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Analysis of Children's Experiences in Plants and Their Relationship with Ecological Literacy (초등학생의 식물에 대한 경험 분석 및 생태적 소양과의 관계)

  • Ju, Eun Jeong;Kim, Jae Geun
    • Journal of Korean Elementary Science Education
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    • v.32 no.4
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    • pp.404-414
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    • 2013
  • This study was conducted for investigating the characteristics of children's experiences in plants and their relationship with ecological literacy. 578 primary students participated in our survey, who consisted of 240 urban and 338 semi-rural children. The questionnaire for this study was composed of items about their experiences in plants and ecological literacy. Children's experiences in plants were classified to 5 factors; indirect/observable, living, investigative, negative, and active experiences in plants. The most important factor of them is indirect/observable experience which tends to be passive. Children's ecological literacy and experiences in plants were not different with a place of residence but had difference with sexual. Most children's experiences in plants had correlation with ecological literacy. Ecological sensibility was the most important variable for explanation of the relation between children's ecological literacy and experiences in plants. It is recommended that supplying experiments in plants to children is important for promoting their ecological literacy.

Elementary School Children's Environmental Literacy and Affecting Variables (초등학교 저학년 학생들의 환경소양 및 환경소양에 영향을 미치는 변인)

  • Chu Hye-eun;Lee Eun-a;Ko Hee-ryung;Shin Dong-hee;Lee Moon-nam
    • Journal of Korean Elementary Science Education
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.310-320
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    • 2005
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate young children's environmental literacy level and variables that affected their environmental literacy. Of the students, 969 in third grade from big cities, medium sized cities and rural areas participated in this study, and their environmental literacy was measured through 69 questions consisted of 24 items for knowledge, 22 for attitude, 16 for behavior, and 7 for skills with 13 demographic variables. Eighty minutes were given to answer the questions. Statistical analysis was conducted on each of the categories (knowledge, attitude, behavior, skill) that make up environmental literacy and multivariate analysis variance (MANOVA) was also conducted to investigate variables that affect environmental literacy. Results indicated that the correlation between attitude and behavior is the highest. Also, it was found that a demographic variable might affect one, two, or sometimes all categories of the environmental literacy.

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A Study on the Development of Information Literacy Textbook, School Library and Information Literacy (학교도서관의 정보활용교육을 위한 "도서관과 정보생활" 교과서 개발에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Sung-Jun
    • Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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    • v.42 no.3
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    • pp.271-292
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    • 2011
  • Information literacy education is a important role of today's school libraries. So the development of information literacy curriculum and textbook is necessary to establish educational role of school libraries more firmly. The purpose of this study is to examine the development of new information literacy textbook, School Library and Information Literacy published in 2011. For this, this study investigated the status of information literacy education and instructional media in Korea, the United States and Japan. After all, this study presented the textbook's development progress, curriculum, contents and method of application.

Factors related with Health Literacy in Asian Immigrant Women in Korea (결혼이주여성의 건강문해력과 관련요인)

  • An, Jisook;Kim, Hye-Ryun;Yang, Sook Ja
    • Research in Community and Public Health Nursing
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    • v.24 no.4
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    • pp.377-387
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    • 2013
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study is to identify health literacy levels of Asian immigrant women in Korea and factors related with health literacy in them among other sociodemographic characteristics. Methods: Data were drawn from 671 immigrant women who came from China, Vietnam, the Philippines, and other Asian countries (M age=$28.1{\pm}5.89$) using REALM-R, which consisted of 8 medical words and was translated into Korean (score range: 0~8). Data were analyzed using SPSS/WIN 20.0 program for descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Scheff\acute{e} test and multiple regression. Results: The average score of health literacy was $5.0{\pm}2.61$. Time since immigration, country of origin, education level, and Korean language proficiency significantly predicted levels of health literacy in Asian immigrant women (adjusted R square=.200, p<.001). Conclusion: When health care professionals provide health care services and health education, they should consider levels of health literacy and factors related with health literacy in Asian immigrant women.

A Study on the Information Literacy Education of School Library in the USA (미국 학교도서관의 정보활용능력 교육에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Jong-Sung
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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    • v.37 no.2
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    • pp.229-252
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    • 2003
  • The purpose of this study is to investigate the information literacy curriculum of school library in the USA. The write, to understand the characteristics and principles of information literacy curriculum, analyzes national standards and some state curricula for information literacy education. Finally, through presenting a couple of lessons which were organized based on the information literacy curriculum, drawing out some strategies for development of information literacy curriculum for school library education in Korea.

