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Issues and Effects in Developing Inquiry-Based Argumentation Task for Science Teachers: A Case of Charles' Law Experiment (탐구 실험을 활용한 과학교사 논변 과제 개발과정에서 드러난 쟁점 및 수정 효과: 기체에 대한 샤를의 법칙 실험 사례)

  • Baek, Jongho;Jeong, Dae Hong;Hwang, Seyoung
    • Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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    • v.34 no.2
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    • pp.79-92
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    • 2014
  • The purpose of this study is to develop an inquiry-based argumentation task for use in science teachers' professional development by providing them with the substantial experience of argumentation. To do so, the study has developed an argumentation task by utilizing the experiment on the Charles' Law of gas and revised by applying to eight teachers three times. We have revised the questions by analyzing three issues that have been revealed throughout this process in ways that facilitated teachers' argumentation. The effects of revision have been confirmed by the improvements in teachers' argumentation pattern. Three issues have been identified in developing argumentation tasks for science teachers' professional development and they are as follows: determining the openness of the structure of a question, achieving cognitive conflict and convergence of opinions at the same time, and ways of utilizing various evidence. As the task has been revised in ways that enabled scientific approach to the inquiry topic and facilitated the convergence of various opinions, the participants' argumentation patterns have improved both quantitatively and qualitatively. Meanwhile, the inclusion of an actual experiment has not influence their argumentation, while the observation of experimental data has been used as the core evidence according to the character of the problem. Based on the study's result, we suggest practical implications for developing argumentation tasks for science teachers in more varying contexts.

A Study on the Teachers' Health Problems and Their Visiting Frequencies of School Clinics (교직원 건건문제(健建問題) 및 양호실(養護室) 이용실태(利用實態)에 관(關)한 연구(硏究))

  • Choi, Jae Sun
    • Journal of the Korean Society of School Health
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.160-177
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    • 1988
  • This study is an analysis of the teachers' health problems that focuses on the frequencies and types of their visiting to school clinics and the management of health-related problems. The participants for this study are consisted of 1,650 teachers employed at 30 public schools in the Seoul area. Data for the study came from diagnostic records for 1986, the results of a questionaire-type survey conducted between June 20th and of the same year an from other documents recorded by school nurses. The main results of this study are as follows: 1. The teachers' health problems. a) According to health diagnosis records, 6.1 % of all teachers had a health problem. Liver-related ailments topped the list, followed by circulatory and diabetic problems. b) The survey data had 71.9 % of the respondents indicating that trey suffered from some health problem. The most frequent response concerned respiratory problems, followed by gastro-intestinal and nervous system problems. c) A check of clinic utilization records revealed that the main reasons for visiting are concerned with fatigue (30.5 %), gastro-intestinal(18.7 %) and respiratory(18.2 %) ailments. These three categories accounted for 67.4 % of total use. 2. Frequencies of their visiting to school clinics 40.5 % of the teachers indicated that they have visited the school clinic. And 62.0 % visited it with a self-diagnosed ailment and 15.3 % utilized the facility after a problem had been detected in a health examination. Clinics were visited a total of 1,458 times which breaks down to 0.9 times per month per teacher. For a patient, the figures are 2.2 times on the average with a range from 1 to 19. 3. Health management problems a) Of those respondents. 53.4 % stated that they didn't have enough time to consult about their health problems and diagnose their disease b) Also, 47.3 % of the respondents indicated that school nurses should give health counsels and health education. c) When questioned about improvements in the current system, the teachers placed importance on the prevention and management of chronic diseases (35.2 %) and pre- and posteducation concerning periodic health examinations In conclusion, the following points must be considered: First, school administrators need to pay more attention to the health problems of the teachers. Second, school nurses should be more active in managing a health program for teachers. Finally, education and training for nurses should be continually upgraded so that they can dispense proper and timely care for teachers.

