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The influence of functional health literacy on health promotion behavior (기능적 의료정보 이해능력이 건강증진행위에 미치는 영향)

  • Lee, Ji Eun;Lee, Seo Young;Noh, Hyun Kyung;Lee, Eunjoo
    • Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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    • v.26 no.6
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    • pp.1427-1438
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    • 2015
  • This study identified the level of functional health literacy and health promotion behavior and their relationship among middle-aged women. Data were collected from 163 middle-aged women between 40 and 64 residing D city and K province from December 1th to 26th, 2014 with a convenient sampling method. The average score of functional health literacy and health promotion behavior were $4.75{\pm}2.98$ and $2.30{\pm}0.55$, respectively Health promotion behavior was positively associated with functional health literacy. The full model accounted for 43.2% of the variance in health promotion behavior in middle-aged women. Therefore, strategies that effectively improving the level of functional health literacy are necessary to promote health behaviors in middle-aged women so that they have better health status and quality of life in later stage of life.

Effects of Eco-STEAM Program on Elementary School Students' Environmental Literacy and STEAM Attitude (과학과 Eco-STEAM 수업이 초등학생들의 환경소양과 STEAM 태도에 미치는 효과)

  • Lee, Sang-Gyun
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Earth Science Education
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.62-75
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    • 2017
  • The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of Environmental literacy and STEAM Attitude through the use of the Eco-STEAM program for elementary students. For the purpose of this study, a teaching plan and worksheet for students using Eco-STEAM Programs was developed and applied. Through the questionnaires and the analysis of students' outcomes, the effects on Environmental literacy and STEAM Attitude in both quality and quantity were verified. The results of this study are as follows: First, the improvement in the Environmental Literary score has statistically meaningful difference(p<.05). Second, the change in students' STEAM attitude by applying the Eco-STEAM program has statistically meaningful difference (p<.05). Third, according to the analysis of a questionnaire used to evaluate the program, students had a positive perception of the STEAM program and gained higher level of satisfaction about the lesson. Therefore, Eco-STEAM Program applied in this study might be useful to improve Environmental Literacy, and can be expected to improve STEAM literacy and should be widely applied to Science education.

A Study on Improvement Plan for Building Up Smart Literacy Core Competencies of Pre-Service Teachers (예비 교사의 스마트 리터러시 핵심 역량 강화를 위한 개선 방향 연구)

  • Jeon, Mi-Yeon;Kim, Mi-Yeon;Kim, Eui-Jeong
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2013.05a
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    • pp.421-426
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    • 2013
  • Under the education system which is shifting to smart circumstances the level of literacy competencies of pre-service teachers who carry out teaching and learning in the future will be drawn in this study. Because above all the role of inservice teachers is so important that smart education may be smoothly carried out and established, this study has been done for the purpose of establishing the understanding of smart literacy of pre-service teachers who carry out smart education in education field in the future and proposing what competencies be needed. To achieve this goal, first, examined the understanding of smart literacy of pre-service teachers on a basic research. Second, analyzed the competencies level of pre-service teachers on the basis of the index of core competencies for smart education. Third, proposed improvement plan for building up smart literacy core competencies of pre-service teachers. The subjects of this study were surveyed pre-service teachers in a college of education. On the grounds of study it is necessary that define a concept of smart literacy applicable to pre-service teachers and derive standard indexes of core competencies for smart education, also study proposed the requisite curriculum which is capable of fulfilling smart literacy core competencies and improvement plan for building up smart literacy core competencies which is able to reinforce field adaptability as smart education carried out in the high-tech learning circumstances like real education field.

