• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.437-451
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• 1995

Middle and high school students' conceptual understanding about stoichiometry, gas laws, and diffusion was compared with essay type test and multiple choice test. Whereas achievement of high school students was higher in stoichiometry, that of middle school students who were expected to go to high schools was higher in gas laws and diffusion. When students' achievement was compared to that of American college students, Korean students' achievement was higher in stoichiometry and was similar in gas laws. These results indicate that algorithmic problem solving is more emphasized than conceptual understanding in high schools and that quantitative aspects focused in chemistry education are not helpful in concept understanding. Nevertheless relatively smaller difference between concept understanding and algorithmic problem solving for high school students in this study seems to be from concept learning in middle schools.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.99-106
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• 2015

This study aims to examine the effects of academic procrastination in middle school students on their academic achievement. It also analyzed the influences of stress level recognized by middle school students on their academic achievement. First, it examined theoretical and preceding studies and assumed that sub-factors of academic procrastination in middle school students such as behavioral, cognitive and emotional factors affected their academic achievement. It was assumed that the middle school students' stress had the direct mediating effects on their academic achievement. As a result of the research, it was found that sub-factors of academic procrastination in middle school students such as behavioral, cognitive and emotional factors had partially direct influence on their stress and academic achievement. It was shown that the analysis of mediating effects from middle school students' stress had no influence on the academic achievement. This study presented policy suggestions of academic achievement in middle school students as an alternative based on the research results.

• Journal of the Korean Society of School Health
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.61-77
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• 1991

This study was carried out from April 11 to May 10 1990, in order to evaluate the effect of health education by school nurses on the regular schedule of 6 hours per week from 1987, and to compare with the result of the same study performed in 1987. The data were collected by questionnaire from 589 primary school students, 425 middle school students, and 888 high school students, total 1,902 students, and 208 primary school teachers, 169 middle school teachers, and 539 high school teachers, total 916 teachers in Seoul. Analysis of data was done utilizing SPSS-X program for percentage, frequency and Chi-square test. The major results obtained from this study were as follows: 1. The demand of health education was higher in high school students(p<0.01), but not in other students and teachers than in 1987(p>0.01). 2. The satisfaction to health education was higher in middle school and high school students, and high school teachers(p<0.01), but not in other students and teachers than in 1987(p>0.01). 3. The concern about school health events was higher in primary school and high school students than in 1987(p<0.01), but not in middle school students and every school teachers than in 1987(p>0.01). 4. The practice of knowledge obtained from health education was more in every school students than in 1987(p<0.01). 5. The delivery of knowledge obtained from health education to family was higher in primary school students, but lower in high school students than in 1987(p<0.01). 6. The concern about school nursing room was higher in primary school students(p<0.01), but not in other students(p>0.01). 7. The interest pattern of students about health was revealed to be changed compared with the data obtained in 1987 : the most interested part was family health and sex. The school level was statistically significant(p<0.01).

• Journal of Forest and Environmental Science
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• v.36 no.3
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• pp.243-254
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• 2020

This study was conducted to develop a forest education program through middle school curriculum linkage. We used the ADDIE model, comprising the five phases of Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation and Evaluation, to secure the objectivity of the program. In the Analysis phase, middle school textbooks were analyzed while considering middle school students' needs for curriculum linkage and the developmental stages of adolescents. The Design phase focused on promoting an understanding of curriculum subjects based on what was reviewed in the Analysis phase and concretized and organized a program that can be implemented in the forest, with a focus on science and physical education, based on the results of middle school students' needs. We also established the objectives and goals of curriculum linkage forest education, established the concept of the program, and selected the educational contents, teaching-learning methods, and evaluation methods. In the Development phase, we developed a 2-night, 3-day program linkage with the middle school curriculum and created a manual for instructors and a workbook for students. In the Implementation phase, we revised and supplemented the program through the first test operation with 24 students in their second year of middle school, after which, we carried out a six-session program for the 2-night, 3-day as the second test operation with 17 students in their second year of middle school. In the Evaluation phase, the program was evaluated by the students who participated in the second test operation using questionnaires on satisfaction and curriculum linkage understanding as well as rating scales for attitudes toward forests and environmental sensitivity. The results showed that middle school students showed positive significance in satisfaction and understanding of the middle school curriculum as well as attitudes toward forests and environmental sensitivity through the forest education program.

• Journal of Korean Home Economics Education Association
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.161-177
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• 1997

The purpose of this study is to understand middle school students’behavior of purchasing school things at rural area and to provide basic data which is necessary for consumer education to help them with more reasonable purchasing behavior. The results of this study were as follows； 1) The level of purchasing behavior for the school things of middle school students at rural area is 3.15 out of perfect Score 5, and shows medium level. Middle school students’behavior of purchasing school things at rural area showed significant difference in social demographic variables such as sex, grade and keeping a record money spending. 2) 75.5% of middle school student’s consuming experiences was show to be on a midium. According to the results of this study, it was showed the more consuming experience they had, the more reasonable purchasing behavior they did. There was significant positive correlation between consuming experiences and behavior of purchasing school things. 3) Middle school students at rural area were highly realizing the necessity for consuming education both at home(91%) and at school(93.9%). Also, there was a significant positive correlation between the necessity for consumer education and behavior of purchasing school things.

