• 대한공업교육학회지
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• 제36권2호
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• pp.131-150
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• 2011

이 연구의 목적은 일반고등학교 직업 과정의 효율적인 운영을 위하여 각 시 도별 일반고등학교 직업 과정 운영 현황과 실태 분석을 통하여 일반고등학교 직업 과정 운영의 문제점을 파악하고, 그 개선 방안을 도출하기 위한 것이다. 일반고등학교에서의 바람직한 운영 방향으로는 일반고 직업과정 운영 목적에 부합하는 학생을 선발하는 것으로서, 학생 선발할 때 정확한 홍보와 진로 지도가 필요하며, 일반고 직업 과정 담당교사가 직업 과정의 운영 취지를 올바로 인식하고, 학생 진로지도와 직업 과정을 효과적으로 운영할 수 있도록 시 도교육청 차원에서 체계적인 연수를 실시할 필요가 있다. 또한 일반고 직업 과정 대상 학생이 소속교(원적교) 에서 이수 하여야 하는 교육과정에 대해 학교 교육계획서에 명시하여 실천할 필요가 있으며, 일반고 직업 과정 학생은 별도의 학급을 구성하여 운영하는 것이 가장 바람직하다. 대상 인원이 소수일 경우, 권역별로 1학급을 만들어 운영하는 방안도 고려해 볼 필요가 있다. 위탁 교육 기관의 주요 실적에 대한 개선 방향으로 취업률 향상을 위해서는 학생 선발 시 홍보 자료로 대학 진학률 보다는 취업률 자료를 활용하여 학생 및 학부모에게 일반고 직업 과정의 목적과 취지에 대한 정확한 정보를 제공할 필요가 있다. 또한 취업률이 상대적으로 낮은 산업(정보) 학교에서는 취업 전담부서를 설치하고, 취업 담당자(산학협력 코디네이터) 등을 배치하여, 취업 경로와 산업체를 확보하고 산업체의 요구와 학생이 희망하는 근무조건 등을 조정하는 역할을 담당하도록 하며, 산업체 대학(2년제) 산업(정보) 학교의 협약을 통하여 선취업 후진학 제도를 적극 홍보 활용하기를 권장할 필요가 있다. 일반고 직업 과정 코스의 신설 및 폐지에 있어, 일부 인기 코스의 경우 오히려 취업과 거리가 먼 경우가 있으므로, 코스를 신설하거나 폐지할 경우 변화하는 산업사회의 수요를 반영하고 취업과 연결될 수 있는지를 면밀히 검토하여 신중히 결정해야 한다. 위탁 교육 기관에 대한 체게적인 질 관리 측면에서, 산업(정보) 학교와 공공 직업훈련 기관이 민간 직업 전문학교이나 학원에 비해 우수하다. 그러나 전국의 16개 시 도 중 대도시를 중심으로 5개 시에만 산업정보학교가 있다. 일반고 직업 과정이 지속적으로 수요가 예상되는 시 도의 경우, 운영면에서 여러 가지로 비교 우위에 있는 산업정보 학교의 신설을 고려해 볼 필요가 있다.

