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Measurement and Interpretation of Undergraduate Students' Writing about the Experiments of the Photoelectric Effect

  • Jho, Hunkoog;Ji, Youngrae
    • New Physics: Sae Mulli
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    • v.68 no.11
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    • pp.1231-1239
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    • 2018
  • This study aimed at examining undergraduate students' writing about experiments related to the photoelectric effect and giving some implications for experiment education. Thus, this study analyzed 26 students' reports about three kinds of experiments: measuring Planck's constant, comparing the photocurrent and the photovoltage across the intensity of light, and comparing the photocurrent and the photovoltage across the frequency of light. In the measurements, less than 25% of the students expressed the data to the correct number of significant figures even though two-thirds of the students successfully obtained the data given in the manual. In terms of interpretation, the students were not aware of the physical meanings of the detailed parts in the graphs. Even though over 50% of the students drew a line relating photocurrent to voltage, no students compared the theoretical to the empirical data or made a judgment as to whether of not the background theory really fit the experiment. The research findings showed that insufficient knowledge and skills for physics inquiry may be an obstacle in performing the experiments well.

Opportunities of Organization of Classes in Foreign Languages by Means of Microsoft Teams (in Practice of Teaching Ukrainian as Foreign Language

  • Olha Hrytsenko;Iryna Zozulia;Iryna Kushnir;Tetiana Aleksieienko;Alla Stadnii
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.160-172
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    • 2024
  • The characteristic aspects of learning a foreign language require special resources and tools for online learning. Criteria for choosing educational platforms depend on key elements of an academic subject area. Microsoft Teams (hereafter, MT) educational platform is competitive one because it meets most of the needs that arise during the formation of a secondary linguistic persona. Due to the large number of corporate programs, there are a successful acquisition of language skills and the implementation of all types of oral activities of students. A significant MT advantage is the constant analysis and monitoring of the platform of participants' needs in the educational process by developers. The article highlights MT advantages and disadvantages. The attention is drawn to individual programs, which, in the authors' opinion, are the most successful to learn writing, reading, speaking, listening, as well as organize classes that meet needs of modern foreign students.

The Effects of Group Therapy on the Language Performance of Aphasics: 4 Cases (그룹치료가 실어증자들의 언어수행력에 미치는 영향: 사례연구)

  • Lee, Ok-Bun;Kwon, Young-Ju;Jeong, Ok-Ran
    • Speech Sciences
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.113-120
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    • 2002
  • The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of group therapy on the language performance of aphasic patients. Four aphasic subjects participated in group therapy. Their aphasic types were TCMA (transcortical motor aphasia), conduction, anomie, and Broca's aphasia. The focus of the therapy was to stimulate cooperative learning skills. For this purpose, categorization tasks, semantic association tasks, convergent thinking, and divergent thinking tasks were employed. The results showed that all of the aphasic subjects demonstrated some improvement in writing ability, categorization ability, and speaking ability in sentences.

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A Meta-study of Extensive English Reading Researches

  • Kim, Jeong-Ryeol
    • English Language & Literature Teaching
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.85-106
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    • 2012
  • This paper examines the role of extensive reading in foreign language learning classrooms. The effects of extensive reading are shown both positive and negative as in Krashen (1999) and Spada (1997), particularly researches done in classroom setting. Extensive reading is hard to implement in foreign language classrooms due to the stringent school curricula despite its benefits in cognitive and affective domain of learners. This study searched 21 papers from research database on extensive reading researches in a classroom setting and synthesized 55 cognitive effects and 11 affective effects from these papers under investigation in a manner of quantifying their means and standard deviations to derive generalizations. Research synthesis in this manner has secured its own status of scientific investigation by providing secondary researchers with replicable methods that produce verifiable findings. The syntheses of researches show that extensive reading is effective in both literacy skills and other language skills such as listening and writing. It also shows positive effects across different age groups, but the effect sizes are different in that elementary and adults gained more positive effects than middle and high school students.

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Design of Learning Process with Code Reconstruction Principle for Non-computer Majors

  • Hye-Wuk, Jung
    • International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.175-180
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    • 2022
  • To develop computational thinking skills, university students are learning how to solve problems with algorithms, program commands and grammar, and program writing. Because non-computer majors have difficulty with computer programming-related content, they need a learning method to acquire coding knowledge from the process of understanding, interpreting, changing, and improving source codes by themselves. This study explored clone coding, refactoring coding, and coding methods using reconstruction tools, which are practical and effective learning methods for improving coding skills for students who are accustomed to coding. A coding learning process with the code reconstruction principle was designed to help non-computer majors use it to understand coding technology and develop their problem-solving ability and applied the coding technology learning method used in programmer education.