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ICT Utilization and Recognition by Home Economics Teachers in Secondary schools (중등학교 가정과 교사의 ICT 활용수업의 실태와 인지도)

  • Kim Mi-Young;Kim Kyung-Ae;Wee Eun-Hah
    • Journal of Korean Home Economics Education Association
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.63-80
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    • 2004
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate the actual ICT utilization and recognition, to identify the effective and relevant chapters of home economics which can be taught using ICT in teaching and learning method. There were 372 secondary school teachers being participated in the survey. The results of this study can be summarized as follows 1. The reason why they have ICT utilization Instruction is to help the learners improve the academic accomplishment in the development stage through providing data from web-surfing and presentational data such as developed CD, animation and presentations. 2. Regarding ICT utilization capability. teachers have the capability to send and receive E-mail, make a presentation data. practical use of Internet. In addition, the group with less than 10 years experience have a higher capability in information technology. 3. Concerning ICT utilization recognition, this result shows that ICT Instruction is the most effective to motivate learners, and teachers anticipate ICT Instruction would improve the quality of the teaching & learning. 4. The chapter such as 'how to make clothing and recycling'(database). 'the foundation of cooking and its application' (database). 'gender and acquaintance of the opposite sex', 'nutrition of during adolescence' (simulation program) should be the first priority in the development.

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A Preliminary Study on Designing PDS Model for Korean Mathematics Teachers (한국형 수학교사 전문성 개발 체제(PDS) 모델 구축을 위한 기초 연구)

  • Lee, Kyeong Hwa;Na, Gwi Soo;Kwon, Na Young;Kim, Dongwon;Lee, Hwan Chul;Lee, Dong Hwan;Ko, Eun Sung;Park, Min Sun;Park, Mimi;Lee, Eun Jung;Cho, Jin Woo;Park, Jin Hyeong
    • Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.581-602
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    • 2012
  • For developing mathematics teachers' professionalism, it is necessary to construct PDS to provide training programs which are appropriate for Korean context and needed by mathematics teachers. This study is a preliminary study for constructing PDS and aims to design PDS model for Korean mathematics teachers. Firstly, components of model were elicited by theoretical review. Secondary, focus group discussion with 8 teachers and individual interview with 1 educational profession and 3 foreign mathematics education researchers were conducted. Finally, by reflecting FGD and interview results, the final version of PDS model was designed. The final model is constructed by 3 components, which are life cycle, program types, and participants. In addition, professional development topics for each life cycle according to PDS model are presented.

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A Study for the Middle School Science Curriculum to Enhance Creative Problem Solving Abilities-Focusing on the 6th National Curriculum and Classroom Observations- (창의적 문제 해결력 신장을 위한 중학교 과학 교육과정 연구-현행 교육과정과 수업현장 분석을 중심으로-)

  • Choi, Kyung-Hee;Cho, Yon-Soon;Choi, Duk-Joo
    • Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.149-160
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    • 1998
  • The purpose of this study was to analyze the 6th national secondary science curriculum and classroom practices to collect the basic data for developing secondary science program focusing on creative problem-solving ability. The creative problem-solving ability was conceptualized as an active process of producing new solutions to problems and consisted of five components: general knowledge, domain-specific knowledge, motivation, divergent thinking and critical thinking. The research questions were generated as follows: (1) Whether creative problem-solving elements-domain specific knowledge(declarative knowledge and inquiry methods) were included or not in the 6th secondary science curriculum, textbooks and teacher's guide? If so, how are they represented? (2) Whether the teachers tried to enhance divergent and critical thinking of their students. Through content analyses, observations and interviews, these research questions were answered as follows: (1) Inquiry methods, which are important to develop creative problem-solving abilities in science, were underestimated in comparison with declarative knowledge. In other words. inquiry methods were regarded only as tools to understand the scientific concepts and principles. (2) It was hard to find the situations which teachers provided opportunities for divergent and critical thinking to their students. Based on these results, the followings were recommended: (1) Inquiry methods should be regarded as a goal not as a tool and be used to acquire inquiry methods themselves. (2) Teachers should not stick to the prescribed inquiry methods prescribed in the textbook, but to give opportunities for thinking various kinds of inquiry methods to improve divergent and critical thinking.