• 농촌의학ㆍ지역보건
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.19-35
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• 2001

보건소의 의약분업 시행에 따른 업무변화와 업무 개선방안에 대해 조사 분석하여 보건소의 기능 및 역할 재정립에 필요한 기초자료를 얻고자 2001년 4월과 5월에 경상북도내 25개 보건소와 대구광역시 6개 보건소의 소장 또는 과장에게 의약분업 실시 전후의 보건소 업무 및 진료실적변화 정도를 조사하였고, 이와 함께 보건소 공무원 221명에게 의약분업에 따른 보건소 업무개선방안에 대해 설문 조사하였다. 31개 대상 보건소 가운데 77.4%인 24개 보건소가 주민진료편의 조치를 취하였다고 하였다. 주민 진료편의 조치를 한 보건소의 조치내용으로 약국배치도마련(73.9%), 인테리어 개선(39.1%), 전자처방전달시스템 도입(34.8%) 순이었다. 의약분업 실시 후 의사는 대상 보건소의 3.2%에서 감소하였다. 의약분업에 따라 월평균 진료건수는 대상 보건소의 58.1%에서 감소하였다고 하였고, 조제건수는 96.4%, 총진료비는 80.6%, 본인부담금은 80.6%, 약품구입비는 96.7%의 보건소에서 감소하였다고 하였다. 의약분업 실시 이후 진료부문에 비해 보건사업 부문의 비중은 54.2%의 보건소에서 증가하였다고 하였다. 의약분업 전후이 분기별 진료실적을 분석한 결과 진료실인원은 의약분업이전과 비교하여 의약분업 이후에 감소하였고, 진료연인원은 군보건소와 보건의료원은 감소하였으며, 시화 구보건소는 감소했다가 점차 증가하고 있다. 조제건수 총진료비 본인부담금 약품구입비는 크게 감소하였다. 보건소 공무원들은 의약분업 실시 이후 진료부문의 기능에 대해서는 57.6%가 축소시켜야 한다고 하였고, 보건소에서 우선적으로 개선해야 할 부분으로는 보건사업내용 개발(62.4%), 인력재배치(51.6%), 사업우선순위 결정(48.4%), 조직개편(36.2%), 진료서비스의 질 향상(32.1%), 예산재배치(23.1%) 순으로 응답하였다. 보건소의 이미지를 개선하기 위해서는 지역주민건강정보관리 강화(60.7%)가 가장 시급하다고 하였으며 홍보를 통한 보건소의 이용 확대(15.8%), 보건소 공무원의 친절(15.3%), 건강상담요원 배치(8.2%) 순이었다. 의약분업 실시 이후 바람직한 보건소 역할 설정을 위하여 보건소 전체 업무 영역에 대해 의약분업 이전과 이후에 상대비중을 매기도록 한 결과 25개 세부영역 중 일반진료 및 응급진료 영역만 모두 상대비중이 높아졌다. 의약분업 이후 보건소가 중점을 두어야 할 우선 순위 5위까지의 업무영역은 순서대로 예방접종, 건강증진, 모자보건, 급만성전염병, 지역보건의료계획 이었다. 향후 보건소가 바람직한 공공보건의료조직으로 기능 및 역할을 재정립하기 위해서는 의약분업이라는 중대한 보건의료환경변화를 계기로 진료부문의 기능은 축소하되 노후시설 장비의 개선, 진료방식의 다양화, 건강정보관리 강화 등 진료서비스의 내용과 질에 있어서는 강화하는 방향으로 나아가야 할 것이다. 또한 인력재배치 및 조직개편과 함께 다양한 보건사업의 개발과 지역특성에 맞는 사업우선순위에 의해 예방접조, 건강증진, 모자보건, 급 만성전염병, 지역보건의료계획 수립, 구강보건, 만성퇴행성질환 등 지역주민의 건강증진 질병예방 기능을 강화하되 지역특성(대도시, 중소도시, 농어촌)에 맞게 예방위주의 건강 증진업무와 환자 진료업무의 비중을 차별화 시키는 방향으로 개선해 나가야 할 것이다.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.53-74
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• 2012

A challenge in fostering virtual communities is the continuous supply of knowledge, namely members' willingness to contribute knowledge to their communities. Previous research argues that giving away knowledge eventually causes the possessors of that knowledge to lose their unique value to others, benefiting all except the contributor. Furthermore, communication within virtual communities involves a large number of participants with different social backgrounds and perspectives. The establishment of mutual understanding to comprehend conversations and foster knowledge contribution in virtual communities is inevitably more difficult than face-to-face communication in a small group. In spite of these arguments, evidence suggests that individuals in virtual communities do engage in social behaviors such as knowledge contribution. It is important to understand why individuals provide their valuable knowledge to other community members without a guarantee of returns. In virtual communities, knowledge is inherently rooted in individual members' experiences and expertise. This personal nature of knowledge requires social interactions between virtual community members for knowledge transfer. This study employs the social capital theory in order to account for interpersonal relationship factors and identity theory for individual and group factors that may affect knowledge contribution. First, social capital is the relationship capital which is embedded within the relationships among the participants in a network and available for use when it is needed. Social capital is a productive resource, facilitating individuals' actions for attainment. Nahapiet and Ghoshal (1997) identify three dimensions of social capital and explain theoretically how these dimensions affect the exchange of knowledge. Thus, social capital would be relevant to knowledge contribution in virtual communities. Second, existing research has addressed the importance of identity in facilitating knowledge contribution in a virtual context. Identity in virtual communities has been described as playing a vital role in the establishment of personal reputations and in the recognition of others. For instance, reputation systems that rate participants in terms of the quality of their contributions provide a readily available inventory of experts to knowledge seekers. Despite the growing interest in identities, however, there is little empirical research about how identities in the communities influence knowledge contribution. Therefore, the goal of this study is to better understand knowledge contribution by examining the roles of social capital and identity in virtual communities. Based on a theoretical framework of social capital and identity theory, we develop and test a theoretical model and evaluate our hypotheses. Specifically, we propose three variables such as cohesiveness, reciprocity, and commitment, referring to the social capital theory, as antecedents of knowledge contribution in virtual communities. We further posit that members with a strong identity (self-presentation and group identification) contribute more knowledge to virtual communities. We conducted a field study in order to validate our research model. We collected data from 192 members of