• The Korean Journal of Community Living Science
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.155-166
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• 2015

This thesis attempts to provide a foundation for effective preventative education of middle school students regarding school violence after identifying the level of perception of school violence as well as analyzing perception of preventive education among students. The study compiled data on 474 middle school students from middle schools in Jeollanamdo. The findings of the study are as follows. First, most of the students were aware of the necessity for preventive education regarding school violence. By gender, girls and those of lower grades showed great class participation and satisfaction. Second, research on the preventive education found differences in the seriousness of school violence according to school location. Fourth, preventive education conducted once or twice a month was the most desirable condition for middle school students. As a result, schools should consider gender differences and grade level when, developing an education program in order to prevent school violence.

• Korean Journal of Community Nutrition
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.582-592
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• 2010

The purpose of this study was to determine the factors related to eating breakfast for middle and high school students in Seoul using the Theory of Planned Behavior. Out of 2,280 questionnaires distributed to 22 schools, 2,060 were returned (90.4% response rate) and 1,899 were analyzed (83.3% analysis rate). Gender, self-perceived household income level and mother's working status were examined as demographic factors. "Attitude", "Subjective norm", "Perceived difficulty in access to breakfast", "Perceived time restriction" and "Self restriction to breakfast" were extracted as psychosocial factors as the results of factor analysis and reliability test using 17 items. In case of middle school students, boys were more likely to skip breakfast than girls. The students perceiving their household income level "low or middle low" were more likely to skip breakfast than those who perceived their household income level "high or middle high". The students whose mother had a job tended to skip breakfast than those whose mother had no job. In case of high school students, the students perceiving their household income level "low or middle low" tended to skip breakfast than those perceiving their household income level "high or middle high". The results of analysis of variance, all the psychosocial factors examined in this study-"Attitude", "Subjective norm", "Perceived difficulty in access to breakfast", "Perceived time restriction" and "Self restriction to breakfast"- were related to the frequencies of eating breakfast during weekdays in both the middle and high school students.

• Journal of Environmental Science International
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• v.17 no.12
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• pp.1315-1324
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• 2008

This study was investigated on the consciousness of middle school students in Jeju city about the environmental education through questionnaire, in order to understand the actual conditions of environmental education and to find out the solutions about them. Middle 'school students responded that environmental education in school was taken at the class for the special activity or voluntary service, not in regular class and was worked as in the form of the field trip. They generally obtain the knowledge and informations on the environmental problems from mass media such as TV, radio and newspaper than from regular environment class in school. And 36.0% of students perceive that environmental education is needed as a regular class and 31.3% of students perceive that the regular class in school is effective to the environmental education. These results suggest that many students are interested in the regular environment class in school. However, the most of students responded that the regular environment class in school is not worked or is not worked at all, suggesting that the environmental education in middle school is not worked effectively. Most of students prefer to take the environment class in the form of observation or field trip, and they think that observation or field trip is more effective to obtain environmental informations. In conclusion, the special activity such as observation or field trip needs to be supplemented to regular environment class in order to improve the environmental education in middle school more effectively.

• Journal of Fisheries and Marine Sciences Education
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• v.25 no.6
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• pp.1429-1439
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• 2013

This study is about the influence of middle school students' empathic ability on receptive attitude to students with disabilities. The questionnaire survey is used to measure cognitive, emotional empathy ability and the attitude of acceptance for students with disabilities targeting 300 students of middle school 2,3 grades. Empathy ability consists of 20 questions and the attitude of acceptance for students with disabilities is composed of 31 questions, which are three sub-areas like personal life, school life and learning activities. After subjects were divided into top 30%, middle 40% and bottom 30% according to their empathy ability, the attitude of acceptance for students with disabilities was measured. The results are as follows. There was a difference between groups in receptive attitude as a whole and the sub-areas. And the top group with high empathy ability had more acceptable attitude. In particular, there was a significant difference in the acceptance attitude for students with disabilities depending on the level of cognitive empathy ability rather than emotional empathy ability.

• Journal of the Korean Society of School Health
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.140-147
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• 2014

Purpose: This study aimed to identify the factors affecting on depression among female middle school students. Methods: A survey was conducted on 217 first and second grade female middle school students in C city. Participants' general characteristics, home environment, level of depression, paternal, maternal, peer attachment, school adjustment were measured by self-reporting questionnaire. With SPSS 18.0 program, measured variables were analyzed and compared using descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Scheff$\acute{e}$ post hoc test, and stepwise multiple regression analysis. Results: The level of depression among female middle school students were higher among students with lower economic status, second in birth order, and second grade in school. The level of depression was negatively associated with the level of paternal attachment (r=-.522), maternal attachment (r=-.487), peer attachment (r=-.376), relationship with teachers in school adjustment (r=-.274), relationship with friends in school adjustment (r=-.378), classroom behavior (r=-.450), school regulation (r=-.267). About 42% of depression among female middle school students were explained by paternal attachment, relationship with friends in school adjustment, and classroom behavior. Conclusion: Paternal attachment was identified as the most influencing factor on depression among female middle school students. Encouraging paternal involvement in the process of school adjustment might be a useful intervention to decrease depression among middle school girls.