• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.399-416
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• 2005

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between science teaching practices and beliefs about the nature of science. Defining teachers' beliefs as a broad construct, the researcher tried to examine not only the teachers' understanding about the nature of science, but also the effect and reflection in science teaching practices with regards to the nature of science. Guiding research questions were how the teachers' science teaching practices reflected their beliefs about the nature of science. The methodology of this study was qualitative approach that included interviews, classroom observations, and instructional materials. At an urban area of Korea, five beginning elementary teacher was chosen. The cross-case and grounded theory study design were adopted as data analysis process. The results of data analysis were checked by teachers for internal validity. This study identified the teachers' beliefs about the nature of science suggested by many researchers and revealed that these teachers' beliefs reflected a little in science teaching practices. On the occasion it was reflected, restricted merely within the narrow limits the way to teach the concepts and contents presented in science curriculum. In addition, some of the obstacles that these teachers' beliefs did not reflect the science teaching practices with regards to the nature of science were investigated in this study.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.676-684
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• 2003

eLearning can be defined as an approach to teaching and teaming that utilises Internet technologies to communicate and collaborate in an educational context. This includes technology that supplements traditional classroom training with web-based components and learning environments where the educational process is experienced online. The use of hypertext as an educational tool has a very rich history. The advent of the internet and one of its major application, the world wide web (WWW), has given a tremendous boost to the theory and practice of hypermedia systems for educational purposes. However, the web suffers from an inability to satisfy the heterogeneous needs of a large number of users. For example, web-based courses present the same static teaming material to students with widely differing knowledge of the subject. Adaptive hypermedia techniques can be used to improve the adaptability of eLearning. In this paper we report an approach to the design a unified implementation framework suitable for web-based eLearning that accommodates the three main dimensions of hypermedia adaptation: content, navigation, and presentation. The framework externalises the adaptation strategies using XML notation. The separation of the adaptation strategies from the source code of the eLearning software enables a system using the framework to quickly implement a variety of adaptation strategies. This work is a part of our more general ongoing work on the design of a framework for adaptive content delivery. parts of the framework discussed in this paper have been imulemented in a commercial eLearning engine.

• 한국수학교육학회지시리즈A:수학교육
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• 제42권2호
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• pp.203-218
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• 2003

The purpose of this study is to see what the essential characteristics are in teaching probability and statistics among various mathematical fields. we also tried to connect the study of probability and statistics education with what is needed for a science be synthetic to have its own identity as a unique research field. Since we searched for the future direction of the pedagogic study in the probability and statistics we first selected papers on probability and statistics published in (Series A), the Journal of Korea Society of Mathematical Education, and establish the following research questions. What kinds of characteristics can be found when papers on probability and statistics published in (Series A) are classified into low categories; contents of probability and statistics education, research method of the mathematics education, methods of teaming and teaching, and finally measurements and evaluation\ulcorner We classified papers into two kinds. One is related to the educational contents, consisting of the methods of learning and teaching, and of the measurement and evaluation. The other is reined to the methods of research, which is not a part of the educational curriculum but is essential for establishing the identity of mathematics education. According to the periods, papers on the curricular contents in 1960s were influenced by the New Mathematics, and papers on the curricular contents in 1980s were influenced by 'back to basic'. In 1990s, papers on methods of learning and teaching, and measurement md evaluation were increasing in number. Besides, (series A) from the Journal of Korea Society of Mathematical Education covers contents, methods of Loaming and teaching, and measurement and evaluation. And when I examined the papers on the contents of textbook of a junior high school related to the probability and statistics education and on methods of learning and teaching, 1 found that those papers occupy 1.84% in . When it comes to the methods of loaming and teaching, most of studies in (series A) are about application of concrete implement like experiment and practical application of computer programs, Through this study, I found that over-all and more active researches on probability and statistics are required and that the studies about methods of loaming and teaching must be made in diverse directions. It is needed that how students recognize probability and statistics, connection, communication and representation in probability and statistics context, too. (series A) does not have papers on methods of study. Mathematics pedagogy is a mixture of various studies - mathematical psychology, mathematical philosophy, the history of mathematics and Mathematics. So If there doesn't exist a proper method of study adequate in the situation for the mathematics education the issue of mathematics pedagogy might be taken its own place by that of other studies'. We must search for the unique method of study fur mathematics education so that mathematics pedagogy has its own identity as a study. The study concerning this aspect is needed.

• 한국지구과학회지
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.205-213
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• 2004

본 연구에서는 문제중심학습(Problem Based Learning)을 과학 수업에 적용하기 위한 지도전략과 '문제상황'을 설계하고 이를 적용한 후 학습자의 학습과정과 문제중심학습에 대한 인식을 밝히고자 하였다. 본 연구에서 적용한 문제중심학습의 단계는 문제상황 제시-문제 만나기-알고 있는 것과 알아야 할 것에 대한 확인(Know/Need to Know)-문제의 진술-정보의 수집과 공유-가능한 문제해결책 형성-최적 문제해결책 결정-문제해결책 발표이고, 소집단 토론 전략과 학습자 주도적 문제해결 전략 등의 단계별 지도전략을 설계하였다. '온실효과를 줄이기 위한 미래의 에너지로 무엇이 좋을까?'라는 문제상황으로, 과학고등학교 2학년 지구과학 수업시간에 문제중심학습을 실시하였고, 학습과정과 문제중심학습에 대한 인식을 밝혔다. 연구결과, 문제의 진술 단계에서는 초기에는 광범위한 문제 진술이 많았으나, 토론을 거듭할수록 문제해결책을 찾기 용이한 좁은 범위의 문제 진술로 정교화되었다. 그리고 K/NK단계에서 알고 있는 것과 알아야할 것에 대하여 명료하게 진술하는 활동이 해결책을 찾는 과정에서 학습자에게 가장 도움이 되는 활동으로 분석되었다. 소감문 분석결과 학습자들은 문제상황에서 문제를 찾아내는 과정을 가장 어려워하면서도 또한 흥미있는 활동으로 인식하는 것으로 나타났다. 이러한 연구 결과로부터, 내실있는 문제중심학습의 적용을 위하여, 다각도의 문제인식이 가능한 간학문적이고 현실적인 문제 상황의 개발이 우선되어야함을 알 수 있다.