• Journal of Korean Elementary Science Education
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• v.30 no.3
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• pp.330-339
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• 2011

This study was to investigate effects of instruction using the history of science on elementary school students' science learning motivation. Subjects were 48 students of two groups in the 5th Grade in Bucheon City. A Experimental group of 24 was instructed 20 lessons in Unit 1~7 using the history of science for a 11-week period. In this study, the instructional contents were selected by stories about scientists, discoveries or anecdotes about natural phenomena and related learning topics in national science curriculum. And they are presented by writings with pictures, cartoons, PPT materials and a script. Students play various learning activities such as exchanging opinions after reading instructional content, making a book or a newspaper, playing in a drama and representing by picture. A control group of 24 was instructed by traditional teaching methods in same period. To compare difference of instruction effects of the two groups, the score of pre-test and post-test were both estimated by t-test. The results of the study were as follows. Students of experimental group showed statistically a more significant increase in the science learning motivation than control group students (p<.05). Each of attention (A), relevance (R), satisfaction (S) sub-elements of learning motivation were higher in the experimental group and it was showed the instruction using the history of science was effective in improving of science learning motivation.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.471-480
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• 2004

Reading ability has been widely considered as one of the basic skills that every student should be conversant with because higher level of thinking power can be acquired through reading. Reading education allows students to build correct way of thinking as well as foster critical thinking ability. However, it can be observed that reading education has not been well addressed accordingly in schools mainly because teachers have only limited amount of time and ability to cope with. In this paper, we developed a Web-based peer evaluation system for improving reading and writing ability so that students are allowed to exchange ideas freely on the Web after reading books as well as evaluate other students' writings, which would facilitate reflective thinking through the computer-mediated communication activities. Students become graders of other students' writings so that they are exposed to different opinions and ideas through which deeper thoughts can be obtained. The learner-centered learning activity instead of teacher-centered may benefit students as well as teachers and the system implementing this idea shows that both students' attitudes and preferences were improved as the result of applying the system to a local elementary school.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.469-481
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• 2011

The purpose of this study was to find the recognition and opinions of gifted students, as well as their parents and teachers, on applying the artistic components to current educational programs for high ability students, gifted in mathematics and/or sciences. Questionnaires were distributed to 84 gifted students, 59 parents, and 23 teachers in elementary schools in Seoul Metropolitan area. Findings of this study include: (a) More than 1/4 of gifted students in mathematics or sciences reported that they are talented in both math/science and arts, (b) most of students, parents, and teachers believe that arts education is useful for cultivating academic talents of gifted students, (c) gifted students and their parents prefer 'Science and Arts School for the Gifted' to 'Science School for the Gifted', if both options are available.

• Journal of Science Education
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• v.38 no.1
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• pp.1-14
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• 2014

This study aims to investigate the opinions of students who joined the Jeju Scientific Research Academy, a scientific research program with a mentoring system. The 50 middle school students and 50 high school students in the study were chosen as participants after being judged on their research plans. According to the study, students became more confident in research activities and could have a new point of view on research through interaction with a mentor. They were also very interested in the scientific research program of the Jeju Scientific Research Academy and found it helpful to understand the scientific concepts. Therefore the study shows it is necessary to consider actively the introduction of the mentoring system for the scientific research program. The follow-up study should be done to determine which factors influence on the inquiring minds and the understanding of scientific concepts of the students during the experience of the program.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.47 no.3
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• pp.187-211
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• 2016

The present study investigates the seventh and the eighth graders' perception of Free Learning Semester Programs offered by libraries by developing a survey questionnaire on students' needs for Free Learning Semester Programs of Libraries. The skills that middle school students want to improve in Free Learning Semesters are career exploration skills, and the type of Free Learning Semester that is most intensively implemented is career exploration activities. Programs are often offered in the form of experiential classes. Regarding the activities that the students want to participate during Free Learning Semester, the most preferred activities included field experience activity in the career exploration domain, cooking class in the student choice program, smartphone app development in club activities, design activity in the art domain, the badminton in the physical education domain, and using iPad in the information use skills. In addition, among the library programs in coordination with Free Learning Semester, the students liked the occupational experience program most. Future studies need to include the development and implementation of Free Learning Semester Programs based on students' opinions, and investigate their satisfaction with the Free Learning Semester Programs offered by libraries.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.33-42
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• 2013

