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A Comparative Analysis on Curriculum of iSchools and L-School in North America (북미지역 iSchool 대학과 L-School의 교육과정 비교분석)

  • Kim, Heesop;Nam, Kwon Hee;Kang, Bora
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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    • v.47 no.4
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    • pp.295-314
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    • 2013
  • The purpose of this study is to analyze the curriculum of iSchools in North America. To achieve the aim of the study 17 iSchools and the same number of L-Schools were chosen from the same regional area. Data were collected mainly through each of their official websites and email inquiry. The graduate courses were classified into 8 domains judging by its title, and conducted t-test for a comparative analysis with L-School curriculum using SPSS 19.0. It is found that 'Information Studies', 'Practicum and Study', and 'Library and Information Center Management' domains were dominant in iSchool curriculum. In the comparative analysis, 'Study in Library and Information Science' domain showed lower percentage, whereas 'Information Studies', 'Library and Information Center Management', 'Practicum and Study' domains showed higher percentage than the L-School curriculum.

A Comparative Study on the Curriculum on Electricity and Magnetism between in Korean and in (캐나다 Ontario주와 우리나라 초등학교의 전기, 자기 관련 교육 과정의 비교 연구)

  • Han, Moo-Hyun;Kim, Jong-Seong
    • Journal of Korean Elementary Science Education
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    • v.24 no.5
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    • pp.620-626
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    • 2005
  • In this study, we conducted a comparative study to investigate the curriculums on electricity and magnetism between in Korean and in Ontario elementary schools in Canada with respect to connectivity and difference among course materials with grades. We compared textbooks that contain the contents about electricity and magnetism, and connectivity in curriculums that were relevant to the science content system in each country. We report the following differences in the curriculums on electricity and magnetism in each country. First, it turns out that science is taught from the first grade in Ontario, while it is taught from the third grade in Korea. Second, Ontario covers electricity and magnetism only in science curriculum, while Korea covers the same topics both in the science and practical arts curriculum. Third, while the curriculum in Korea introduces 'a magnet' in the third grade, 'electricity' in the fourth and the fifth grade, and 'an electromagnet' in the sixth grade, while the curriculum in Ontario covers the concept of energy from the first grade. As the grades go up, the contents of electricity and magnetism tend to be more deepen. It also emphasizes enhancing students' ability that they can communicate what they learn about technology with others, and that they can apply their knowledge to other fields as well. Based on this study of the Ontario curriculum, we suggest that it is necessary for us to n Science curriculum from the first grade, so that the students can learn science from the early grade, without a need to run another subject, like practical arts. We also found that the Korean curriculum has an interesting structure for the young students to learn to apply their knowledge to the real life immediately, based on an idea that the topic of 'Manipulating the electric appliances' in practical arts curriculum moves to the Science.

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Educational Objectives in Computing Education: A Comparative Analysis

  • An, Sangjin;Lee, Youngjun
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.181-189
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    • 2016
  • This study examined three elementary school computing curriculum - the CSTA K-12 computer science standards, the computing programme of the national curriculum in England, and the 2015 national curriculum in Korea - focusing on the educational objectives with the perspective of the revision of Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives. The CSTA K-12 computer science standards mainly addressed applying procedural knowledge and using digital technology is the main theme. The computing programme in England concentrated on understanding factual and conceptual knowledge of computer science, such as algorithms. The 2015 national curriculum also addressed applying procedural knowledge, but the main focus is making softwares and robots. The findings of this comparative analysis suggest that it is needed to set up concrete educational objectives for lower grade and make them related to the secondary education to make more coherent elementary-level learning objectives. And elementary-level computing learning objectives are needed to be organized with the perspective of knowledge and cognitive process level.

A Comparative Study on High School Chemistry Curriculum in Korea and Japan (한국과 일본의 고등학교 화학교육과정 비교연구)

  • Kong, Young-Tae;Lim, Jai-Hang;Moon, Sung-Bae;Nam, Jeong-Hee
    • Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.48 no.1
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    • pp.66-76
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    • 2004
  • This study is to compare and analyse the high school chemistry curriculum in Korea and Japan from the viewpoint of the structure, objectives, contents, teaching-learning method, and assessment plans. From the comparative analysis, we found some common and different aspects. The suggestive ideas which is useful for study of Korean science curriculum were deduced, such as more expansion of selective subjects and enhancing the guidance, more flexible teaching methods, enhancing the individualized instruction plans suitable to each student's condition, careful selection of educational contents and enhancing the base and foundation, and transition period.

