• Journal of Engineering Education Research
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.26-36
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• 2020

This study aims to investigate the effect of college choice factors on withdrawal intention of first-year undergraduates in STEM majors. The data for this study were collected from a national sample of 4-year institutions that participated in Collegiate Longitudinal Study funded by the National Research Foundation of Korea during 2013-2014. The data included 1,484 students in STEM majors from 30 institutions, and this study used bivariate and multivariate analytic methods to answer the research questions. This study found that while the internal dimensions of college choice showed a negative effect on the intention to dropout, external dimensions of college choice such as college environment, financial accessibility, admission possibility had a positive effect on the intention. The findings indicate that it is necessary to pay attention to college choice for enrollment management to prevent first-year undergraduates in STEM majors from dropping out.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.27 no.6
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• pp.477-487
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• 2007

Previous studies show that students have difficulties in understanding and using molecular visualization tools. This study focuses on the ways in which first year chemistry undergraduates use ball-and-stick molecular models to explain the concept of addition reaction and the difficulties that they face using the models. Video recordings of interviews with undergraduates manipulating ball-and-stick models to solve problems related to reaction mechanisms are analysed to determine if they are able to elucidate their understanding with use of models. The results showed that students have difficulties with viewing the ball-and-stick models from the proper perspective and understanding the relationship between the various structures that they have created using the models. They also find the use of ball-and-stick models tedious and prefer drawing molecular structures on paper to explain their ideas. Implications for the teaching using ball-and-stick molecular models are discussed.

• Journal of Engineering Education Research
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.10-19
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• 2016

This study was conducted to explore the major adjustment factors in undergraduates by investigating the characteristics of group which doesn't correspond to Holland's congruence assumption. For this study, 313 sophomore year undergraduates in engineering were surveyed. The results of this study showed as follows. First, the group which doesn't correspond to Holland's congruence assumption represented 16.6% of all. Second, there were significant differences of basic psychological needs among four groups by interest-major congruence and major adjustment. These findings imply that major selection in congruence with interest is not critical and we should also consider basic psychological needs(autonomy, competence, relatedness) for engineering major adjustment.

• Korean Journal of Human Ecology
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.233-239
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• 2005

This study was conducted to investigate how much influence home environment and satisfaction degree with a undergraduate major have on female students' college adjustment. For this purpose, 190 undergraduate females participated in and completed all measures, and we analysed the data with SPSS computer programs. The results of this study are as follows: First, home environment and college adjustment have a positive correlation. Also, the students' satisfaction degree with their majors and college adjustment are positively correlated. Second, their satisfaction degree with a major was found to be different according to what year they are in. Third, the students' college adjustment was found to be different according to the satisfaction degree with their majors. Fourth, the female undergraduates' college adjustment was found to be different according to their home environment.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.36 no.5
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• pp.729-737
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• 2016

Natural selection is the core idea of evolution that pre-service biology teachers need to understand to solve diverse biological problem. This study aims to investigate the level of Korean pre-service biology teachers' understanding of natural selection by comparing their knowledge with their Chinese, American, and German biology major undergraduate counterparts. In particular, this study focuses on two conceptual components of natural selection (i.e., ecology and genetics). This study used a total 1226 pre-service biology teachers and biology majors' data. The instrument measuring the understanding of natural selection concepts was Conceptual Inventory of Natural Selection, which consists of ten ecology concept items and ten genetics concept items. The Rasch model analysis, multivariate analysis of variance, and univariate analysis of variance were used for the statistical tests. The result reveals that the level of Korean pre-service biology teachers' understanding of natural selection were similar with Chinese undergraduates' understanding and significantly lower than American and German undergraduates.' In the first year student data, the level of genetics concept of Korean pre-service biology teachers were significantly lower than Chinese and German students. In the fourth year student data, the level of ecology concept of Korean pre-service biology teachers were significantly lower than American and German students. Based on these results, the ecology concept education and balanced natural selection concept education are discussed.