virtual communities and used the PLS method to analyse the data. The tests of the measurement model confirm that our data set has appropriate discriminant and convergent validity. The results of testing the structural model show that cohesion, reciprocity, and self-presentation significantly influence knowledge contribution, while commitment and group identification do not significantly influence knowledge contribution. Our findings on cohesion and reciprocity are consistent with the previous literature. Contrary to our expectations, commitment did not significantly affect knowledge contribution in virtual communities. This result may be due to the fact that knowledge contribution was voluntary in the virtual communities in our sample. Another plausible explanation for this result may be the self-selection bias for the survey respondents, who are more likely to contribute their knowledge to virtual communities. The relationship between self-presentation and knowledge contribution was found to be significant in virtual communities, supporting the results of prior literature. Group identification did not significantly affect knowledge contribution in this study, inconsistent with the wealth of research that identifies group identification as an important factor for knowledge sharing. This conflicting result calls for future research that examines the role of group identification in knowledge contribution in virtual communities. This study makes a contribution to theory development in the area of knowledge management in general and virtual communities in particular. For practice, the results of this study identify the circumstances under which individual factors would be effective for motivating knowledge contribution to virtual communities.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.207-228
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• 2007

Measuring Information Technology(IT) organizations' activities have been limited to mainly measure financial indicators for a long time. However, according to the multifarious functions of Information System, a number of researches have been done for the new trends on measurement methodologies that come with financial measurement as well as new measurement methods. Especially, the researches on IT Balanced Scorecard(BSC), concept from BSC measuring IT activities have been done as well in recent years. BSC provides more advantages than only integration of non-financial measures in a performance measurement system. The core of BSC rests on the cause-and-effect relationships between measures to allow prediction of value chain performance measures to allow prediction of value chain performance measures, communication, and realization of the corporate strategy and incentive controlled actions. More recently, BSC proponents have focused on the need to tie measures together into a causal chain of performance, and to test the validity of these hypothesized effects to guide the development of strategy. Kaplan and Norton[2001] argue that one of the primary benefits of the balanced scorecard is its use in gauging the success of strategy. Norreklit[2000] insist that the cause-and-effect chain is central to the balanced scorecard. The cause-and-effect chain is also central to the IT BSC. However, prior researches on relationship between information system and enterprise strategies as well as connection between various IT performance measurement indicators are not so much studied. Ittner et al.[2003] report that 77% of all surveyed companies with an implemented BSC place no or only little interest on soundly modeled cause-and-effect relationships despite of the importance of cause-and-effect chains as an integral part of BSC. This shortcoming can be explained with one theoretical and one practical reason[Blumenberg and Hinz, 2006]. From a theoretical point of view, causalities within the BSC method and their application are only vaguely described by Kaplan and Norton. From a practical consideration, modeling corporate causalities is a complex task due to tedious data acquisition and following reliability maintenance. However, cause-and effect relationships are an essential part of BSCs because they differentiate performance measurement systems like BSCs from simple key performance indicator(KPI) lists. KPI lists present an ad-hoc collection of measures to managers but do not allow for a comprehensive view on corporate performance. Instead, performance measurement system like BSCs tries to model the relationships of the underlying value chain in cause-and-effect relationships. Therefore, to overcome the deficiencies of causal modeling in IT BSC, sound and robust causal modeling approaches are required in theory as well as in practice for offering a solution. The propose of this study is to suggest critical success factors(CSFs) and KPIs for measuring performance for IT organizations and empirically validate the casual relationships between those CSFs. For this purpose, we define four perspectives of BSC for IT organizations according to Van Grembergen's study[2000] as follows. The Future Orientation perspective