Effect of Interactive Metronome Training on Postural Control and Hand Writing Performance of Children With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): Single Subject Research (상호작용식 메트로놈(Interactive Metronome) 훈련이 주의력결핍 과잉행동장애 아동의 자세조절과 글씨쓰기 수행에 미치는 영향: 단일사례연구)

  • Park, Min-Kyoung;Kim, Hee
    • The Journal of Korean Academy of Sensory Integration
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.14-24
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    • 2018
  • Objective : The purpose of this study was to identify the effect of Interactive Metronome (IM) training on postural control and hand writing performance of children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Methods : Participant was a third grade elementary school student diagnosed with ADHD. ABA design was used and a total of 30 sessions were held for 3 sessions every week for a total of 10 weeks. In the intervention period, IM training was conducted for 40~50 minutes before intervention for writing, and the writing task was carried out. We evaluated the handwriting legibility and speed. Before baseline A and within a month after A' phase, Clinical Observation of Motor and Postural Skills (COMPS) was evaluated to examine the changes in postural control of the student. Results : After the IM intervention, the postural control of the student improved in the score of slow movement, finger-nose touching, and asymmetrical tonic neck reflex. The handwriting legibility and speed has also tended to increase during the intervention period, but it has not significantly changed. Conclusion : This study could be used as an evidence that the IM training aimed at postural control and handwriting ability could enhance the ability to improve postural control and thereby provide fundamental knowledge for future studies.

Impact of Peer Assessment Activities on High School Student's Argumentation in Argument-Based Inquiry (논의 기반 탐구 과학수업에서 동료평가 활동이 고등학생의 논의에 미치는 영향)

  • Lee, Seonwoo;Bak, Deokchan;Nam, Jeonghee
    • Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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    • v.35 no.3
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    • pp.353-361
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    • 2015
  • This study focused on the use of peer assessment activities to investigate its the impact on students' argumentation skills in argument-based inquiry. The participants of the study were 106 10th grade students (four classes). Two classes were assigned to the experimental group, and the other two classes were assigned to the comparative group. The experimental group was taught argument-based inquiry through the application of peer assessment activities. The comparative group was taught argument-based inquiry without peer assessments. At the claim and evidence stage, students were asked to evaluate whether peers' claims fit with the evidence and whether peers' explanation of the evidences validity was sufficient. The quality of argumentation used in the students' writing was different in each group. According to the analysis of the summary writing test, the results showed that the experimental group had a significantly higher mean score than the comparative group in argumentation components, including evidence and warrant/backing. In addition, the experimental group used better multimodal representation including explanation of evidence than the comparative group. The findings showed that argument-based inquiry applying peer assessment activities had an effect on the argumentation skills in students' writing.

An analysis and teaching of cultural contents in the first-grade High School English textbooks (고등학교 1학년 교과서에 나타난 문화소재 분석과 지도방안)

  • Im, Byung-Bin;Gu, So-Young
    • English Language & Literature Teaching
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.155-177
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    • 2005
  • In the EFL context, Korean students don't have enough opportunities to directly experience the target culture, prompting the need to offer some well-organized culture education in class. The goals of this study are to analyze how many cultural contents are reflected in High School English textbooks and to suggest an implication for cultural learning. These textbooks were carefully examined, focusing on the cultural contents, by four categories: 'cultural skill section', 'cultural patterns', 'related language skills', and 'target countries'. The results of the analysis were like the following: First, although many of the textbooks are dealing with the culture skill sections, their contents were still wanting consistency and were small in quantity. Second, as for the cultural patterns, the pages dealing with behavioral culture were 43%, spiritual culture, 35.7%, material culture, 21.3%. Third, as for the related language skills, the cultural contents in the textbooks were organized in the order of listening, reading, speaking, writing, and cultural skill sections. Since it is impossible to separate language skills from culture, we suggest that the aspects of target culture should be incorporated in various forms into the learning situations. Fourth, as for the issue of target countries, the contents about the general or whole English culture were insufficient. So we suggest that English textbooks should play an essential role in providing students with various cultural information about various English speaking countries.

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A Convergence Study on the Effects of Writing Reflection Journal with Teaching Feedback on Learning Motivation, Learning Attitude, and Academic Self-Efficacy of Nursing Students (교수피드백을 적용한 성찰일지 작성이 간호대학생의 학습동기, 학습태도 및 학업적 자기효능감에 미치는 효과에 대한 융합 연구)

  • Kim, Jin-Young;Kim, Eun-Jung
    • Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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    • v.10 no.12
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    • pp.503-510
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    • 2019
  • This study aimed to analyze the effects of nursing students' learning motivation, learning attitude and academic self-efficacy on their application of reflective journal with teaching feedback. For this retrospective comparative study data from 190 undergraduate students in the health assessment skills course from 2018 to 2019. The collected data were analyzed by chi-square test, independent t-test, Ancova. After writing reflection journal with teaching feedback showed significant difference in learning motivation(t=2.10, p=.037) and learning attitude (t= 4.54, p=.034) compared to writing reflection journal without teaching feedback. However, no significant difference was found between reflection journal with teaching feedback and reflection journal without teaching feedback. These results suggest writing reflection with teaching feedback is an effective strategy for improving learning motivation and learning attitude.