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A Practical Case Study of Student-Centered Education Using Small Group Activities: 'Prospect of Nuclear Engineering' Course (소그룹 활동을 활용한 학습자중심 교육 사례: '원자핵공학의 미래' 교과목을 중심으로)

  • Na, Yong-Su;Min, Hyeree
    • Journal of Engineering Education Research
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    • v.22 no.5
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    • pp.29-36
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    • 2019
  • Here we analyze a case of redesigned course named "Prospect of Nuclear Engineering" as an example of student-entered education which came to the fore of university education innovation. This course was reformed from lecture-based to student-centered class by changing the context as follows: Stimulating students by addressing various problems or episodes behind scientific and mathematical concepts in the history; Offering experimental project to perceive the importance of differential equations; Exploring the research status and issues of nuclear engineering and the ways of attacking them by discipline; Discussing the public acceptance of nuclear power plants. Small group activities using 'small group discussion' and 'peer-learning' have been applied in this course to enhance students' critical and creative ability. In the survey, students rated highly in the fact that they could actively interact with the peers and that they could think for themselves through 'small group discussion' and 'peer-learning' which is not just the way of conveying knowledge.

The Effect of the Argumentation Lessons according to Interaction on High School Students' Academic Achievement (상호작용에 따른 논증수업이 고등학생들의 학업성취도에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Bumjoon;Kim, Hyoungbum;Cho, Jeungeun;Bae, Sunghee
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Earth Science Education
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    • v.8 no.3
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    • pp.309-317
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    • 2015
  • This study aims to find out the argument structure which appears in the type of argument class (teacher- and student-centered) of the high school. The argument structure was compared and analyzed according to analyzing the study achievement and verified the academic achievement related to climate change. The results are listed below. First, the student-centered class is more effective method through the result that analyzed the class type of the teacher in argument-centered class. This result is to suggest more effective method to revitalize the argument activity of students-centered class which students plan for themselves and find more various materials. Second, teacher-centered class is more effective in contrast with argument analysis in the academic achievement test. While this is why the teacher-centered class utilizes an essential data necessary to curriculum in the argumentation, the elements to form the argument increased because students utilized the materials with their interest and concern in the process of proving in the student-centered class. Through the results of the research, it is necessary to develop the argument-centered programs for the science class and the curriculum-centered materials for argument class activity.

Effects of the Emotional Environmental Education Salovey through Educational Theatre on Elementary School Students' Environmental Literacy (교육 연극을 활용한 감성 중심 환경교육이 초등학생의 환경 소양에 미치는 영향)

  • Choi, Hye-Ran;Lee, Sang-Won
    • Hwankyungkyoyuk
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.43-55
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    • 2009
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate the influences of environmental education program through educational theatre on student's environmental literacy of 5th graders in an elementary school in Seoul. The students were divided into an experimental group and a control group. Then, the experimental group had the emotion-centered environmental education program using educational theatre, and the control group had the regular education process, which is a general lecture about the environment. The SPSS 12.0 program was used to analyze the results. The major result of the study was as follows. First, the researcher was able to develop and apply professor-learning model for the environment education using the educational theatre by abstracting and recreating environment-related contents from the 5th grade curriculum. Second, the study has showed that applying the emotion-centered program using the education theatre for the environment education certainly contributes to the improvement of the environment knowledge of the elementary students. Third, the emotion-centered environment education program has influenced evenly on the elements of the environment knowledge divided by the four goal levels of the environment education. Finally, the higher the student's emotional quotient is, the more improvement of the environment knowledge the student gets when using the emotion-centered environment education program using the education theatre. In conclusion, the emotion-centered environment education program using the education theatre is a usable method to the elementary schools, and has a positive effect on increasing the environment knowledge of 5th grade students. In the time of requiring the diverse environment education methods, this program is worth to try as a new education method. Therefore, it is necessary to research more on the professor-learning activities related to this study.

