• 공학교육연구
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.51-58
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• 2015

This research was conducted to assess the effects of an engineering education accreditation program devised by the University of Seoul on higher education outcomes by comparing and analyzing the evaluation results of engineering accredited students (31) and those who are not accredited (47) with the OECD AHELO (Assessment of Higher Education Learning Outcomes) in 2013. The AHELO assessment tool consisted of 25 multiple-choice questions which evaluated generic skill-learning outcomes, also using contextual surveys to establish the students' backgrounds. The results were evaluated statistically. In the results from the multiple-choice exam for generic skill learning outcomes, accredited students scored 1.35 points higher than non-accredited students. Secondly, according to the contextual survey related to students' university education experience, such as lectures, seminars, group projects, and online tutoring, it was found that accredited students were provided more activities in seminars and group projects. Moreover, for class activities, more of these were provided to accredited students, especially in the areas of assortment-structuralization and teamwork-based activities. Thirdly, according to the contextual survey results related to participation in class, specifically regarding asking questions and participating in discussions, interacting with the professor, and opportunities for study time, there were no recognizable differences between accredited and non-accredited students, However, while accredited students at least had opportunities to gain experience in most areas, there were some areas for which education resources were not provided to non-accredited students. Therefore, for the University of Seoul, our results imply that accredited students may show better performance in the areas of academic accomplishment and in their educational environment as compared to non-accredited students. These results demonstrate that the engineering education accreditation program positively contributes to employment competitiveness while also improving the necessary global standards of higher education outcomes.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제45권2호
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• pp.90-97
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• 2012

Objectives: While there have been many quantitative studies on the public's attitude towards mental illnesses, it is hard to find quantitative study which focused on the contextual effect on the public's attitude. The purpose of this study was to identify factors that affect the public's beliefs and attitudes including contextual effects. Methods: We analyzed survey on the public's beliefs and attitudes towards mental illness in Korea with multi-level analysis. We analyzed the public's beliefs and attitudes in terms of prejudice as an intermediate outcome and social distance as a final outcome. Then, we focused on the associations of factors, which were individual and regional socioeconomic factors, familiarity, and knowledge based on the comparison of the intermediate and final outcomes. Results: Prejudice was not explained by regional variables but was only correlated with individual factors. Prejudice increased with age and decreased by high education level. However, social distance controlling for prejudice increased in females, in people with a high education level, and in regions with a high education level and a high proportion of the old. Therefore, social distance without controlling for prejudice increased in females, in the elderly, in highly educated people, and in regions with a high education and aged community. Conclusions: The result of the multi-level analysis for the regional variables suggests that social distance for mental illness are not only determined by individual factors but also influenced by the surroundings so that it could be tackled sufficiently with appropriate considering of the relevant regional context with individual characteristics.

• 한국수학교육학회지시리즈C:초등수학교육
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.167-180
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• 2019

본 연구의 목적은 TIMSS 수학 영역 평가에서 높은 성취도를 보이고 있는 동아시아 5개국(싱가포르, 홍콩, 대만, 일본, 대한민국)을 대상으로 초등학생 수학 성취에 영향을 미치는 주요 교육맥락변인을 분석하는 것이다. TIMSS 2015의 4학년 자료를 위계선형모형으로 분석한 연구 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 가정배경 변인 중 가정의 학습 자원, 부모의 교육 기대 수준이 초등학생들의 수학 성취도에 미치는 영향은 동아시아 5개국에서 공통이었으나, 취학 전문해력 수리력 활동과 부모의 수학 과학에 대한 태도가 학생의 수학 성취에 미치는 영향은 국가별로 차이가 있었다. 둘째, 동아시아 5개국에서 공통적으로 수학 학습 흥미가 수학 성취도에 주는 영향은 높은 것으로 나타났다. 셋째, 학교수준의 변인 중 학생 특성으로 인한 수업 제한 변인은 우리나라, 대만, 일본의 학생들의 성취도에 영향을 주지 않았으나, 싱가포르와 홍콩에서는 성취도에 영향을 주었다. 넷째, 재학생의 경제적 배경이 성취도에 미치는 영향은 대한민국, 대만, 일본에서 싱가포르와 홍콩보다 크게 나타났다.