represents the human and technology resources needed by IT to deliver its services. The Operational Excellence perspective represents the IT processes employed to develop and deliver the applications. The User Orientation perspective represents the user evaluation of IT. The Business Contribution perspective captures the business value of the IT investments. Each of these perspectives has to be translated into corresponding metrics and measures that assess the current situations. This study suggests 12 CSFs for IT BSC based on the previous IT BSC's studies and COBIT 4.1. These CSFs consist of 51 KPIs. We defines the cause-and-effect relationships among BSC CSFs for IT Organizations as follows. The Future Orientation perspective will have positive effects on the Operational Excellence perspective. Then the Operational Excellence perspective will have positive effects on the User Orientation perspective. Finally, the User Orientation perspective will have positive effects on the Business Contribution perspective. This research tests the validity of these hypothesized casual effects and the sub-hypothesized causal relationships. For the purpose, we used the Partial Least Squares approach to Structural Equation Modeling(or PLS Path Modeling) for analyzing multiple IT BSC CSFs. The PLS path modeling has special abilities that make it more appropriate than other techniques, such as multiple regression and LISREL, when analyzing small sample sizes. Recently the use of PLS path modeling has been gaining interests and use among IS researchers in recent years because of its ability to model latent constructs under conditions of nonormality and with small to medium sample sizes(Chin et al., 2003). The empirical results of our study using PLS path modeling show that the casual effects in IT BSC significantly exist partially in our hypotheses.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.95-116
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• 2009

Increasingly the institutional theory has been an important theoretical view of decision making process and IT adoption in many academic researches. This study used the institutional theory as a lens through which we can understand the factors that enable the effective appropriation of advanced information technology. It posits that mimetic, coercive, and normative pressures existing in an institutionalized environment could influence the participation of top managers or decision makers and the involvement of users toward an effective use of IT in their tasks. Since the introduction of IT, organizational members have been using IT in their daily tasks, creating and recreating rules and resources according to their own methods and needs. That is to say, the adaptation process of the IT and outcomes are different among organizations. The previous studies on a diverse use of IT refer to the appropriation of technology from the social technology view. Users appropriate IT through not only technology itself, but also in terms of how they use it or how they make the social practice in their use of it. In this study, the concepts of institutional pressure, appropriation, participation of decision makers, and involvement of users toward the appropriation are explored in the context of the appropriation of the mobile electronic medical record system (M-EMRS) in particularly a hospital setting. Based on the conceptual definition of institutional pressure, participation and involvement, operational measures are reconstructed. Furthermore, the concept of appropriation is measured in the aspect of three sub-constructs-consensus on appropriation, faithful appropriation, and attitude of use. Grounded in the relevant theories to appropriation of IT, we developed a research framework in which the effects of institutional pressure, participation and involvement on the appropriation of IT are analyzed. Within this theoretical framework, we formulated several hypotheses. We developed a second order institutional pressure and appropriation construct. After establishing its validity and reliability, we tested the hypotheses with empirical data from 101 users in 3 hospitals which had adopted and used the M-EMRS. We examined the mediating effect of the participation of decision makers and the involvement of users on the appropriation and empirically validated their relationships. The results show that the mimetic, coercive, and normative institutional pressure has an effect on the participation of decision makers and the involvement of users in the appropriation of IT while the participation of decision makers and the involvement of users have an effect on the appropriation of IT. The results also suggest that the institutional pressure and the participation of decision makers influence the involvement of users toward an appropriation of IT. Our results emphasize the mediating effect of the institutional pressure on the appropriation of IT. Namely, the higher degree of the participation of decision makers and the involvement of users, the more effective appropriation users will represent. These results provide strong support for institutional-based variables as predictors of appropriation. These findings also indicate that organizations should focus on the role of participation of decision makers and the involvement of users for the purpose of effective appropriation, and these are the practical implications of our study. The theoretical contribution of this study is lies in the integrated model of the effect of institutional pressure on the appropriation of IT. The results are consistent with the institutional theory and support previous studies on adaptive structuration theory.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.157-178