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Misunderstandings and Truth on Student-Centered Instruction (학습자 중심 수업에 대한 오해와 진실)

  • Kim, Jin-Ho
    • Education of Primary School Mathematics
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.81-94
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    • 2008
  • The 7th national curriculum requires the paradigmatic shift in education from teacher-centered to student-centered instruction. But, teachers beliefs on instruction have not been changed during implementing of the mathematics textbooks based on the curriculum. More exactly speaking, they are changed very slowly. Therefore, some beliefs they should establish in order for them to implement it were discussed: Perspectives of students' intelligent ability, learning goal for the every lesson, the passibility of teaching contents involved in the national curriculum, the size of classroom, and students' achievements.

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Sociomathematical Norms of Elementary School Classrooms: Crossnational Perspectives between Korea and U .S. on Challenges of Reform in Mathematics Teaching (초등학교 수학교실의 사회수학적 규범: 수학 지도에서의 개혁상의 문제에 대한 한국과 미국의 관점 비교)

  • ;David Kirshner
    • Education of Primary School Mathematics
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.1-36
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    • 1999
  • The case of four classrooms analyzed in this study point to many commonalities in the challenges of reforming mathematics teaching in Korea and the U. S. In both national contexts we have seen the need fur a clear distinction between implementing new student-centered social practices in the classroom, and providing significant new loaming opportunities for students. In particular, there is an important need to distinguish between attending to the social practices of the classroom and attending to students conceptual development within those social practices. In both countries, teachers in the less successful student-centered classes tended to abdicate responsibility fur sense making to the students. They were more inclined to attend to the literal statements of their students without analyzing their conceptual understanding (Episodes KA5 and UP 2). This is easy to do when the rhetoric of reform emphasizes student-centered social practices without sufficient attention to psychological correlates of those social practices. The more successful teachers tended to monitor the understanding of the students and to take proactive measures to ensure the development of that understanding (Episodes KO5 and UN3). This suggests the usefulness of constructivism as a model (or successful student-centered instruction. As Simon(1995) observed, constructivist teachers envision a hypothetical learning trajectory that constitutes their plan and expectation for students learning from the particular if the trajectory is being followed. If not, the teacher adjusts or supplements the task to obtain a more satisfactory result, or reconsider her or his assumptions concerning the hypothetical learning trajectory. In this way, the teacher acts proactively to try to ensure that students are progressing in their understanding in particular ways. Thus the more successful student-centered teacher of this study can be seen as constructivist in their orientation to student conceptual development, in comparison to the less successful student-centered teachers. It is encumbant on the authors of reform in Korea and the U. S. to make sure that reform is not trivialized, or evaluated only on the surface of classroom practices. The commonalities of the two reform endeavores suggest that Korea and the U. S. have much to share with each other in the challenges of reforming mathematics teaching for the new millennium.

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Effects of Online Project-Based Learning Application: A Case of Engineering Accounting Course (온라인 프로젝트기반 학습모형 적용과 효과: 공학회계 사례)

  • Kim, Moon-Soo
    • Journal of Engineering Education Research
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    • v.25 no.2
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    • pp.13-21
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    • 2022
  • In many existing studies, the analyses on the application and effect of the project-based learning model (PBL), a student-centered teaching and learning strategy, have been emphasized and carried out in various majors and courses. This case study analyzes the effects of applying a project-based learning model to the engineering accounting course for engineering students in 2021 in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, compared with the offline course in 2019 and the simple online course in 2020. Project team consisting of 2-3 students carried out online collaborative learning activities for solving open-ended problems through the 5-step PBL procedure including presenting the final result. Except for this online PBL application in 2021, textbooks, lecture contents, assignments, and tests were implemented the same for each semester for three years. Through lecture evaluation and survey by students, the online PBL application semester showed higher effects in inducing student-centered learning, lecture satisfaction, and student competency improvement compared to the non-applying semesters, further, it was evaluated that the online PBL application to the course and evaluation method were more appropriate than other semesters. It is expected that the online PBL method and operation procedure applied in this study can be utilized as a best practice for the design and operation of various online courses for student-centered collaborative learning activities and educational effects.