• 인지과학
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.129-157
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• 2016

본 연구는 한국어의 소음속말인지(Speech perception in noise, SPIN)에 대하여 알아 보았다. 영어의 SPIN 테스트와 비슷한 형식을 채택하여 새로운 한국어 SPIN 테스트를 개발하였다. 예측성 효과와 소음효과, 이 둘의 상호작용에 대하여 알아봄으로써 기존의 영어에 기반을 둔 연구에서 발견한 것들을 재확인하고자 하였다. 새로운 한국어 SPIN 테스트를 사용하여 14명의 성인 한국인을 대상으로 한 실험 결과는 이전 연구들이 발견한 사항들을 다시 한 번 입증하였다. 첫째, 참여자들의 대체적인 SPIN 수행능력은 상대적으로 고소음 보다 저소음환경에서 더 나았다. 둘째, 문맥상 비교적 예측하기 쉬운 단어들이 예측하기 어려운 단어들보다 특히 고소음 환경에서 더 정확히 인지되었다. 이러한 결과는 청자들이 두 가지 종류의 정보, 즉 음성적 정보와 문맥적 정보를 말인지에 적극적으로 사용한다는 것을 의미하는 것으로 해석할 수 있다. 소음으로 인해서 말소리의 음성적인 특징이 약해졌을 때 청자들은 말소리를 처리하기 위해서 언어적 문맥정보를 적극적으로 이용하는 것이다. 본 연구에서 발견한 것들은 영어의 SPIN 테스트에 기반을 둔 기존 연구들에서 발견한 것과 일치한다. 게다가, 표적어의 빈도 효과에 대한 가능성을 발견하였는데, 이는 한국어의 이 분야에 대한 더 다양하고 활발한 연구가 있어야 함을 시사한다.

• International Journal of Human Ecology
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.1-14
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• 2011

This study examined the features of maternal involvement in Korean children's early education and their relation to contextual variables and three forms of parental cognition. For this study 333 Korean mothers with 5 to 7 year-old children completed questionnaires that covered aspects such as demographical characteristics, three forms of involvement in their children's education, and three forms of parental cognition. Descriptive analysis indicated that mothers who were more involved in monitoring homework paid more monthly activity fees for supplementary classes and engaged more in cognitively stimulating activities at home. Financial investment in supplementary classes for children was not associated with engagement in cognitively stimulating activities at home. Stepwise regression analysis found that mothers who were more involved in monitoring their young childrens homework expressed higher aspirations for their childrens future occupation. Korean mothers who paid more for their child's supplementary classes had higher family incomes. Korean mothers who engaged more often in cognitively stimulating activities at home expressed higher parental self-efficacy, had a higher educational level, had a younger child, and had an earlier birth order or only child.

• 대한간호학회지
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• 제41권2호
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• pp.214-224
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• 2011

Purpose: Understanding daily life experiences of patients admitted to hospital with recurrent breast cancer. Methods: The grounded theory method was used for this study. Results: Consistent comparative analysis was used throughout the study to obtain the results. Results showed that inpatients with recurrent breast cancer experience 'a co-existence of life suffering and fear of death'. The causal condition of this result was determined to be 'patient's response to cancer recurrence (acceptance/despair)', including contextual conditions such as, 'previous experience with cancer treatment', 'patient's current physical condition', and 'treatment methods for recurrent cancer'. Intervening conditions, such as 'a strong will to live', 'family support', 'moral support providers', and action/interaction strategies were found to provide patients with 'a strength to live'. Shown in these results, inpatients with recurrent breast cancer were seen to have a simultaneous 'hope for life and fear of death'. Conclusion: When providing nursing services to inpatients with recurrent breast cancer, people must recognize there is a notable difference between individual patients' contextual conditions and interactive strategies. Henceforth, proper cognitive nursing must be provided which encourages patients to maintain a strong will to overcome the many hardships of treatment as well as physical nursing, such as management of side effects caused by chemotherapy.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.97-121
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• 2011