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• 2009

Corporate credit rating is a very important factor in the market for corporate debt. Information concerning corporate operations is often disseminated to market participants through the changes in credit ratings that are published by professional rating agencies, such as Standard and Poor's (S&P) and Moody's Investor Service. Since these agencies generally require a large fee for the service, and the periodically provided ratings sometimes do not reflect the default risk of the company at the time, it may be advantageous for bond-market participants to be able to classify credit ratings before the agencies actually publish them. As a result, it is very important for companies (especially, financial companies) to develop a proper model of credit rating. From a technical perspective, the credit rating constitutes a typical, multiclass, classification problem because rating agencies generally have ten or more categories of ratings. For example, S&P's ratings range from AAA for the highest-quality bonds to D for the lowest-quality bonds. The professional rating agencies emphasize the importance of analysts' subjective judgments in the determination of credit ratings. However, in practice, a mathematical model that uses the financial variables of companies plays an important role in determining credit ratings, since it is convenient to apply and cost efficient. These financial variables include the ratios that represent a company's leverage status, liquidity status, and profitability status. Several statistical and artificial intelligence (AI) techniques have been applied as tools for predicting credit ratings. Among them, artificial neural networks are most prevalent in the area of finance because of their broad applicability to many business problems and their preeminent ability to adapt. However, artificial neural networks also have many defects, including the difficulty in determining the values of the control parameters and the number of processing elements in the layer as well as the risk of over-fitting. Of late, because of their robustness and high accuracy, support vector machines (SVMs) have become popular as a solution for problems with generating accurate prediction. An SVM's solution may be globally optimal because SVMs seek to minimize structural risk. On the other hand, artificial neural network models may tend to find locally optimal solutions because they seek to minimize empirical risk. In addition, no parameters need to be tuned in SVMs, barring the upper bound for non-separable cases in linear SVMs. Since SVMs were originally devised for binary classification, however they are not intrinsically geared for multiclass classifications as in credit ratings. Thus, researchers have tried to extend the original SVM to multiclass classification. Hitherto, a variety of techniques to extend standard SVMs to multiclass SVMs (MSVMs) has been proposed in the literature Only a few types of MSVM are, however, tested using prior studies that apply MSVMs to credit ratings studies. In this study, we examined six different techniques of MSVMs: (1) One-Against-One, (2) One-Against-AIL (3) DAGSVM, (4) ECOC, (5) Method of Weston and Watkins, and (6) Method of Crammer and Singer. In addition, we examined the prediction accuracy of some modified version of conventional MSVM techniques. To find the most appropriate technique of MSVMs for corporate bond rating, we applied all the techniques of MSVMs to a real-world case of credit rating in Korea. The best application is in corporate bond rating, which is the most frequently studied area of credit rating for specific debt issues or other financial obligations. For our study the research data were collected from National Information and Credit Evaluation, Inc., a major bond-rating company in Korea. The data set is comprised of the bond-ratings for the year 2002 and various financial variables for 1,295 companies from the manufacturing industry in Korea. We compared the results of these techniques with one another, and with those of traditional methods for credit ratings, such as multiple discriminant analysis (MDA), multinomial logistic regression (MLOGIT), and artificial neural networks (ANNs). As a result, we found that DAGSVM with an ordered list was the best approach for the prediction of bond rating. In addition, we found that the modified version of ECOC approach can yield higher prediction accuracy for the cases showing clear patterns.