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The Case Study of Reflective Practice of the Liberal Dance Class in University (대학 교양무용 수업의 반성적 실천 사례)

  • Park, Ji-Won;Kim, Je-Young;Kim, Ji-Young
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.13 no.11
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    • pp.626-635
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    • 2013
  • The purpose of this study is to research the practical cases of the reflective curriculum design and the improvement of the dance courses as a general education at University. This study deals with the recreation dance program with 40 students participating for 15 weeks. This study is qualitative research to explore the practical meaning and value the process on the basis of the interviews and reports of the students and the class evaluation of the instructors. The results were as follows: First is the experience of 'thinking dance'. Not just a functional movement, but moreover, they could experience the attraction, sensitivity and culture of the dance altogether. Second is the experience of 'communicating dance'. They experienced the sociability from the relationship with new partners, the overcome of the passivity (shyness) and the manner of consideration. The third is the experience of 'creating dance together'. As a member of a group, they could learn the integrity, responsibility and satisfaction in the middle of cooperative task performance. The view from the teacher regarding the class reflective assessment is as followed: The importance of dance instruction is to improve the expressive personality and potentiality of the students. Forcing the students to follow the basic choreography could be exhaustive.

Awareness of Teachers in a Region on School Dental Clinics and Preventive Programs (일부지역 교사의 학교구강보건실 및 예방사업 인지)

  • Ju, On-Ju;Jang, Yun-Jung
    • Journal of dental hygiene science
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.18-23
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    • 2015
  • A survey was conducted from September 9 to November 2, 2013, on 277 teachers in 10 different elementary schools to find out about their awareness of school dental clinics and preventive oral health programs. The schools were selected by convenience sampling from the city of Gunsan, North Jeolla Province. Out of the teachers, 133 teachers worked in five elementary schools equipped with school dental clinics, and 144 teachers worked in the other five elementary schools that weren't equipped with school dental clinics. As for data analysis, an IBM SPSS 21.0 was utilized as well. As a result of analyzing their opinions on the top priority of oral health programs, the teachers from the schools equipped with school dental clinics placed the most importance on application of fluorides and oral health education (71.1%), and the teachers from the schools without school dental clinics gave top priority to oral health education (76.5%). The 87.0% of the former replied that there was improvement in the oral health status of the students. The 74.4% of the latter answered they had never heard about school oral health programs, but 85.8% expected the introduction of school oral health programs to be of use for the improvement of the oral health state of the students. The 57.7% of the teachers from the schools with school dental clinics didn't think there were sufficient human resources who could be responsible for preventive oral health programs. As the successful performance of oral health programs by school dental clinics exerts a huge influence on not only the oral health promotion of school organizational members but that of community members, schools that aren't yet equipped with dental clinics should be informed about the necessity of school dental clinics, and the government should put more efforts into publicity activities about school dental clinics.

Perception and need of directors, child care teachers, and pre-service teachers on revised child care practicum (보육실습 개정안에 따른 어린이집 원장, 보육교사, 예비보육교사의 인식 및 요구)

  • Choi, Suk-Ran;Seo, Won-Kyung
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.15 no.12
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    • pp.79-93
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    • 2017
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate the perception and need for the revised child care practicum (January, 2017) in Korea. The participants were in three groups: 32 directors, 143 child care teachers and 130 pre-service teachers. Questionnaire were used ot collect the data and t-test, x-test and ANOVA were done for analysis. All three groups responded positively for the revised edition (extending the period of practicum from 4 weeks to 6 weeks). And perceived the extending the period is necessary for the quality of child care centers. Directors with the higher level of education perceived the revision clearly than others. Most of teachers perceived the change through teacher retraining program. All groups pointed out for the implementing the revised edition successfully, supporting and cooperative system is in need for three groups.

