분으로서의 프로그래밍의 마인드를 제시하였다. 따라서 본 연구는 선언적 프로그램을 통해서 초등학교 학생들의 논리적 사고력 신장를 위하여 프로그래밍 교수학습의 방법적인 측면을 제시하고자 한다.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.34 no.4
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• pp.335-347
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• 2014

Size/scale is a central idea in the science curriculum, providing explanations for various phenomena. However, few studies have been conducted to explore student understanding of this concept and to suggest instructional approaches in scientific contexts. In contrast, there have been more studies in mathematics, regarding the use of number lines to relate the nature of numbers to operation and representation of magnitude. In order to better understand variations in student conceptions of size/scale in scientific contexts and explain learning difficulties including alternative conceptions, this study suggests an approach that links mathematics with the analysis of student conceptions of size/scale, i.e. the analysis of mathematical structure and reasoning for a number line. In addition, data ranging from high school to college students facilitate the interpretation of conceptual complexity in terms of mathematical development of a number line. In this sense, findings from this study better explain the following by mathematical reasoning: (1) varied student conceptions, (2) key aspects of each conception, and (3) potential cognitive dimensions interpreting the size/scale concepts. Results of this study help us to understand the troublesomeness of learning size/scale and provide a direction for developing curriculum and instruction for better understanding.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.101-111
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• 1989

본 연구의 목적은 광합성과 관련하여 한국 국민학교 5학년과 중학교 2학년 학생들이 갖고 있는 오개념을 조사하고, 학생들의 개념이해 정도, 논리적 사고능력, 그리고 학생배경변수들 사이의 상호관계를 조사하는 것이다. 세가지의 도구들이 이 연구를 위해 개발되었다. 광합성 개념검사 (Photosynthesis Concepts Test)는 광합성과 관련된 개념들의 이해를 평가하기 위해, 삐아제의 논리적 사고력 검사(Piagetian Cogical Reasoning Test)는 PCT에 포함된 3종류의 논리적 사고들, 변인 통제, 조합적 사고력, 상관관계 사고능력을 평가하기 위해, 그리고 실문서는 학생들의 배경변수들에 대한 정보를 얻기 위해 개발되었다. 이 도구들은 20명 의 국민학교 5학년, 239명의 중학교 2학년 학생들에게 시행되었다. 이 연구의 결과는 두집단의 학생들이 "먹이를 만든다"는 의미, 먹이의 정의, 식물에 의한 빛의 사용, 식물 뿌리와 잎의 기능들, 광합성 산물, 그리고 광합성을 위한 조건들과 관련하여 오개념을 갖고 있음을 보여 주었다. 국민학교 5학년과 중학교 2학년 사이의 개념 이해의 향상은 식물에 의한 빛 이용의 본질, 한 체계내에서 생물들간의 물질 교환, 포도당, 지방, 단백질 등에 대한 지식에서 보여졌고, 그래프를 해석하는 능력에서 또한 중학교 2학년 학생들이 앞섰다. 향상을 보인 항목들은 교과서에서 보다 많은 강조점을 두거나 상위의 논리적 사고능력을 요구하는 것들이었다. 희귀분석 결과, 전년도 과학성적과 논리적 사고력이 PCT 성취도에 가장 예견력이 높은 두 변수이며 5학년의 경우 성취도의 약 22%의 변량을, 중2의 경우 성취도의 약 40%의 변량을 설명하였다. 후속연구로서 내용의 추상성, 적절성, 그리고 요구되는 논리적 능력면에서 교수조건의 변형을 통한 오개념의 변화와 감소에 대한 실험적 연구가 제시되었다.

• 대한공업교육학회지
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• v.44 no.1
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• pp.94-113
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• 2019

This study has been performed for the purpose of providing the basic pedagogical resources to the specialized and meister high school related educational settings in either constructing educational contents suitable for the students'technological thinking disposition or fortifying the disposition required for the students.. A tool of secured validity and reliability has been used to test technological thinking disposition for the specialized and Meister high school students. Followings are the major results of the survey analysis for the subjects. 1. Technological thinking disposition with the most component ratio for the specialized & meister high school was turned out to be Technological Operating Disposition(TOD). The second most was Technological Planning and Reflecting Disposition(TPRD). Technological Curiosity Disposition(TCD), Technological Problem Identifying and Resolving Disposition (TPIRD), Technological Analyzing Disposition(TAD), Technological Creativity and Expressing Disposition(TCED) were in sequence. 2. In comparing the technological disposition of specialized high school students with that of meister high school students, the statistical test showed no evidence for the difference between the two group. 3. Statistical comparison test for the gender difference in technological thinking disposition has also been performed for the students of specialized and meister high school. The result showed that the magnitude of difference between the component ratio of TCD and TPIRD for the boy students was bigger than that for the girl students. In the TPRD, the component ratio for the disposition of the girl students was bigger than that of the boy students on the other hand. 4. For the comparison test of the technological thinking disposition between boys and girls only for the specialized high school students, the results showed the same different component ratio results as the results of the test for the specialized and meister high school students. 5. For the gender difference of meister high school student for the technological thinking disposition, there was no statistical evidence supporting the difference.

• Journal of Gifted/Talented Education
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.387-406
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• 2013

This study compared levels of mathematically talented students' statistical thinking with those of non-talented students in the noticing of statistical variability. t tests were conducted to test for statistically significant differences between mathematically gifted students and non-gifted students. Results for the t-test shows that there is no difference between the TE students' and NE students' noticing of variability in the measurement settings. Meanwhile, the t-test results also show that there is a difference between the TM students' and NM students' noticing of variability in the both measurement and chance settings. Table of frequencies of each level, however, shows that levels of mathematically gifted students' thinking were not distributed at the high levels but were overlapped with those of non-gifted students. These results are thought-provoking results in statistics instruction for mathematically talented students.