• The Mathematical Education
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• v.40 no.2
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• pp.241-252
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• 2001

Many high school students are having difficulties for studying advanced mathematics concepts. It is more complicated than in junior high school and they are losing interest and confidence. In this paper, advanced mathematics concepts are not just basic concepts such as natural numbers, fractions or figures that can be learned through life experience but concepts that are including variables, functions, sets, tangents and limits are more abstract and formal. For the students to understand these ideas is too heavy a burden and so many of the students concentrate their efforts on just memorizing and not understanding. It is necessary to search for a meaningful method of teaching for advanced mathematics that covers deductive methods and symbols. High school teachers are always asking themselves the following question, “How do we help the students to understand the concept clearly and instruct it in a meaningful way?” As a solution we propose the followings : I. To ensure they have the right understanding of concept image involved in the concept definition. II. Put emphasis on the process of making mental representations and the role of intuition. III. To instruct students and understand them as having many chance of the instructional conversation. In conclusion, we studied the meaningful method of teaching with the theory of Ausubel related to the above proposed methods. To understand advanced mathematics concepts correctly, the mutual understanding of both teachers and students is necessary.

• Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.305-325
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• 2004

This study is on the teaching-learning of parameter concept in secondary school mathematics. In our school mathematics curriculum, parameter concept is explicitly presented at high school mathematics textbook. But student have difficulty in understanding parameter concept because this concept is implicitly used in the textbook from 7-grade mathematics. Moreover, it is true that mathematics teacher give a little attention to student's understanding of parameter con- cept. In this study, we analyzed concept definition of parameter and the extension of parameter on the basis of preceding research, our mathematical curriculum, mathematical dictionaries. After that, we concluded that parameter is explicitly called in t where x= f(t), y= g(t) and parameter is implicitly treated in the learning of relation between quantities in our mathematical curriculum. We pointed to the importance of parameter concept in the successful learning of school algebra. Specially, when the level of algebra is in the learning of relation between quantities, parameter is the key concept for understanding and representing of families of equations or functions. In mathematics class, students have opportunity to reflect that what the role of each variable(parameter, dependent variable, independent variable etc.) is, and where the information which determines it comes from. It is for mathematical communications as well as learning school algebra. Therefore, mathematics teacher's didactical attention is more needed to student have a good concept image of parameter before they learn explicitly its concept definition.

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.49-55
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• 1980

As the society has been capitalized, the importance of money has appeared widely. And there are many problems caused from the lack of money is supposed rather a qualitative problem happened by mismanagement of money than a quantitative. The purposes of this study are to suggest the desirable direction in money management education to adolescents and to provide some basic data to resolve the juvenile delin-quency caused from lack of money. With this purposes this study dealt with the money management behavior of adolescents with reference to self-concept, which was considered one of the influential factors to the money management behavior. Questionnaires composed with the Self-concept test (developed by Dr. chung) and the Money management test (developed by Dr. Troelstrup) were distributed to 300 high school students. 180 of them was taken as data. mean score and F-ratio were applied as statistical methods. As result, significant difference in money management behavior between the groups divided by self-concept scores were found. The higher the self-concept score is, the more desirable the money management behavior is. Here we cannclude as follow; As the money management behavior of adolescents differs with reference to the self-concept, it is possible to help the adolescents 세 develop the money management by inspiring the self-concept. And money management training as a consumer education is needed by all means at home, because it has an important effect upon the identity establishment, the major developmental task in adolescence.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.683-695
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• 2002

In this study, we analyzed types of explanation on osmosis concept that were represented in chemistry and biology textbooks of high school and college. There were 5 types of explanation on osmosis concept. The types of explanation were diffusion of solvent, collision, hydration, equilibrium of concentration and screen of holes. Last two types of explanation were classified into misconceptions. The various types of explanation on osmosis concept might cause to have be a reason that students had many misconceptions and to feel difficult to learn about osmosis concept. Many of textbooks is accord to types of concept explanation and figure explanation on osmosis but some is not.

• The Mathematical Education
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• v.54 no.4
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• pp.317-334
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• 2015

In this article we study structure of the concept of creative products in mathematics using mathematical creative products. We develop MCPSS1 that improve reliability and validity of MCPSS(Creative Product Semantic Scale in Mathematics). And we search structure of the concept of creative products in mathematics using mathematical creative products focused on theoretical investigation. So we suggest structure model of the concept of creative products focused on theoretical investigation. We compare the result with preceding research using various mathematical creative products, find some difference between relations of sub-factors of structure of the concept of creative products. Our result will provide meaningful data to mathematics education researchers that want to know structure of the concept of creative products in mathematics.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.303-317
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• 2002