This study aims to examine how motivational constructs are interrelated with social, context-specific factors and, as a result, contribute to L2 writing achievement within the framework of self-determination theory. The data consisted of 67 Korean college students' questionnaire responses, final scores in an on-offline blended writing course, and qualitative interviews with 5 students. In the descriptive and the correlation analyses, the participants' extrinsic motivation was found higher than intrinsic motivation, with low amotivation. Among social factors, immersion environment, foreign instructor, and peer comparison marked high scores, whereas Korean instructor and online material gained low scores. Those contextual factors were interrelated with each other, such that the immersion factor correlated significantly with Korean instructor and peer comparison. Extrinsic and intrinsic motivational subscales engendered strong correlations with the high-scored social factors, i.e., immersion, foreign instructor, and peer comparison, which were also closely interrelated with L2 writing achievement. The findings illuminate intricate workings of motivation in its effects on L2 achievement and corroborate the roles of contextual factors. The effect of motivational subscales on achievement may be valid through interplay with some social factors. The dynamics of motivation is discussed for pedagogical applications.

• 한국생활과학회지
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.633-652
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• 2014

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of personality traits of the middle aged on quality of life while mediated by self-concepts such as self-efficacy and self-derogation, as well as while moderated by subjective socio-economic variables such as economic status, social activities and employment. To verify the conceptual causality model and moderating effects of contextual variables, we analysed 353 cases out of purposively collected 400 cases from a medium sized city. As results, first, conscientiousness of personality traits positively affected quality of life of the middle aged while mediated by self-concepts. Second, neuroticism of personality traits negatively affected quality of life while mediated by self-concepts. Third, agreeableness of personality traits did not eventually affect quality of life, although affected negatively on self-efficacy and positively on self-derogation. Fourth, socio-economic variables such as economic status, social activities and employment moderated various paths in the model, which indicated dynamics of internal variables were affected by contextual variables.

• 한국어교육
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.93-112
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• 2018

The purpose of this study is to deal with vocabulary in KFL. As a result of this study, learners learned vocabulary on average 43 points through contextual inference and introduction of the class to activate background knowledge. In particular, the implicit method showed the highest learning rate of 52 points, and the thematic method had a 41 point-learning rate. In contrast, the semantic method was the lowest with a 25 point-learning rate. There was no significant difference in the improvement rate of upper vocabulary learners, but in the case of the lower learner, there was significant difference in the improvement rate. The difference was not significant in the post-test relative gain rate of upper learners, but there was significant in lower learners. In the delayed test relative gain rate, the difference was significant in all groups. There was correlation between vocabulary difficulty and score, but there was no correlation with the thematic method. And there was no correlation between vocabulary difficulty, improvement rate and relative gain rate in all three classes. However, content understanding, lexical grade, improvement rate, and relative gain rate showed a significant correlation.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.541-552
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• 2022

This research examines the effects of organizational learning and network involvement, as well as many contextual factors, on power generation businesses' innovation capability and operational success in Vietnam. This research also aims to attest to the moderating roles of top management support and company age, and firm possession type in the power generation industry. This study applied the exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and PLS-SEM approach for data analysis. In this research, we have tested hypotheses with data collected from 132 top managers and other key personnel from power generation companies in Vietnam. The results also attest to the moderating role of top management support on the two relationships between organizational learning - innovation capability and network involvement - innovation capability. Another important finding is that the company age has a negative impact on operational performance but shows a positive moderating role in the relationship between innovation capability and operational performance. This study highlights the central roles of organizational learning and innovation capability in impacting the organizational performance of power generation companies. These companies play a key role in supporting the development of industries in practice. This research also emphasizes the moderating roles of top management support and company age and possession type in practice.