The Perception of Student Nurse For Problem Based Learning (간호학생의 문제중심학습에 관한 인식유형 : Q-방법론 적용)

  • Jo, Kae-Wha
    • The Journal of Korean Academic Society of Nursing Education
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.359-375
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    • 2000
  • PBL can be defined as an active, self-directed and student-centered learning, and an opposite way of classroom teacher-centered learning which has been traditional role learning. PBL enables students think more efficiently and effectively when puzzling through the patient problems. The purpose of this study is to find out the perception of student nurse about PBL, the characteristics and the structure of the type for PBL. The research process is as follow : First, the researcher selected 35 statements for PBL with the content analysis of in depth interview and the literature review. Second, the researcher asks 38 student nurse to classify the statement cards. The result of the research is that the type of student nurse's PBL perception is divided into 4 types(Affirmative type, Negative type, Suspicious type, and Preferable type), and the explanative total variance is 44 percent. In relation to this, if PBL well combined and adapted in our traditional curriculum will change our nursing education in better direction.

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The Effects of Science Teaching and Learning Using Student-led Instructional Strategies on Elementary School Students' Science Core Competencies (학생주도형 수업전략을 활용한 과학 교수 학습이 초등학생의 과학과 핵심역량에 미치는 효과)

  • Kang, Hountae;Noh, Sukgoo
    • Journal of Korean Elementary Science Education
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    • v.39 no.2
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    • pp.228-242
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    • 2020
  • The purpose of this study is to develop a student-led instructional strategy that is central to the teaching-learning process and to investigate its effects. For this study, we analyzed the learner-centered learning types (discovery learning, problem-based learning, inquiry learning) and extracted elements applicable to newly developed teaching-learning. Based on this, a student-led class strategy was established using pre-learning, teacher collaboration, small group composition, and limited open data and product presentation, and then science classes were conducted. As a result of the post-tests of the five science core competencies of the experimental group using the student-led instructional strategy and the comparative group conducting lecture-based classes, the experimental group showed higher scores than the comparative group in the scientific thinking, scientific communication, and scientific attitudes (p<.05). Based on these results, it was confirmed that the student-led class, in which the student self-adjusts the entire process of designing, exploring, and presenting learning, can help the student's scientific ability. In addition, I would like to discuss the implications of teachers' teaching-learning composition.

Curriculum Development of Instructional Laboratories in Materials Science and Engineering (재료공학 실험실습 교육과정 개발)

  • Kim, Eun-Kyung;Jeoung, Un-Yong;Park, Cheol-Min;Bae, Dong-Hyun;Min, Dong-Jun;Lee, Woo-Young
    • Journal of Engineering Education Research
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.43-57
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    • 2007
  • The paradigm of engineering education has evolved from subject-centered learning to student -centered learning. In particular, instructional laboratories can be an essential part of studentcentered learning. The curriculum of instructional laboratories in the departments of materials science and engineering, Yonsei University has been investigated. Student surveys on thecurriculum were also carried out. The curriculum was found to develop after reforming it on the basis of student-centered learning. Student feedback reflects that the new curriculum promoted student's active learning and that student's needs of instructional laboratories were considered in the curriculum.

Development and Application of the Student Activity-centered High School Science Textbook Model: Focused on Earth Science (학생 활동 중심의 고등학교 과학 교과서 모형 개발 및 적용: 지구과학 영역을 중심으로)

  • Lee, Hyonyong;Lee, Hyundong;Chae, Dong-hyun;Lim, Sung-man;Jeon, Jaedon
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Earth Science Education
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.139-151
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    • 2016
  • The purposes of this study were to develop the student activity-centered science textbook model in high school and explore the field application possibility. For development of student activity-centered science textbook model, we conducted a literature survey about foreign science textbook and science curriculum and we developed the textbook development framework based on 7E learning model. Based on framework, we developed student activity-centered science textbook model about achievement standards 'systems and interaction - earth systems'. A development model is the total amount of five class periods and the various objectives were reflected in pursuit systems thinking & STEAM. 1~4 class periods, learning content composed of student activity-centered exploration activities that organically associated to make final products. Fifth class period was presented to explore job and career. A development model was applied to high school class for one time study. Applying the result of field study, students were responded positively in interested about science class, textbook contents, made final product. Through this study, if science textbook was made on the basis of the revised student activity-centered science textbook model, students were lead to positive change in science class.