Effect of Digital Selling Readiness on Salespeople's Customer-Oriented Behavior Through Digital Literacy and Self-Efficacy

  • Hyunseung NA;Hangeun LEE;Chankoo YEO
    • Journal of Distribution Science
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.95-102
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    • 2024
  • Purpose: This study systematically examined the concept of digital selling readiness of salespeople. Additionally, this study empirically confirms the sequential mediating roles of digital literacy and salesperson self-efficacy in the impact of digital selling readiness on customer-oriented behavior. Research design, data, and methodology: We collected data from salespeople at a Bank and Financial Service firm in South Korea. A total of 254 salespeople were invited to participate, with 154 surveys returned. After removing the questionnaires with missing values, 150 complete surveys were employed for the analysis. Results: The empirical analysis indicates that digital selling readiness positively affects digital literacy. Digital literacy, in turn, is positively associated with self-efficacy, leading to increased customer-oriented behaviors among salespersons. This study also confirms the sequential mediating effects of digital literacy and self-efficacy in the impact of salespeople's digital selling readiness on customer-oriented behavior. Conclusions: Our research deepens the understanding of how digital selling readiness fosters customer-oriented behavior through the sequential mediating effects of digital literacy and self-efficacy. This study extends the previous model by sequentially involving digital literacy and self-efficacy to better understand the psychological processes of digital selling. The results highlight the role of digital selling readiness in preparing salespeople for digital sales.

A Diagnostic Analysis of LIS Curriculum from the Meta-literacy Perspective (메타리터러시 관점에서의 문헌정보학 전공 커리큘럼 진단연구)

  • Yoo, Sarah
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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    • v.52 no.2
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    • pp.191-220
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    • 2018
  • Using Bloom's taxonomy model of thinking ability for learning (RBTT) and new ACRL information literacy framework (2016), this study demonstrates the meta-literacy competencies for library specialists and analyses current LIS curriculum of higher education. Some guidelines for reformation of LIS curriculum, emphasizing meta-literacy competencies which are required from Web3.0 information environment, are provided.

The Causal Structure to the Scientific Motivation and the Scientific Literacy Competency in Pre-service Elementary Teachers (초등예비교사의 과학 동기유발과 과학적 소양의 역량에 대한 인과구조)

  • Kim, Dong-Uk
    • Journal of Korean Elementary Science Education
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    • v.36 no.3
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    • pp.208-218
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    • 2017
  • This study was to investigate factors and disclose causal model of the scientific literacy competency about the motivation for science and the scientific literacy competency. The 3 grade university students and the 1 grade university students as pre-service elementary teachers were participated to questionnaire investigation. The data were analyzed by the factor analysis method and the structural equation model method, and the following results were obtained. First, the 3 grade university students and the 1 grade university students perceived the science interest factors and science usefulness factors as the motivation for science, and also revealed the scientific problem recognition factor and the scientific evidence use factor as the scientific literacy competency. Second, the science interest factor had a greater effect on the scientific problem recognition factor than the scientific evidence use factor in both the 3 grade and 1 grade university students. In the path from the science usefulness factor to the scientific problem recognition factor, the science usefulness factor of the 3 grade university students had a greater influence on the direct route to the scientific problem recognition factor than that of the 1 grade university students. In the path from the science usefulness factor to the scientific evidence use factor, the science usefulness factor of the 1 grade university students influenced more on the direct route to the scientific evidence use factor than that of the 3 grade university students.

Bringing Computational Thinking into Science Education

  • Park, Young-Shin;Green, James
    • Journal of the Korean earth science society
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    • v.40 no.4
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    • pp.340-352
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    • 2019
  • The purpose of science education is scientific literacy, which is extended in its meaning in the $21^{st}$ century. Students must be equipped with the skills necessary to solve problems from the community beyond obtaining the knowledge from curiosity, which is called 'computational thinking'. In this paper, the authors tried to define computational thinking in science education from the view of scientific literacy in the $21^{st}$ century; (1) computational thinking is an explicit skill shown in the two steps of abstracting the problems and automating solutions, (2) computational thinking consists of concrete components and practices which are observable and measurable, (3) computational thinking is a catalyst for STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) education, and (4) computational thinking is a cognitive process to be learned. More implication about the necessity of including computational thinking and its emphasis in implementing in science teaching and learning for the envisioned scientific literacy is added.

Entrepreneurial Performance: The Role of Literacy and Skills

  • SARIWULAN, Tuty;SUPARNO, Suparno;DISMAN, Disman;AHMAN, Eeng;SUWATNO, Suwatno
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.7 no.11
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    • pp.269-280
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    • 2020
  • This research aims to determine the direct and indirect effects of digital literacy, economic literacy, and entrepreneurial skills on the performance of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in garment clusters in the Bulak tourism industry Depok. Carrying out quantitative research with survey methods, data collection is using a questionnaire technique with 90 respondents, via saturation sampling. This research data analysis uses SPSS software version 25.0. Path analysis is used to determine the direct and indirect effects between variables. The results showed digital literacy, economic literacy, and entrepreneurial skills significantly and positively affect the performance of small- and medium-sized enterprises. The main finding in this study is that digital literacy has the greatest influence on the performance of SME entrepreneurs, both directly and indirectly. The results of the study provide input on performance development strategies for SME entrepreneurs through digital literacy, including digital business relationships, online facilities, and networks. The findings are also complementary to the factors shaping the performance of SME entrepreneurs in the digital age. The research results show that digital literacy has the greatest direct and indirect influence on the performance of SME entrepreneurs; this shows the essential contribution of digital literacy in developing business and marketing networks.