Various methods of Smart education were tested on students in Elementary and Middle schools, as Smart learning expands. In this paper, we analyzed a Smart r- Learning-teaching model that utilizes Bluetooth and Class SNS, for students. We focused on all aspects that students found easy to program, on controlling the Bluetooth-connected robot with a smartphone, as well as on a diversity of opinions related to using Class SNS in the robot class without time constraints. Subsequently, we attempted to apply the developed a Smart r-Learning program to the classes of students, We undertook a t-test for students to find out whether it helped them enhance their creative thinking and investigated their satisfaction with the class. As a result, the study showed that students' satisfaction with a Smart r-Learning class is exceptionally high, at 96%, and students' creative thinking and programming skills in order to control improved markedly.

• Journal of Multimedia Information System
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.51-60
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• 2022

This paper raised the need to examine how the online education environment triggered by COVID-19 and the smart learning environment can be established in consideration of the improvement of education and learning through learning analysis. Many studies are being conducted in Korea, and the Ministry of Education is continuously striving to build a smart school by promoting strategies for promoting smart education on the way to a talent powerhouse. Nevertheless, there is no unified definition of smart learning, and it can be seen as customized (individualized) learning using smart devices. However, most of the discussions on the construction of smart schools so far have limitations in that they are limited to physical spaces. Accordingly, the opinions of teachers and learners were not sufficiently reflected in the establishment of the facility. This study intends to study smart learning in various departments. In addition, the subjects students in charge of the co-researcher of this study were analyzed. The total number of subjects was 951, and 434 responded to this study survey. In addition, students were well accepting the online environment, and in the future, regardless of COVID-19, research will be presented to improve mutual communication between professors and students in smart learning.

• The Research Journal of the Costume Culture
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.166-182
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• 2000

In this study, we inquire what is the rules which is implicitly used by the adolescent group about bullying phenomenon. We inquire how to interpret the phenomenon from the adolescents'viewpoint and their opinions of how appearance and clothing determine the extent of bullying. After we discuss this problem, we propose an indirect solution to the cause of bullying. We selected a middle school boy by reason that boys have been more experienced than others according to a previous study and are at a keen adolescent stage of development. Moreover, 'ichime'phenomenon is seriously reported at a middle school student stage in the case of Japan. The purpose of the study was to analyze the following : 1. Research on an actual case of bullying in a middle school student. 2. the adolescents'viewpoint on characteristics of school bullying. 3. The cause of violence and injury from school bullying. 4. How appearance and clothing affect bullying. 5. The preference and uses of clothing worn by adolescents. The process of this study brought a substantially between quantitative and qualitative research. Theses questionnaires were administered to 320 middle school students in Seoul from the 14/sup th/ to the 25/sup th/ of June. The data totaled up to 280 subjects, which consist 121 male students and 159 female students except for invalid data.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Educational Facilities
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.40-48
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• 1998

A Considerable number of middle and high schools has an educational program that allows the students to move from one class to another according to their academic achievements. It is, however, performed in existing classrooms with uniform pattern, corresponding to the launch of the 7th curriculum (scheduled to practice in 2000). This research is to investigate the current situation of IILA and to collect the teachers opinions and their demands regarding spatial change to accommodate IILA effectively. This research is also to acquire a fundamental data to set up a prototype for designing a school building for IILA in future. The research process includes surveying the current circumstances of IILA in 136 middle and high schools in Seoul and Pusan, and performing interviews for 9 schools. The research results revealed that there was lack of classrooms to comply IILA in most cases and inconvenience resulted in moving from class to class. It also showed that majority of students experienced unhandy due to limited lockers for the personal belongings. It is also found that the IILA was not a practice for offering various teaching methods but simply an aspect of grouping students based upon their academic achievements.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.275-284
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• 2018

The purpose of this study is to improve career awareness of students by using visual thinking and SNS. In addition, parents' interest about their children 's career was increased, and career guidance suitable for the development stage of elementary school students' education was searched to find out the course appropriate for their aptitude and ability. The results of the comparative study showed that the experimental group had a significant effect on the opinions and attitudes toward career, information search and rational decision making, and knowledge on occupation. Research shows that career-based education using visual thinking and SNS has a positive effect of encouraging students' career awareness and positive attitude toward career search.