• 지능정보연구
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.1-13
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• 2015

빅데이터 및 오피니언 마이닝 분야가 대두됨에 따라 정보 검색/추출, 특히 비정형 데이터에서의 정보 검색/추출 기술의 중요성이 나날이 부각되어지고 있다. 또한 정보 검색 분야에서는 이용자의 의도에 맞는 결과를 제공할 수 있는 검색엔진의 성능향상을 위한 다양한 연구들이 진행되고 있다. 이러한 정보 검색/추출 분야에서 자연어처리 기술은 비정형 데이터 분석/처리 분야에서 중요한 기술이고, 자연어처리에 있어서 하나의 단어가 여러개의 모호한 의미를 가질 수 있는 단어 중의성 문제는 자연어처리의 성능을 향상시키기 위해 우선적으로 해결해야하는 문제점들의 하나이다. 본 연구는 단어 중의성 해소 방법에 사용될 수 있는 말뭉치를 많은 시간과 노력이 요구되는 수동적인 방법이 아닌, 사전들의 예제를 활용하여 자동적으로 생성할 수 있는 방법을 소개한다. 즉, 기존의 수동적인 방법으로 의미 태깅된 세종말뭉치에 표준국어대사전의 예제를 자동적으로 태깅하여 결합한 말뭉치를 사용한 단어 중의성 해소 방법을 소개한다. 표준국어대사전에서 단어 중의성 해소의 주요 대상인 전체 명사 (265,655개) 중에 중의성 해소의 대상이 되는 중의어 (29,868개)의 각 센스 (93,522개)와 연관된 속담, 용례 문장 (56,914개)들을 결합 말뭉치에 추가하였다. 품사 및 센스가 같이 태깅된 세종말뭉치의 약 79만개의 문장과 표준국어대사전의 약 5.7만개의 문장을 각각 또는 병합하여 교차검증을 사용하여 실험을 진행하였다. 실험 결과는 결합 말뭉치를 사용하였을 때 정확도와 재현율에 있어서 향상된 결과가 발견되었다. 본 연구의 결과는 인터넷 검색엔진 등의 검색결과의 성능향상과 오피니언 마이닝, 텍스트 마이닝과 관련한 자연어 분석/처리에 있어서 문장의 내용을 보다 명확히 파악하는데 도움을 줄 수 있을 것으로 기대되어진다.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2006년도 춘계종합학술대회
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• pp.855-858
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• 2006

정보화 시대에 이르러 정보통신기술의 급속한 발달은 교육을 포함한 모든 분야에 획기적인 패러다임의 변화를 가져왔다. 교육에 있어서의 변화는 단순한 지식의 축적이 아닌 학습자가 스스로 문제를 발견하고, 이를 위한 적절한 해결방법을 습득함을 의미한다. 즉, 교사는 조언자로서의 역할을, 학생은 학습의 주도자로서의 역할을 담당하며, 이는 교육의 주체가 교사중심에서 학생중심으로의 전환을 뜻한다. 이러한 교육적 패러다임의 변환과 더불어 주목받고 있는 교수학습이론이 "구성주의(Constructivism)"이다. 구성주의의 틀안에서 과거의 교사중심의 직접교수법 대신에 학습자 중심의 참여학습을 강조하고 있으며, 새로운 교육적 패러다임의 실천적 방안을 구체적으로 제시하고 있다. 이러한 실천적 방안을 구축 가능하게 해준 것이 바로 정보통신기술 그중에서도 인터넷(internet)의 발달이다. 인터넷에서 가장 활발하게 사용되고 있는 웹(Web)은 그 특성상 구성주의 학습원리를 실현하는데 적절한 환경을 제공하고 있으며, 교육 시스템의 변화를 가져오고 있다. 인터넷을 활용한 웹상에서의 교수학습은 교실이라는 제한된 공간에서 판서에 의존하는 방식의 수업이 아닌 풍부하고 다양한 형태의 폭넓은 자료의 습득을 가능하게 하며, 학습자에게 생동감 있는 학습 경험을 주어 학습 동기를 유발할 수 있다. 또한 기존의 수업에 비해 비교적 시간과 장소의 제약에서 자유롭게 학습할 수 있으며, 학습내용과 관련된 최신의 정보를 참조할 수 있다. 그리고 이미지, 오디오, 비디오, 텍스트와 같은 풍부한 멀티미디어 인터페이스 (Interface)가 가능하고 게시판, 이메일, 채팅을 통하여 교사와 학습자간에 활발한 상호작용이 이루어질 수 있다는 점에서 교육적 가능성이 대두되고 있다. 학교나 교육담당자들도 이런 교육기자제의 첨단화 더불어 새로운 교수 학습 모형 개발에 힘을 쓰고 있다. 이에 본 논문은 구성주의 학습원리에 토대를 둔, 월 기반 교육시스템의 설계 및 구현을 통하여 학습자 중심의 자기주도적 학습활동이 이루어질 수 있는 교육환경을 구축하는데 그 목적이 있다. 라라서 학습자는 학습자의 필요(need)에 라라 선별적으로 강의를 수강할 수 있고, 키워드 정색을 통해 학습하고자 하는 내용을 구분하여 학습할 수 있도록 구현하였다. 이를 통해 학습자들이 자기 주도적으로 주어진 문제에 대해 스스로 해결하는 방법을 찾아 학습할 수 있도록 함으로씨 학습 능력을 키우도록 하는데 그 주안점이 있다.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.47-75
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• 2009

Recently, researches on Management Information Systems (MIS) have laid out theoretical foundation and academic paradigms by introducing diverse theories, themes, and methodologies. Especially, academic paradigms of MIS encourage a user-friendly approach by developing the technologies from the users' perspectives, which reflects the existence of strong causal relationships between information systems and user's behavior. As in other areas in social science the use of structural equation modeling (SEM) has rapidly increased in recent years especially in the MIS area. The SEM technique is important because it provides powerful ways to address key IS research problems. It also has a unique ability to simultaneously examine a series of casual relationships while analyzing multiple independent and dependent variables all at the same time. In spite of providing many benefits to the MIS researchers, there are some potential pitfalls with the analytical technique. The