• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.135-142
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• 2017

The Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) announced the TIMSS 2015 results at the end of 2016. In this research, we analyzed the relationship between Korean eighth grade students' attitude toward science and science achievement, trends in students' attitude toward science based on common items used in three to four cycles of TIMSS, and trends across grades in students' attitude toward science. According to the results, Korean eighth grade students showed the lowest level of confidence with science, interest in learning science, and valuing science among the 15 top performing countries as well as all the participant countries. In addition, according to the analysis result of common items, Korean students' confidence with science and interest in learning science have decreased, whereas students' valuing science with instrumental values has increased between TIMSS 2011 and TIMSS 2015. According to trends across grades, the cohort of students, assessed at the fourth grade in TIMSS 2011 and moved to the eighth grade four years later in 2015, decreased in their confidence with science and interest in learning science. Discussed in the conclusion are further studies and ways to improve science teaching and learning to improve students' attitude toward science.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.19 no.12
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• pp.872-877
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• 2018

STEAM is an acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics. It is considered important to equip students with a creative thinking ability and the core competences required in future society, helping them devise new ideas emerging from branches of study. This study is about the convergence of instructional design in private finance for the life sciences, which aims to foster talent through problem-based learning (PBL). Skills like collaboration, creativity, critical thinking, and problem solving are part of any STEAM PBL, and are needed for students to be effective. STEAM projects give students a chance to problem-solve in unique ways, because they are forced to use a variety of methods to solve problems that pop up during these types of activities. The results of this study are as follows. First is the structured process of convergence lessons. Second is the convergence lesson process. Third is the development of problems in the introduction of private finance and the life sciences for a convergence lesson at Dornod University. Learning motivation shows the following results: understanding of learning content (66.6%), effectiveness (63.3%), self-directed learning (59.9%), motivation (63.2%), and confidence (63.3%). To make an effective model, studies applying this instructional design are to be implemented.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.39-62
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• 2013

On the standards or elements of teaching evaluation, the Korea Institute of Curriculum and Evaluation(KICE) has carried out the following research such as : 1) development of the standards on teaching evaluation between 2004 and 2006, and 2) investigation on the elements of Teacher Knowledge. The purposes of development of evaluation standards for mathematics teaching through those studies were to improve not only mathematics teachers' professionalism but also their own teaching methods or strategies. In this study, the standards were revised and modified by analyzing the results of those studies focused on the knowledge of subject matter knowledge, knowledge of learners' understanding, teaching and learning methods and assessments, and teaching contexts. For this purpose, according to those evaluation domains of each teacher knowledge, elements on teaching evaluation focused on the teacher's knowledge were established using the instructional evaluation framework, which is developed in this study, including the four areas of knowledge obtaining, instructional planning, instructional implementation, and instructional reflection. In this study, 1st and 2nd pilot studies was accomplished for revising evaluation standards and as a result, the procedure for implementing mathematics teaching using evaluation standards was changed to evaluate teachers own teaching using the standards focused on instructional reflection and according to the degree of satisfaction on reflecting their own teaching, standards on knowledge obtaining, instructional planning, instructional implementation would be utilized. Teacher survey is accomplished two times, by the subject of seven teachers. According ot the result of the first teacher questionnaire which was consisted of the essay type of questions on the degree of understanding the content of standards, the evaluation standards were revised. According ot the result of the second teacher questionnaire which was consisted of the essay type of questions on the application of standards, the evaluation standards were revised finally and the way of how to use the standards efficiently was suggested.

• Journal of Elementary Mathematics Education in Korea
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.321-350
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• 2013

The purpose of this study to analysis of problem posing in 5th and 6th grade mathematics textbooks and to comprehend errors in the problem posing activity of 6th graders in elementary school. For solving the research problems, problem posing contents were extracted from mathematics textbooks and practice books for the 5th and 6th grade of elementary school in the 2007 revised national curriculum, and they were analyzed, according to each grade, domain and type. Based on the analysis results, 10 problem posing questions which were extracted and developed, were modified and supplemented through a pre-examination, and a questionnaire that problem posing questions are evenly distributed, according to each grade, domain and type, was produced. This examination was conducted with 129 6th graders, and types of error in problem posing were analyzed using collected data. The implications from the research results are as follows. First, it was found that there was a big numerical difference of problem posing questions in the 5th and 6th grade, and problem posing questions weren't properly suggested in even some domains and types, because the serious concentration in each grade, type and domain. Therefore, textbooks to be developed in the future would need to suggest more various and systematic of problem posing teaching learning activity for each domain and type. Second, the 'error resulting from the lack of information' occurred the most in the problems that 6th graders posed, followed by the 'error in the understanding of problems', 'technical errors', 'logical errors' and 'others'. This implies that a majority of students missed conditions necessary for problem solving, because they have been used to finding answers to given questions only. For such reason, there should be an environment in which students can pose problems by themselves, breaking from the way of learning to only solve given problems.