In this paper, we design and implement E-COIRS enabling users to query with concepts and image features used for further refining the concepts. For example, E-COIRS supports the query "retrieve images containing black home appliance to north of reception set. "The query includes two types of concepts: IS-A and composite. "home appliance"is an IS-A concept, and "reception set" is a composite concept. For evaluating such a query. E-COIRS includes three important components: a visual image indexer, thesauri and a query processor. Each pair of objects in an mage captured by the visual image indexer is converted into a triple. The triple consists of the two object identifiers (oids) and their spatial relationship. All the features of an object is referenced by its old. A composite concept is detected by the triple thesaurus and IS-A concept is recolonized by the fuzzy term thesaurus. The query processor obtains an image set by matching each triple in a user with an inverted file and CS-Tree. To support efficient storage use and fast retrieval on high-dimensional feature vectors, E-COIRS uses Cell-based Signature tree(CS-Tree). E-COIRS is a more advanced content-based image retrieval system than other systems which support only concepts or image features.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.197-209
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• 1992

The purposes of this study were 1) to investigate high school girls' overall clothing satisfac-tion and self concepts, 2) to clarify the relationship between clothing satisfaction and self concept in terms of body cathexis, school achievement and social self-esteem, and 3) to find out the social self-esteem differences among the groups related to the high and low levels of clothing satisfaction, body cathexis as well as school achievement. Body Cathexis was measured by the Secord and Jofrard's Body Cathexis Scale. School achievement and social self-esteem were assessed with the modified questionnaires based on the previous researches. Clothing satisfaction which included 3 aspects was measured by the questionnaires developed for this study. The questionnaire was administered to 464 high school students in Seoul, and the data were aiialyzed by frequency, 1-test, one-way·ANOVA and SNK test, Pearson's product moment correlation and factor analysis. The results of this study were as follows: 1) High-school girls 'body' cathexis showed low levels of mean and distribution, wheareas school achievement and social self-esteem showed high levels of those.2) There werf significant positive correlation between clothing satisfaction and all of the self concept variables. In addition, positive correlation were found among the three self concept variables. 3) Three clothing satisfaction factors were emerged and named as clothing possession, clothing selection ability and parent's clothing restriction. Clothing posses- sion and parent's clothing restriction were generally satisfied. 4) School achievement was the most influencial variable for the level of serial self-esteem. It was thought that body dissatisfac-tion would be relieved by the high clothing satisfaction.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Earth Science Education
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.352-363
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• 2016

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of elementary pre-service teacher's science concept level on teaching difficulty, teaching satisfaction, and class evaluation. This study was conducted for 117 first grade students who are studying at P National University of Education. For this study, 117 students were divided into two groups according to the science concept level, and teaching difficulty, teaching satisfaction, and class evaluation score of the two groups were analyzed. The conclusion of this study is as follows. First, the elementary pre - service teacher group with a higher level of science concept showed significantly lower teaching difficulties than those with lower levels. This shows us that if primary pre-service teachers who have high science concept level, they can teach primary school science more effectively. Second, the elementary pre - service teacher group with high level of science concept got higher score on teaching satisfaction than the group with lower level of science concept, but it did not show statistically significant. Third, the elementary pre - service teachers with higher science concept level showed significantly higher scores on class evaluation than those with lower concept.

• Journal of Science Education
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• v.34 no.1
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• pp.12-22
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• 2010

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of concept sketches on the understanding and scientific attitude in high school student's learning of weather change. Among the various fields of meteorology, especially in weather change, we often deal with the change of the spatiotemporal change in an abstract way. So making use of 'Concept Sketches'- simplified sketches which represent the main features, principles, processes and interrelationships of the learning contents using some concise explanations, signs and terms - could help the students learn the phenomena of weather change efficiently. This study's aim was to check up the effect and analyze the results of the lesson including the concept sketches. As a result of this study, concept sketches group showed significant improvement compared to the other groups in understanding of weather change and in scientific attitude, too. In students' recognition research of concept sketches showed that students found the class more interesting with improved concentration and had a chance to review through concept sketching, which is helpful for their learning. Considering the above research results, the study which applies concept sketching required the students to actively process their knowledge, and had a positive effect on the understanding of weather changes. Most of all, drawing the pictures which is a familiar activity helped the students to take part in the class eagerly.

• The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.61-76
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• 2015

In general, we have utilized the hierarchical concept tree as a crucial data structure for indexing huge amount of textual data. This paper proposes a generality rank-based method that can automatically develop hierarchical concept structures with the Wikipedia data. The goal of the method is to regard each of Wikipedia articles as a concept and to generate hierarchical relationships among concepts. In order to estimate the generality of concepts, we have devised a special ranking function that mainly uses the number of hyperlinks among Wikipedia articles. The ranking function is effectively used for computing the probabilistic subsumption among concepts, which allows to generate relatively more stable hierarchical structures. Eventually, a set of concept pairs with hierarchical relationship is visualized as a DAG (directed acyclic graph). Through the empirical analysis using the concept hierarchy of Open Directory Project, we proved that the proposed method outperforms a representative baseline method and it can automatically extract concept hierarchies with high accuracy.