• The Journal of Korean society of community based occupational therapy
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.75-84
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• 2013

Objective : This study was aimed to survey the influence of the experience of undergraduates volunteering activities on awareness toward the disabled. Method : 259 students were chosen and structured interview was carried out using by a questionnaire. Result : The followings are the results of this study. First, students with experience of volunteering activities in institutions related to disabled have positive awareness of disabled. Second, they have positive awareness of disabled in some cases such as volunteering activity in university, interesting in new events, volunteering activity for more over a year, and assisting activities. But they have negative awareness of disabled in some cases such as no experience of volunteering activities, interesting in social relationship, and participating administration service. Conclusion : The results of this study would contribute to better volunteering activity system for the awareness toward the disabled.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.18 no.8
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• pp.36-50
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• 2018

The subjects of this study are three visually-impaired undergraduates currently considering if they should take a leave of absence after finishing the first year in S University located in Busan City. From March to July, 2018, this researcher explored the meaning of their university entrance and the essential meaning and structure of their school life experiences by using Giorgi's phenomenological methodology. According to the results, this author drew 32 meaningful statements and also 10 main themes, "the excitement of campus life and the name of being an undergraduate", "parents' suggestion", "something other than being a massager", "Is it a place that anyone can enter? Or, is it a special place?", "loneliness within the public", "Everything is an obstacle.", "It's not giving up, but still I am in a vague moment.", "the beginning of another conflict", and "studying in a university is not for the present but for the future". They were categorized into being a university student and the meaning of it (category1), adaptation to university life and reality (category 2), and one year after the entrance: the meaning of being a university student (category 3). Based on the above results, this author intends to provide foundational material about what universities can do for visually-impaired students to adapt to university life in the initial steps properly.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.606-614
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• 2012

With rising concerns on downturn of global economy, college graduates are experiencing a serious unemployment crisis. In this reality, undergraduates preparing for employment face much stress from worries and conflicts. Accordingly, the purpose of this study is to examine the influence of university student's belief of destiny on sub factors of employment stress such as environmental, physical, psychological and keen behaviors according to internal and external locus of control. 550 surveys were distributed to four-year university students in Seoul, capital area and rural area for 15 days from October 5 until October 20, 2011. 480 surveys were returned, among which 430 were effective as study subjects. As a result of this study, first, environmental influence on employment stress was high at 49% while physical influence was 7%. Second, as a result of performing correlation analysis on employment stress and locus of control, external locus of control showed positive influence in environmental, physical, psychological and keen behaviors. Internal locus of control showed negative influence in all behaviors, suggesting that more diverse career information must be provided. Since increase in career efficacy and reduction of employment stress in university students are directly linked to unemployment rate of youths, diverse and active methods are deemed necessary.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.7 no.9
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• pp.167-175
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• 2007

The purposes of this study were to examine the effect of interest and participation in ski, encouragement to participate in ski, and attitude to ski of significant others on the socialization. To attain the goal of the study described above paragraphs, the ski class participant of the university located in Seoul, 2005 year were set as a collected group. Then, using the cluster random sampling method, finally drew out and analyzed 200 people in total. The result of reliability check up was here below; over Chronbach's $\alpha$=.600. To analyze materials, confirmatory factor analysis, logistic regression analysis and multiple regression analysis were used as statistic analysis techniques. The conclusion based on above study method and the result of material analysis are below. Based upon the result of the study, the following conclusions appear warranted: First, significant others influence on the ski participation experience of the undergraduate. Second, significant others influence on the ski participation frequencies of the undergraduate. Third, significant others influence on the ski participation period of the undergraduate. Fourth, significant others influence on the ski participation skill of the undergraduate.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.227-237
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• 2020

This study was designed to examine whether the self-directed learning method could improve self-directed learning readiness and the effects of academic achievement level. Self-directed learning readiness was investigated among 63 first-year Medical Terminology undergraduates in the C area. A repeat measurement variance analysis of the general linear model was conducted to evaluate the effects of improving self-directed learning readiness according to the general characteristics and level of academic achievement, while a regression analysis was performed to identify the factors affecting self-directed learning readiness. Self-directed learning readiness increased from 177.3 to 180.8 for those under 18 years of age, and 192.9 to 196.5 for those over 19 years of age (p<0.05). After the team activity, the overall self-directed learning readiness was improved, and both high- and low-achieving groups showed statistically significant improvements (p<0.05). The environment surrounding learners was confirmed to have a positive effect on improving self-directed learning when given the right degree of self-directed learning and appropriate feedback. The study results are expected to form basic foundation material for professors and class designers who want to draw self-directed learning skills from memorizing subjects.