• 한국정보교육학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.01a
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• pp.289-294
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• 2006

지금 세계는 지식 정보화의 물결에 휩싸여 있다. 인터넷의 급속한 보급으로 인하여 사람들은 자신들이 원하는 정보를 쉽게 구할 수 있게 되었으며 이러한 정보를 누가 생산하고 분배하느냐에 따라서 국가경제에 미치는 영향도 점점 커지고 있다. 이러한 사회적인 흐름은 교육에도 영향을 미치게 되었다. 서로의 정보 공유가 용이하고 시 공간의 구애를 받지 않으며 한 번에 많은 사람들이 동시에 접속할 수 있는 웹의 특성상 교육에 미치는 영향도 많을 것이다. 특히 초등학교에서 수학 교육은 교구를 이용하거나 원리를 이해하는 면에서 교과서만을 가지고는 많은 어려움이 따른다. 특히 도형 단원에서는 아동들이 직접 도형을 가지고 조작할 수 있는 환경이 중요한 데 이를 웹이 어느 정도 보안할 수 있는 것이다. 이에 본문에서는 초등학교 수학과 도형단원의 학습 자료를 개발하여 아동들의 학업성취도를 향상시킬 수 있는 프로그램을 설계하였다.

• World Technopolis Review
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.19-29
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• 2016

The innovation ecosystem provides benefits and challenges for multiple institutional actors like universities, industry, government, NGOs, and private funding agencies, as well as individuals in a rapidly evolving and dynamic environment. First, we describe the changing role of universities-whereby, the support of innovation and entrepreneurship is developing into a core mission of universities. We then describe strategies within the United States and globally to help students learn about innovation and entrepreneurship. Finally, we explore the benefits and challenges of technological innovation for economic development, emphasizing how such development relates to the global problem of underprivileged communities, both in developed and developing countries, and the special concerns of economic development for developing countries.

• 한국정보교육학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.08a
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• pp.294-299
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• 2007

도형의 합동은 도형의 대칭이나 도형그리기를 배우는 데에 기본이 되며, 도형의 성질을 이해하고 모양을 그리는 능력을 기르게 할 수 있다. 도형의 합동을 공부해야 일상 생활에서 필요로 하는 디자인이나 아름다운 예술 작품에 대한 소양을 가질 수 있다. 하지만 합동 학습을 할 때에 개념을 형성하는데 드는 시간보다 종이를 자르고 도형의 본을 뜨는 행동과 같은 구체적 조작 시간이 많이 소요되기 때문에 학생들 간의 상호작용은 물론 교사와 학생들과의 상호작용 시간도 기대하기 어렵다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 초등학교 학생들에게 학습효과를 높일 수 있도록 상호작용 이론을 합동학습에 적용하여 학습자들이 합동의 개념을 쉽게 이해할 수 있도록 하였고 동시에 동시적 비동시적 의사소통이 가능한 웹상에서 실시하는 합동학습 코스웨어를 개발하고 적용하였다.

• The Mathematical Education
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• v.44 no.1 s.108
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• pp.143-152
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• 2005

The purpose of this study is to investigate responses or phenomena shown by the students in the process of manipulative activities in order to use manipulatives effectively in the elementary school geometry classes. The fualitative study used for this research analyzed phenomena in the process of learning programs offered to students. The five participants of this research were selected from the third graders at C Elementary School in Seoul city. The researcher recorded all the activities of students, watching them thoroughly and extracting significant statements from each description. These statements were formulated by their meanings, and then those meanings were analyzed into classified themes. The results through this research are as follows: First, previous activities affected later activities positively in the conjoining case, but negatively in the disjoining case and hence it required adventurous thinking. Second, students tried various attempts for solving given problems.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.43-50
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• 2008

Multinomial logistic regression is a well known multiclass classification method in the field of statistical learning. More recently, the development of sparse multinomial logistic regression model has found application in microarray classification, where explicit identification of the most informative observations is of value. In this paper, we propose a sparse multinomial kernel logistic regression model, in which the sparsity arises from the use of a Laplacian prior and a fast exact algorithm is derived by employing a bound optimization approach. Experimental results are then presented to indicate the performance of the proposed procedure.

• Korean Journal of Human Ecology
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.629-647
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• 2012

This study explored what Korean college students, especially preservice teacher in early childhood education, experienced and how they constructed the meanings of experiences about their subject- matter course (early childhood mathematics education) taught in English. One cohort- 20 senior students- majoring in early childhood education in a 4-year university was participated in this study. Using action research method and narrative research method, data were analyzed. The findings were as follows: 1) preservice teacher experienced some difficulties to construrct professional knowledge through English. 2) They challenged to overcome these difficulties through active participation. 3) They got supports from instructor and peer group. 4) They accomplished the course with self-satisfaction. 5) They experienced the conflicts between social requirements and personal needs.