research objective of this study is to provide some guidelines for an appropriate use of SEM based on the assessment of current practice of using SEM in the MIS research. This study focuses on several statistical issues related to the use of SEM in the MIS research. Selected articles are assessed in three parts through the meta analysis. The first part is related to the initial specification of theoretical model of interest. The second is about data screening prior to model estimation and testing. And the last part concerns estimation and testing of theoretical models based on empirical data. This study reviewed the use of SEM in 164 empirical research articles published in four major MIS journals in Korea (APJIS, ISR, JIS and JITAM) from 1991 to 2007. APJIS, ISR, JIS and JITAM accounted for 73, 17, 58, and 16 of the total number of applications, respectively. The number of published applications has been increased over time. LISREL was the most frequently used SEM software among MIS researchers (97 studies (59.15%)), followed by AMOS (45 studies (27.44%)). In the first part, regarding issues related to the initial specification of theoretical model of interest, all of the studies have used cross-sectional data. The studies that use cross-sectional data may be able to better explain their structural model as a set of relationships. Most of SEM studies, meanwhile, have employed. confirmatory-type analysis (146 articles (89%)). For the model specification issue about model formulation, 159 (96.9%) of the studies were the full structural equation model. For only 5 researches, SEM was used for the measurement model with a set of observed variables. The average sample size for all models was 365.41, with some models retaining a sample as small as 50 and as large as 500. The second part of the issue is related to data screening prior to model estimation and testing. Data screening is important for researchers particularly in defining how they deal with missing values. Overall, discussion of data screening was reported in 118 (71.95%) of the studies while there was no study discussing evidence of multivariate normality for the models. On the third part, issues related to the estimation and testing of theoretical models on empirical data, assessing model fit is one of most important issues because it provides adequate statistical power for research models. There were multiple fit indices used in the SEM applications. The test was reported in the most of studies (146 (89%)), whereas normed-test was reported less frequently (65 studies (39.64%)). It is important that normed- of 3 or lower is required for adequate model fit. The most popular model fit indices were GFI (109 (66.46%)), AGFI (84 (51.22%)), NFI (44 (47.56%)), RMR (42 (25.61%)), CFI (59 (35.98%)), RMSEA (62 (37.80)), and NNFI (48 (29.27%)). Regarding the test of construct validity, convergent validity has been examined in 109 studies (66.46%) and discriminant validity in 98 (59.76%). 81 studies (49.39%) have reported the average variance extracted (AVE). However, there was little discussion of direct (47 (28.66%)), indirect, and total effect in the SEM models. Based on these findings, we suggest general guidelines for the use of SEM and propose some recommendations on concerning issues of latent variables models, raw data, sample size, data screening, reporting parameter estimated, model fit statistics, multivariate normality, confirmatory factor analysis, reliabilities and the decomposition of effects.