A Comparative Study on Cultural Children's of Young Environment among Large and Small Cities and Rural Areas (지역별(地域別)로 본 우리나라 유아환경(幼兒環境)의 실태조사(實態調査)와 바람직한 유아환경(幼兒環境)의 조성방안(造成方案)에 관(關)한 연구(硏究) -농어촌(農漁村)·중소도시(中小都市)·대도시(大都市)를 중심으로-)

  • Lee, Kyoung-Hee
    • Korean Journal of Child Studies
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    • v.1
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    • pp.40-64
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    • 1980
  • The purpose of this study was to compare the different environment among the young children of large and small cities and rural areas in Korea, in order to know how these different environment have an effect on the children's intellectual and emotional development. For this subjects, 2,700 questionares with 51 items were distributed to the infants' mothers in each area to interview and answer. About 1,800 questionaires were gathered from 3 metropolitan, 6 cities and 6 rural areas in (each 2 farming, fishing and mining villages) The results of analyzing these questionaires were like following; 1. The average number of children of each family was 2.5 in large cities, 3.0 in small cities and 3.6 in the rural areas. 2. White about 75% of infants' parents of large cities graduated college education, only 6% of the rural parents did it. Most infants' parents of the rural areas have only graduated the elementary school. 3. About 90% of the rural, small and large cities family have had radios and T.V sets, and 90% of infants watched T.V program for 2 hours a day in average. 4. While about 50% of large cities' young children were not reared by their mother's milk but by milk and other foods, about 95% of rural infants by breasting mills. 5. Young children of large cities were wearing about 5 months earlier than those of the rural. 6. While 20% children of cities were taught in the kindergarten, most children of the rural areas could not be taught in the kindergarten. 7. About 45% young children of the rural areas and cities were understood and taught reading, writing letters and numbers by their parents, brothers and sisters before entering primary school. 8. While 50% young children of large cities have had pianos and were taught music in kindergarten or piano tutor's, most of the rural areas have not had pianos and could not be taught music. 9. Most children's favorite music songs were T.V signals or C.M songs in both the rural and cities. 10. While most children of cities have had lots of children's pictures or fairy tale books. most infants of the rural areas have had nothing or a few. 11. As lots of infants could not find their pleasure resorts of sport tools outside, they used to play in side streets or publicroads with their friends. 12. While most infant's parents in cities wanted to make their infants lawyer or medicine doctor, most parents in rural areas wanted to make their children teacher or technician. 13. About a half of Korean infants have had their own rooms or have lived in it together with their brother or sister. In conclusion, as children of large cities have had more various kinds of cultural circumstances than the rural areas in aspects of cultural institutions' tools and environment of their parents' education, books, toys, pleasure resorts and their own rooms, the intellectual development of the former could be considered to surpass those of the latter. In other words, the average IQ points of urban's young children are 10 point higher than those of the rural areas, which means the better circumstance would affect the infant's intellectual development. Therefore, the government must support to make good circumstances of the children in the rural areas.

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A study on influence of pre-service early childhood teacher's achievement motivation and social intelligence on their social problem solving ability (예비유아교사의 성취동기와 사회지능이 사회문제해결력에 미치는 영향력 분석)

  • Park, Ji-Young;Chung, Yon-Hee
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.540-548
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    • 2017
  • This study analyzed the relationship between the achievement motivation and social intelligence in pre-service early childhood teachers and their achievement motivation and social intelligence. The achievement motivation Inventory for pre-service early childhood teachers (Song, 2004), the social intelligence questionnaire (Han, 2011) and the Children's social problem solving ability scale (Huh, 1999) were administered to 193 pre-service early childhood teachers. The data underwent Pearson correlation analysis using the SPSS 21.0 program. The results of this study were as follows. First, there were significant positive relationships among the achievement motivation, social intelligence, and social problem solving ability. Second, the achievement motivation and social intelligence was an important factor for predicting the social problem solving ability of pre-service early childhood teachers.