Comparative Analysis for Present Curriculum of Libbrary and Information Science of Junior College (현행 전문대학 문헌정보학과 교과과정의 비교분석)

  • 소시중
    • Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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    • v.32 no.4
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    • pp.171-196
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    • 2001
  • This Study is Compared and analyzed for the curriculum of department of Library and Information Science of Junior college. For two purpose, A Literature study was done with new knowledge in Library and Curriculum of domestic Junior College were compared and analyzed in order to derive necommendable common subjects. Therefore curriculum of department Library and Information Science of Junior College in gradually changing forseed on conventional subject.

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A study on content curriculum mapping of Korea in the OECD education 2030 project: Focused on mathematics (OECD Education 2030 교육과정 내용 맵핑 본검사 참여 연구 : 수학과를 중심으로)

  • Cho, Seongmin;Lee, Mee-Kyeong
    • The Mathematical Education
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    • v.58 no.4
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    • pp.507-518
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    • 2019
  • The OECD launched the Education 2030 project to develop a learning framework and to conduct the international comparative study on curriculum. As a part of the OECD international curriculum analysis, Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation(KICE) conducted a main study of Curriculum Content Mapping (hereafter, CCM) in the 7 learning areas/subject areas such as national languages, mathematics, humanities/social sciences, natural science, physical education/health, arts, and technologies. The CCM study aimed to identify how the competencies on CCM framework were reflected in the Korea curriculum. For this purpose, KICE identified the competencies on CCM framework, revised the coding framework, and undertook the mapping process. In this study, we gathered the CCM data as an evidence of how competencies on CCM framework were embedded in the 2015 revised mathematics curriculum. For this purpose, experts in mathematics education undertook the mapping process, we summarized the results of CCM main study in mathematics. As the results, numeracy, critical thinking, problem solving, anticipation, action, reflection were perfectly embedded in the 2015 revised mathematics curriculum. the competencies on CCM framework were embedded in the 2015 revised mathematics curriculum, and but literacy, physical/health literacy, trust, learning to learn, reconciling tension and dilemmas, literacy for sustainable development, financial literacy, and entrepreneurship/enterprising were not clearly related to mathematics curriculum. The mapping results should help the Korea Ministry of Education and KICE for preparing the future curriculum revision and development.

A Comparative Study of Illustration on the Grade 5 and 6 Science Textbook in Elementary School between the 2007 Curriculum and 2009 Revised Curriculum (2007과 2009 개정 교육과정의 초등학교 5, 6학년 과학 교과서 삽화 비교 연구)

  • KIM, Yong-Gwon
    • Journal of Fisheries and Marine Sciences Education
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    • v.29 no.1
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    • pp.80-89
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    • 2017
  • The purpose of this research is to consider whether current science textbook is designed to let children properly obtain scientific knowledge through research study and at the same time provide an implication to help development of science textbook for the 2015 revised curriculum through comparing and analyzing of illustration in science textbooks of grade 5 and 6 published based on the 2007 curriculum and on the 2009 revised curriculum. The conclusion of comparison and analysis on illustration of the grade 5 and 6 science textbooks in the 2007 curriculum and the 2009 revised curriculum as follows. First, according to the comparison and analysis result on in the textbook, science textbook of year 2009 revised for grade 5 and 6 had 1.65 illustration per page and for the 2007 curriculum, it had 1.98 illustrations per page having 0.83 times more illustrations than that of the previous one. Second, the types of illustrations both textbooks had a higher ratio of pictures that are very detailed and objective which can identify scientific facts. In terms of role of illustration, illustrations providing various and realistic data related to the learning for students to have enough scientific experiences accounted for the most ratios.