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Analyzing the Main Paths and Intellectual Structure of the Data Literacy Research Domain (데이터 리터러시 연구 분야의 주경로와 지적구조 분석)

  • Jae Yun Lee
    • Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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    • v.40 no.4
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    • pp.403-428
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    • 2023
  • This study investigates the development path and intellectual structure of data literacy research, aiming to identify emerging topics in the field. A comprehensive search for data literacy-related articles on the Web of Science reveals that the field is primarily concentrated in Education & Educational Research and Information Science & Library Science, accounting for nearly 60% of the total. Citation network analysis, employing the PageRank algorithm, identifies key papers with high citation impact across various topics. To accurately trace the development path of data literacy research, an enhanced PageRank main path algorithm is developed, which overcomes the limitations of existing methods confined to the Education & Educational Research field. Keyword bibliographic coupling analysis is employed to unravel the intellectual structure of data literacy research. Utilizing the PNNC algorithm, the detailed structure and clusters of the derived keyword bibliographic coupling network are revealed, including two large clusters, one with two smaller clusters and the other with five smaller clusters. The growth index and mean publishing year of each keyword and cluster are measured to pinpoint emerging topics. The analysis highlights the emergence of critical data literacy for social justice in higher education amidst the ongoing pandemic and the rise of AI chatbots. The enhanced PageRank main path algorithm, developed in this study, demonstrates its effectiveness in identifying parallel research streams developing across different fields.

Analysis of Research Trends in Information Literacy Education Using Keyword Network Analysis and Topic Modeling (키워드 네트워크 분석과 토픽모델링을 활용한 정보활용교육 연구 동향 분석)

  • Jeong-Hoon, Lim
    • Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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    • v.39 no.4
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    • pp.23-48
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    • 2022
  • The purpose of this study is to investigate the flow of domestic information literacy education research using keyword network analysis and topic modeling and to explore the direction of information literacy education in the future. For this reason, 306 academic papers related to information literacy education published in academic journals of the library and information science field in Korea were chosen. And through the preprocessing process for abstracts of the paper, total keyword appearance frequency, keyword appearance frequency by period, and keyword simultaneous occurrence frequency were analyzed. Subsequently, keyword network analysis analyzed the degree centrality, between centrality, and eigenvector centrality of keywords. Using structural topic modeling analysis, 15 topics -curriculum, information literacy effect, contents of information literacy education, school library education, information media literacy, information literacy ability evaluation index, library anxiety, public library program, health information literacy ability, digital divide, library assisted instruction improvement, research trend, information literacy model, and teacher role-were derived. In addition, the trend of topics by year was analyzed to confirm the change in relative weight by topic. Based on these results, the direction of information literacy education and the suggestions for follow-up research were presented.

Analysis of Digital Literacy Level of Reserve Officers' Training Corps in K-University (K-대학교 학군사관 후보생의 디지털 리터러시 수준분석)

  • Choi, Chul-Jae;Kang, Dong-Soo;Choi, Jin-Sik
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.113-118
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    • 2018
  • In this research, we conducted a questionnaire using the existing developed digital literacy checklist for analyzing the digital literacy level of Reserve Officers' Training Corps in K-University. In order to verify the validity and reliability of the measurement results collected on the basis of the response results, factor analysis of the question was carried out using the statistical analysis program SPSS 21.0, for each research group, the ability level by each factor was analyzed. Based on the results of analysis using frequency analysis, T-test and One-way ANOVA, we suggested measures to improve digital literacy level of school district officer candidates.

Socio-Economic Factors and Rural Competitive Advantage: The Moderating Role of Economic Literacy

  • RUSTANTONO, Hendra;SOETJIPTO, Budi Eko;WAHJOEDI, Wahjoedi;SUNARYANTO, Sunaryanto
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.7 no.8
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    • pp.151-159
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    • 2020
  • This study aims to determine the factors influencing the community behavior in improving competitive rural tourism as well as understanding the role of economic literacy in mediating socio-economic indicators and rural competitive advantage. This research followed an explanatory research to examine the relationship between variables including socio-economic variables and rural tourism competitive advantage. The data was gathered by conducting observations and interviews with tourism businesses, stakeholders, and the local village government, and related agencies as respondents. Furthermore, the data were analyzed following inductive and descriptive statistics. The findings indicated that, from all variables used, solely the environmental impact variable did not affect economic literacy and the competitive advantage of rural tourism. The moderating variables showed that the economic literacy mediates the economic impact on rural tourism competitive advantage. In addition, socio-cultural impacts on rural competitive advantage tourism, and the stakeholder involvement affects rural competitive advantage tourism. However, economic literacy failed in mediating between environmental impacts on rural competitive advantage tourism. This is due to the increasing understanding of the economy of the community around the tourist attractions it will increase the business around the tourist attractions that have an impact on environmental damage around the tourist attractions.