• 한국직업건강간호학회지
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.144-155
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• 1997

In December 1990, Occupational Safety and Health Law was amended to reinforce employer's responsibilities on employees' health and safety. Among the amended law it was important to expand the role of an occupational health nurse to the role of an occupational health manager. An occupational health manager should take charge of coordinating periodic health examination and environmental hazard evaluation, providing primary care, monitoring employees' health status, giving the workplace walk-through, selecting safe protection equipment, providing health information, counseling and health education, independently. This position of occupational health nurse is equivalent to the role of doctors or occupational hygienists. In 1991, government made a master plan to prevent occupational disease and injury. Under the plan, Korea Industrial Nursing Association (KINA) was established in 1994 with the purpose of improving health services and upgrading career opportunities for members. Therefore, this study was designed to analyze the transition of occupational health nursing education with the changes of law and policy in Korea between 1991 and 1996. In details, it was to analyze the rate of school providing occupational health nursing practice based lecture, lecture hours, lecture contents in undergraduate curriculum, program contents of graduate school, kinds of continuing education, etc. For this purpose, we conducted survey two times. In February 1991, baseline study was conducted with all nursing programs in Korea (19 BSN programs and 43 nursing departments of junior college). From April to May in 1996, the second survey was conducted with all nursing programs (38 BSN programs and 69 junior colleges). The first response rate was 66.1% and the second was 40.6%. Structured questionnaires were mailed to the deans or the community health nursing faculties. In the case of graduate school, telephone survey was conducted with 10 school of public health or environmental health area. Data from the yearbook of Industrial Safety Training Institute (ISTI), the history of Korea Industrial Health Association, and the journals of KINA were also included in the analysis. As the results, we found that there were remarkable improvement in undergraduate and graduate programs, obligatory as well as voluntary continuing education in terms of occupational health nursing expertise between 1991 and 1996. 1) The number of school providing occupational health nursing practice-based lecture was increased with the rate from 7.3% to 25.6%. The rate of school giving over 15 class-hours was increased from 33.3% to 46.6%. 2) Content areas were composed of introduction of occupational health, occupational epidemiology, industrial hygiene, occupational disease and injury, law and policy, health education, concept of occupational health nursing, role of occupational health nurse, occupational health nursing process, etc. Of content areas, occupational health nursing process was more emphasized with the increased rate from 43.9% to 88.4%. 3) In the case of graduate school, occupational health programs were increased from 4 to 10. One of them has developed occupational health nursing program as an independent course since 1991. 4) The law increased educational hours from 28 hours to 36 hours for introductory course at the time of appointment, and from 14 hours to 24 hours every 2 years for continuing education. Course contents were Occupational safety and health law, introduction of occupational health, health education methodology, planning and evaluation, periodic health exam, occupational disease care, primary care, emergency care, management, industrial environment evaluation, etc. In 1996, Korea Industrial Nursing Association has begun to provide continuing education after Industrial Safety Training Institute. 5) Various educational programs in voluntary base were developed such as monthly seminar, CE articles, annual academic symposium, etc. It was shown that changes of law and policy led rapid growth of occupational health nursing education in various levels. From this trend, it is expected that occupational health nurse expertise be continuously to be enhanced in Korea. Legal and political supports should proceed for the development of occupational health nursing in early stage.