A Comparative Analysis of the Science Curriculums and Textbooks of Middle School in South and North Korea (남.북한 중학교 과학과 교육과정 및 교과서 비교 분석)

  • Park, Kwang-Seo;Jeong, Eun-Ju;Yang, Il-Ho;Park, Kuk-Tae
    • Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.481-498
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    • 2004
  • The purpose of this study was to compare and analyse the subject organization and teaching units of middle school science curriculums and science textbooks, by studying the organization of subject matter and content scope and level of middle school science subject in South and North Korea. As a result of this study, the composition, scope, and level of content between middle school science textbooks in South and North Korea were similar. However, the study found that science education objectives, separated science curriculum subject organization, economical efficiency weighted format and organization of science subject matter, result-centered experiments, the enlightenment of Kim Ilsung and his son in North Korea science education were very far from the desirable direction of science education. Therefore, the view on level-based curriculum and organization of the science curriculum should be integrated, and preparation of student-centered organization of textbooks and expansion of science-technology-society content is needed before unification. And also, the united Korea science curriculum shouldn't simply compromise or neutralize between middle school science curriculum in South and North Korea. They should make a future-oriented plan for information and globalism society.

A Comparative Analysis of Achievement Standards of the 2007 & 2009 Revised Elementary Science Curriculum with Next Generation Science Standards in US based on Bloom's Revised Taxonomy (Bloom의 신교육목표분류체계에 기초한 2007 및 2009 개정 초등학교 과학과 교육과정과 미국의 차세대 과학 표준(Next Generation Science Standards)의 성취기준 비교 분석)

  • Choi, Jung In;Paik, Seoung Hye
    • Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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    • v.35 no.2
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    • pp.277-288
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    • 2015
  • The purpose of this study is to find the point for improvement through the comparative analysis of the 2007 & 2009 revised science curriculum, and the NGSS of the United States with Bloom's revised taxonomy. The results of the analysis confirmed that the revised curriculum in 2009 compared to the revised curriculum in 2007 has expanded the type of cognitive process and knowledge, which promote a higher level thinking. However, the revised curriculum in 2009 has been biased to the type of specific cognitive process and knowledge in cognitive process dimension and knowledge dimension as compared to the NGSS of the United States. In the revised curriculum in 2009, the type of cognitive process such as 'analyze,' 'evaluate,' 'create,' and the type of knowledge such as 'meta-cognitive knowledge' have been treated inattentively. In addition, through comparative analysis, it was identified that the type of cognitive process and knowledge that were neglected in achievement standards were not dealt with in the learning objective of teachers' guides, either. The revised curriculum should consist of achievement standards in comparison to the previous curriculum to reflect better the goals of science education. Therefore, it is necessary to create an achievement standards including various types of cognitive processes and knowledge by improving the method of statement of achievement standards of science curriculum.

The Comparative Analysis of the Content and illustration in the 6th and 7th National Curriculum 3rd and 4th Grade Primary Science Textbooks (제 6차와 제 7차 초등학교 3, 4학년 과학 교과서의 내용과 삽화의 비교ㆍ분석)

  • 백남권;서승조;조태호;김성규;박강은;이경화
    • Journal of Korean Elementary Science Education
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.61-70
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    • 2002
  • The purpose of this study was to examine whether or not they have been revised corresponding to the purpose of revision by making a comparative analysis of the content and illustration in the 6th and 7th primary science textbooks. The analysis of content was composed of knowledge, inquiry process and attitude. The analysis of illustrations was composed of the kinds of illustrations and the role of illustrations. The findings of this research were as follows: First, as a result of content analysis of the primary science textbooks in the 6th and the 7th national curriculum, the ratio of inquiry process showed the highest frequency, next knowledge and lastly scientific attitude. And the 7th textbooks are greatly emphasized knowledge and science attitude. Second, as a results of the illustration analysis are as follows: There are conspicuous differences in that the illustration number of the 7th science textbooks Is about twice the illustration number of the 6th science textbooks and next, they place more weights on pictures and comics hard to discovery in the 6th science textbooks. Therefore, they have tried to induce the interests of students and heighten their understanding by supplementing the role of illustration presented as picture-centered and increasing its number presented as picture. In the results, although they have improved the problems of the 6th national curriculum a lot through the innovation including the interest induction of pupils through comics, the development of its content presentation method, the gradual change of subject number and the cultivation of curriculum according to the level of enrichment and supplementing types, the 7th science textbooks have fallen short of 6.3%, not around 30% in terms of the reduction in the 7th national curriculum. Accordingly, the 7th science textbooks also can be pointed out to have the problems of too much amount of studying compared to the time per week like the 6th science textbooks.

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