Measuring the Level of Health Literacy and Influence Factors: Targeting the Visitors of a University Hospital's Outpatient Clinic (건강정보 이해능력 수준과 영향요인에 대한 고찰: 대학병원 외래 방문객을 대상으로)

  • Kim, Jeongeun
    • Journal of Korean Clinical Nursing Research
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.27-34
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    • 2011
  • Purpose: The objective of this research was to measure health literacy level of the visitors of a university hospital's out patient clinic and to consider its influence factors. Methods: Subjects were 400 visitors in an outpatient clinic of a university hospital. By using self-report questionnaire which included Newest Vital Sign (NVS) and general information inquiry, the level of health literacy and its influence factors were measured. The data were analyzed by using t-test, ANOVA, and Pearson's correlation. Results: The NVS score of subjects was $3.54({\pm}1.91)$ out of maximum 6 scale. The factors that have significant relationships with the health literacy were age, sex, marital status, educational background, monthly income, health information source, number of diseases, number of medications and drinking status. Participants who are men, in old age, having lack of supportive relationship, having low levels of education, having low income, having more comorbid diseases & medications, tend to have lower NVS score compared to others. Conclusion: We suggest extending our research results for evaluating the risky group to improve the health literacy and to develop the strategic methods for better health outcomes.

Investigation on Media Literacy of China Government Officials: Under the View of Public Opinion Guidance

  • Yang, Ting;Seo, Sangho
    • International Journal of Contents
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.10-17
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    • 2018
  • China media environment has drastically changed leading to the an inevitable change of public opinion ecology. Empirical studies have focused less on public opinion guidance, which forms an important component of the government officials' media literacy. This study applied quantitative method in the investigation of media literacy in China. Ideally, media literacy is measured from media cognition, media contact, media usage under the view of public opinion guidance. The findings reveal that the existing problem on 1) incorrect media cognition and public opinion guidance; 2) insufficient contact of personal social media 3) improper tendencies in the use of media to guide the public opinion, especially, on confidential information. Consequently, in order to improve media literacy in China government officials, enhancement of their basic knowledge on news diffusion and public opinion is necessary. Secondly, to effectively deal with "agenda settings", it is important for the government to consider the provision of valuable information and platforms to effectively spread information. So they need to learn how to personally and officially use social media platforms such as Weiboa and Wechat. This ensures they have maximized their potential to acquire valuable information and spread them on valuable platforms. Thirdly, government officials should be able to analyze and understand public opinion trends for official and personal use. Finally, they should understand the development of public opinion and the how online public opinion laws are formed and the target group.

The Development of Digital Age Literacy: A Case Study in Indonesia

  • MUJTAHID, Iqbal Miftakhul;BERLIAN, Mery;VEBRIANTO, Rian;THAHIR, Musa;IRAWAN, Dedi
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.1169-1179
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    • 2021
  • This research aims to develop the instrument of feasible and reliable digital-age literacy to be used in the learning process. This needs to be done due to a different region, tribe, and gender involved in this research. The digital-age literacy developed in this research consisting of 8 constructs, including 1) basic literacy, 2) scientific skill, 3) economy skill, 4) information skill, 5) technology skill, 6) visual skill, 7) various cultures skill, and 8) global awareness. As many as 650 respondents were chosen through stratified and random sampling in this survey. Those respondents were students at Universitas Terbuka based on gender and Ethnicity comparison. To see the internal consistency, the data were then analyzed using SPSS 23.00 version for Windows. It was obtained that all questionnaire constructs were valid and reliable, proven by obtaining a high mean reliability value of Cronbach Alpha (0.816 > 0.6), in which each item had a high value (0.778-0.841). Therefore, the number obtained the results proved that this research had produced a quality instrument that can be used to evaluate the students' mastery of the digital-age literacy of the learning process in Universitas Terbukain Asia, especially in Indonesia.